Standing view · business · Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire
falling, held with strong confidence, formed on 5 October 2026 from movements in 2026.
Businesses employing 20 to 49 people in Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire has been falling, and the view is held strongly. The band stood at 2,575 in 2026, recorded as falling against the usual pattern for its year, with businesses employing 250 to 499 people at 155 in 2025 and 150 in 2026, falling in both. Businesses employing 50 to 99 people went the other way at 895 in 2026, rising. There were 73,695 businesses in 2025, 56,400 of them employing 0 to 4 people, 95 employing 500 to 999 people in 2026, and 87,515 business sites in 2025.
A view is formed only where the evidence names a figure you can check. Each movement listed as a reason had to be large enough to matter and distinctive in at least one way — unusual against this area's own history, unusual against comparable areas, or sustained over several periods. A movement shared with peers counts for less, because it says something about the country rather than about Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire. Where no figure supports a direction we hold no view rather than a hedged one.
| Measure | Period | Direction |
|---|---|---|
| Businesses employing 250 to 499 people | 2025 | falling |
| Businesses employing 20 to 49 people | 2026 | falling |
| Businesses employing 250 to 499 people | 2026 | falling |
| Businesses employing 50 to 99 people | 2026 | rising |
These figures carry no defensible direction of their own: a rising house price is good news to an owner and bad news to someone trying to buy, so we do not score one as an improvement. They are shown because they are part of the picture, and they did not decide the view above.
| Measure | Period | Series |
|---|---|---|
| Businesses | 2025 | — |
| Businesses employing 0 to 4 people | 2025 | — |
| Business sites | 2025 | — |
| Businesses employing 500 to 999 people | 2026 | — |