Standing view · business · Hinckley and Bosworth
deteriorating, held with strong confidence, formed on 5 October 2026 from movements in 2026-06.
The business base in Hinckley and Bosworth has been shrinking, and the view is held strongly. Business births were 125 in the quarter to June 2025, 90 in the quarter to September 2025 and 85 in the quarter to December 2025, each recorded as unfavourable against the usual pattern for its quarter, with business deaths of 115 in the quarter to June 2025 also unfavourable. The quarter to March 2025 at 145 births was favourable. In 2025 there were 505 businesses employing 5 to 9 people, 230 employing 10 to 19 people and 145 employing 20 to 49 people. Three consecutive weak registration quarters.
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 Hinckley and Bosworth. Where no figure supports a direction we hold no view rather than a hedged one.
| Measure | Period | Direction |
|---|---|---|
| Business births | 2025-03 | improving |
| Business births | 2025-06 | deteriorating |
| Business deaths | 2025-06 | deteriorating |
| Business births | 2025-09 | deteriorating |
| Business births | 2025-12 | deteriorating |
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 employing 10 to 19 people | 2025 | — |
| Businesses employing 20 to 49 people | 2025 | rising |
| Businesses employing 5 to 9 people | 2025 | falling |