The Datum Report

Standing view · business · Nuneaton and Bedworth

Businesses employing 0 to 4 people in Nuneaton and Bedworth has been rising, though other measures here have run the other way.

mixed, held with tentative confidence, formed on 5 October 2026 from movements in 2026-06.

Businesses employing 0 to 4 people in Nuneaton and Bedworth has been rising, though other measures here have run the other way. The band stood at 2,860 in 2026, with 3,645 businesses in total, 220 employing 10 to 19 people, and business sites at 4,250 in 2025 and 4,370 in 2026. Registrations were weak: business births were 110 in the quarter to June 2025 and 85 in the quarter to September 2025, both recorded as unfavourable against the usual pattern for their quarter, while business deaths of 95 in the quarter to June 2026 was favourable.

How this was decided

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 Nuneaton and Bedworth. Where no figure supports a direction we hold no view rather than a hedged one.

The 3 measures that formed this view

MeasurePeriodDirection
Business births2025-06deteriorating
Business births2025-09deteriorating
Business deaths2026-06improving

Also published on this topic, but not counted

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.

MeasurePeriodSeries
Business sites2025 —
Businesses2026 —
Businesses employing 0 to 4 people2026 rising
Businesses employing 10 to 19 people2026 —
Business sites2026 —