Standing view · business · Leicestershire CC and Rutland
rising, held with established confidence, formed on 5 October 2026 from movements in 2026.
Businesses employing 50 to 99 people in Leicestershire CC and Rutland has been rising. The band stood at 360 in 2025 and was recorded as rising against the usual pattern for its year, with businesses employing 0 to 4 people at 25,010 in 2026, also rising. Running the other way, businesses employing 100 to 249 people was 160 in 2025 and 170 in 2026 and businesses employing 5 to 9 people 3,520 in 2025, all falling. There were 32,085 businesses and 36,290 business sites in 2026, and 40 employing 500 to 999 people 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 Leicestershire CC and Rutland. Where no figure supports a direction we hold no view rather than a hedged one.
| Measure | Period | Direction |
|---|---|---|
| Businesses employing 100 to 249 people | 2025 | falling |
| Businesses employing 5 to 9 people | 2025 | falling |
| Businesses employing 50 to 99 people | 2025 | rising |
| Businesses employing 0 to 4 people | 2026 | rising |
| Businesses employing 100 to 249 people | 2026 | falling |
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 500 to 999 people | 2025 | — |
| Businesses | 2026 | — |
| Business sites | 2026 | — |