Standing view · business · North Nottinghamshire
falling, held with strong confidence, formed on 5 October 2026 from movements in 2026.
Businesses employing 10 to 19 people in North Nottinghamshire has been falling, and the view is held strongly. The band stood at 935 in 2025, recorded as falling against the usual pattern for its year, with businesses employing 5 to 9 people at 1,915 in 2025 and 1,900 in 2026, also falling in both. There were 15,375 businesses in 2026, with 150 employing 50 to 99 people and 18,575 business sites in 2024, and 18,410 business sites in 2026. Three falling readings across two consecutive years, with the site count edging down too.
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 North Nottinghamshire. Where no figure supports a direction we hold no view rather than a hedged one.
| Measure | Period | Direction |
|---|---|---|
| Businesses employing 10 to 19 people | 2025 | falling |
| Businesses employing 5 to 9 people | 2025 | falling |
| Businesses employing 5 to 9 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 50 to 99 people | 2024 | — |
| Business sites | 2024 | — |
| Businesses | 2026 | — |
| Business sites | 2026 | — |