UK Companies House Data — Enriched (Region, Council, Size, Risk Signals)

Every live UK company on the official Companies House register (~5.7 million companies), filtered the way you actually prospect and research — and enriched on every row with fields the register itself does not give you:

Enrichment (every row, no extra cost)	Where it comes from
ONS region, local authority (+ GSS code), ward, parliamentary constituency, rural/urban class, latitude/longitude	Registered-office postcode matched against the official ONS postcode directory
Industry section (A–U, e.g. "Construction") from the up-to-4 SIC codes	ONS UK SIC 2007 structure
Size band — micro / small / medium / large-or-group / dormant / no-accounts-yet	The accounts category each company last filed
Company age in days, years and bands (0–30 days … 10+ years)	Incorporation date
Compliance & risk signals — accounts overdue, confirmation statement overdue, days until next filing, outstanding secured charges, proposal to strike off, insolvency/administration, renamed in last 12 months	Register filing dates, charge counts and status
Formation-agent / virtual-office detection — how many companies share the registered postcode (e.g. EC1V 2NX hosts ~72,000)	Computed across the whole register
Jurisdiction — England & Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, overseas entity	Company-number prefix
A plain-English signals column, e.g. new company (<90 days); accounts overdue; outstanding secured charges	All of the above

Optional live check: add your own free Companies House API key and the first N rows are re-checked against the live register (current status, insolvency history, charges, overdue flags, disputed or undeliverable registered office, last accounts, latest filing).

Company-level data only. No directors, officers, persons with significant control (PSC), emails, phone numbers or any other personal data. The "care of" name in the registered address is deliberately dropped.

Pricing: $1.50 per 1,000 companies, enrichment included

You pay $0.0015 per company returned, which is $1.50 per 1,000. Every row includes all of the enrichment above at no extra cost.

	This Actor	Raw snapshot exports on the Store	Live-API scrapers
Price per 1,000 companies	$1.50	about $1.40–$1.50	about $3–$11
ONS region, council, ward, constituency, lat/long	✅	❌	❌
Industry section, size band, company age	✅	❌	partial
Overdue / charges / strike-off / insolvency flags + signals	✅	❌	partial
Virtual-office / formation-agent detection and filter	✅	❌	❌
Filter by ONS region/council, size band, overdue filings, charges	✅	❌	❌
Optional live check with your own free API key	✅	❌	✅
Personal data (directors, PSC, emails)	none, by design	none	often

You get the same per-row price as a raw dump, with about 30 extra columns per row. Because filtering happens before anything is charged, you pay only for the companies that match. Set maxItems or a maximum total charge to cap spend. Example: 2,000 new construction companies in the North West cost $3.00.

Why this Actor instead of a raw Companies House export

• Filter by what matters: region, council, industry section, size band, overdue filings, secured charges, "exclude virtual offices", alongside SIC code, incorporation date, postcode, status, type and name.
• Accurate geography: the register's own address county/country is free text and blank for ~900k companies; we resolve region and council from the postcode using official ONS data, so "all construction companies in Leeds" actually works.
• Lead lists without the noise: turn on Exclude formation-agent / virtual-office addresses to drop the hundreds of thousands of companies registered at accountants' and virtual-office addresses.
• Risk at a glance: overdue accounts, outstanding charges, strike-off proposals and insolvency in one filterable table, with no extra API calls.
• Official sources only: Companies House monthly snapshot (https://download.companieshouse.gov.uk/en_output.html) plus the ONS postcode directory. No website scraping and no proxies. An API key is only needed for the optional live check.
• Fast and reliable: the ~470 MB of official ZIPs are streamed and filtered row by row. A full-register scan with enrichment takes about 1 minute at ~250 MB RAM. Downloads that drop are resumed.
• Monthly new-company lists: turn on onlyNew and schedule monthly to receive only companies you have not had before for the same filters.

Typical uses

• New-business prospecting: e.g. construction (section F) companies in the North West incorporated in the last 90 days, excluding virtual offices
• Territory planning: every small/medium manufacturer by council, with lat/long ready for a map
• Credit and risk screening: companies with accounts overdue or outstanding charges in your region
• Market sizing: count companies by industry section × region × size band
• Accountants and compliance services: companies whose accounts or confirmation statement are overdue or due soon (daysUntilAccountsDue)

Input

Field	Example	Notes
sicSections	["F"]	Industry sections A–U
sicCodes	["62012"], ["41","43"]	Prefix match against any of the up to 4 SIC codes
sizeBands	["small","medium"]	From the accounts category filed
excludeDormant	true	Drops dormant companies
incorporatedWithinDays	90	Rolling window from run date
incorporatedFrom / incorporatedTo	2026-01-01	Absolute dates
companyStatuses / companyCategories / nameContains	["Active"]	Exact or substring, case-insensitive
regions	["North West","Scotland"]	ONS regions and nations
localAuthorities	["Manchester","Leeds"]	ONS local authority names
postcodePrefixes	["BS"], ["M1 "]	Add a space after the outward code to be exact
excludeSharedOffices	true	Drops postcodes hosting 250+ companies
overdueFilter	"either"	any, accounts, confirmationStatement, either or none
chargesFilter	"outstanding"	any, outstanding or none
maxItems	100	Run stops when reached
onlyNew	false	Skip companies already delivered for the same filters
geoEnrich	true	Exact ONS geography per postcode (default on)
companiesHouseApiKey	(secret)	Optional. Free key from developer.company-information.service.gov.uk
liveCheckMaxItems	100	Cap on live checks (about 250 companies per 4.5 min under the official rate limit)

Example: established construction firms in Greater Manchester councils with secured charges, no virtual offices:

{
  "sicSections": ["F"],
  "localAuthorities": ["Manchester", "Salford", "Trafford", "Stockport"],
  "sizeBands": ["small", "medium", "large-or-group"],
  "chargesFilter": "outstanding",
  "excludeSharedOffices": true,
  "maxItems": 1000
}

Output (one row per company)

Dataset views: Enriched overview, Geography (map-ready), Live check and the original Overview. Export to CSV, Excel, JSON or Google Sheets.

Sample row (abridged):

{
  "companyNumber": "06930633",
  "companyName": "100 PERCENT GROUP LIMITED",
  "companyStatus": "Active",
  "incorporationDate": "2009-06-11",
  "companyAgeYears": 17.3,
  "companyAgeBand": "10+ years",
  "sicCode1": "43999",
  "sicDescription1": "Other specialised construction activities n.e.c.",
  "sicSection": "F",
  "sicSectionName": "Construction",
  "accountsCategory": "MEDIUM",
  "sizeBand": "medium",
  "accountsNextDueDate": "2026-09-30",
  "accountsOverdue": true,
  "confirmationStatementOverdue": false,
  "daysUntilAccountsDue": -31,
  "mortgageChargesOutstanding": 1,
  "hasOutstandingCharges": true,
  "regAddressPostcode": "M41 7LY",
  "companiesAtRegisteredPostcode": null,
  "sharedRegisteredOffice": false,
  "region": "North West",
  "localAuthority": "Trafford",
  "localAuthorityCode": "E08000009",
  "ward": "Lostock & Barton",
  "parliamentaryConstituency": "Stretford and Urmston",
  "ruralUrbanClass": "Urban: Nearer to a major town or city",
  "latitude": 53.46535,
  "longitude": -2.333573,
  "signals": "accounts overdue; outstanding secured charges",
  "companiesHouseUrl": "https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/06930633",
  "snapshotDate": "2026-10-01"
}

All fields: the official register columns (companyNumber, companyName, companyStatus, companyCategory, incorporationDate, sicCode1..4 + descriptions, registered address, accounts and confirmation-statement dates, mortgage charge counts, previous names, companiesHouseUrl) plus the enrichment columns registeredJurisdiction, companyAgeDays, companyAgeYears, companyAgeBand, sicSection, sicSectionName, sicSections, sizeBand, isDormant, accountsOverdue, confirmationStatementOverdue, daysUntilAccountsDue, daysUntilConfirmationStatementDue, hasOutstandingCharges, proposalToStrikeOff, inInsolvencyProcess, renamedInLast12Months, postcodeOutward, postcodeArea, companiesAtRegisteredPostcode, sharedRegisteredOffice, signals, signalCount, region, localAuthority, localAuthorityCode, ward, parliamentaryConstituency, ruralUrbanClass, latitude, longitude, geoSource. When an API key is set, the live* and latestFiling* columns are added as well.

A RUN_SUMMARY record reports rows scanned, rows output, enrichment counts and timings.

How the enrichment is calculated

• Overdue flags compare the register's next-due dates with the snapshot date (the data is compiled to the previous month end). daysUntil…Due counts from the day you run the Actor. Use the live check for up-to-the-day status.
• Size band is a proxy based on the accounts regime the company chose. It is not a turnover or headcount figure.
• Geography uses the current ONS postcode directory. About 0.5% of register postcodes are retired or mistyped. Those rows fall back to the outcode-level region/council, and geoSource says which method was used.
• Shared-office counts are rebuilt from the full register. companiesAtRegisteredPostcode is filled when 100+ companies share the postcode, and sharedRegisteredOffice is true at 250+.

Data freshness and limits

• Companies House publishes the snapshot within 5 working days of each month end. It covers live companies compiled to the end of the previous month, and dissolved companies are not included. For same-day changes, use the optional live check or follow companiesHouseUrl.
• Files are ordered alphabetically by company name, so a selective filter scans the whole register (about 1–3 minutes). Broad filters stop early at maxItems.
• Addresses are as filed by the company. Companies House does not verify them.

Source and reuse

Source: Companies House — Free Company Data Product, https://download.companieshouse.gov.uk/en_output.html. Optional live check: Companies House Public Data API (company profile and filing history endpoints only).

Geography: ONS postcode directory via postcodes.io, released under the Open Government Licence. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right. Contains Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right. Contains National Statistics data © Crown copyright and database right.

Companies House states that it makes public-register information available under s.47 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 and Schedule 1 of the Database Regulations (SI 1997/3032) and "imposes no rules or requirements on how the information on the public register is used" (GOV.UK). The Companies House snapshot is not released under the Open Government Licence. You are responsible for complying with data protection (UK GDPR), copyright and other applicable law when you use the data — e.g. direct-marketing rules (PECR) for any outreach. This Actor is independent and not affiliated with or endorsed by Companies House.