NZ business intel
Every company on the New Zealand Companies Register, counted and mapped. Who is opening, who is closing, and where the action is, by sector and region.
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Filter live companies by sector, region and company type. Everything in this panel updates together.
Opened vs closed
Companies registered and removed each year since 1990, and the running total of live companies that leaves.
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Where the work is
ANZSIC industry divisions, from each live company's latest industry code. About one in five live companies has no code and sits under Not classified.
Across the map
Region comes from the registered office postcode, which is often an accountant's office rather than where the work happens.
Industries & towns
The 300 most common detailed industries among live companies, and every town or suburb with at least 20 live companies.
Top industries
Towns and suburbs
Insolvency events
Companies entering liquidation, receivership or voluntary administration, by the year it started.
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Other registers
Sole traders, partnerships, trusts, societies and public bodies hold their own registers. These counts sit outside the company numbers above.
Method & privacy
How it was counted
What was left out
Only aggregate counts are published here. No row describes a single company or person.
Director and shareholder files were not used at all. Company names, numbers, NZBNs, street addresses and postcodes were dropped, because many companies are named after the people who run them. Towns with fewer than 20 live companies are not listed.