NACE C

Manufacturing: ranking by local authority

Manufacturing: 138,285 business sites, or 4.3% of the UK total. Birmingham comes top.

Ranking by number of business sites

#	Local authority	Business sites	Share
1	Birmingham	2,025	4.4%
2	North Yorkshire	1,710	4.6%
3	Leeds	1,530	4.3%
4	Somerset	1,475	5.2%
5	Buckinghamshire	1,405	4.1%
6	Cornwall	1,400	4.7%
7	Kirklees	1,395	7.9%
8	Bradford	1,240	6.3%
9	Dorset	1,235	6.0%
10	Sheffield	1,210	5.8%
11	Wiltshire	1,160	4.6%
12	Leicester	1,015	6.4%
13	County Durham	1,010	5.6%
14	Sandwell	1,000	8.2%
15	West Northamptonshire	970	4.4%
16	Dudley	970	8.3%
17	Cheshire East	965	4.3%
18	North Northamptonshire	950	5.6%
19	Westminster	950	1.5%
20	Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole	905	4.9%
21	Camden	900	2.1%
22	Glasgow City	895	3.4%
23	East Riding of Yorkshire	875	5.4%
24	Shropshire	860	4.8%
25	Mid Ulster	845	7.7%
26	Bristol, City of	815	3.7%
27	Aberdeenshire	815	5.7%
28	Manchester	780	2.6%
29	Wakefield	780	6.2%
30	Walsall	740	7.5%
31	Central Bedfordshire	710	5.1%
32	Calderdale	690	7.5%
33	Ealing	680	3.4%
34	Hackney	680	2.5%
35	Herefordshire, County of	670	5.5%
36	Rotherham	660	7.1%
37	Cheshire West and Chester	655	4.0%
38	Bolton	650	5.2%
39	Islington	640	2.4%
40	Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon	640	5.8%
41	Kingston upon Hull, City of	625	7.1%
42	Stockport	620	4.4%
43	Highland	615	4.4%
44	Northumberland	610	4.4%
45	Coventry	605	5.1%
46	Wolverhampton	605	6.2%
47	Westmorland and Furness	600	4.5%
48	South Lanarkshire	595	5.2%
49	City of Edinburgh	590	2.5%
50	Stoke-on-Trent	585	6.9%

#	Local authority	Business sites	Share
1	Erewash	375	8.8%
2	Dudley	970	8.3%
3	Sandwell	1,000	8.2%
4	Kirklees	1,395	7.9%
5	Ashfield	300	7.9%
6	Hinckley and Bosworth	395	7.7%
7	Mid Ulster	845	7.7%
8	Calderdale	690	7.5%
9	Walsall	740	7.5%
10	Blackburn with Darwen	485	7.4%
11	Rotherham	660	7.1%
12	Kingston upon Hull, City of	625	7.1%
13	Nuneaton and Bedworth	305	7.0%
14	Bassetlaw	360	6.9%
15	Stoke-on-Trent	585	6.9%
16	Tameside	525	6.9%
17	Telford and Wrekin	495	6.9%
18	Halton	310	6.9%
19	Amber Valley	360	6.8%
20	Caerphilly	340	6.7%
21	West Lancashire	335	6.5%
22	Flintshire	400	6.5%
23	Leicester	1,015	6.4%
24	Isle of Wight	360	6.4%
25	Wrexham	325	6.3%
26	Bradford	1,240	6.3%
27	Breckland	390	6.3%
28	Knowsley	270	6.2%
29	Bridgend	300	6.2%
30	Neath Port Talbot	245	6.2%