Soundings — Regional Maps

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UK

Regional Creative Economy

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Regions & areas
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Overview
Subsectors
Size & scale
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Subsectors all / none
Size of business
Size tier from the latest Companies House accounts category — micro-entity, small-company and full/group (“sector primes”) filings.
District all / none
Postcode districts over-approximate at region edges; companies geocoded to a neighbouring authority appear under “Fringe”.
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Soundings — a living evidence base for regional economies. This viewer covers every Soundings region — the North West sub-regions plus the areas added on request; more are added as asked. (The North West flagship map additionally carries the curated venues, festivals and institutions layer.) Registered companies: Companies House bulk register (July 2026), postcode centroids via postcodes.io (OGL). Positions are registered-office postcode centroids — claimed, not verified. Sector lens: Soundings operational taxonomy over UK SIC 2007.