UK report /London /Mitcham
DueLead Pulse · Q3 2026

Mitcham business borrowing report

9.9% of Mitcham's 3,617 trading companies have secured borrowing (359 businesses), below London at 12.3%.

Covers 2026-07-01 to 2026-09-30 · Companies House file of 2026-10-01 · Free to cite with a link

Share of trading companies with secured borrowing

London
12.3%
1,216,366 companies · 12th of 12
12.3%17.4%
3.6k
Trading companies
3,617
9.9%
With secured borrowing
-2.4 pts vs region
874
Live charges registered
2.4 per borrower
229
New companies in Q3 2026
still trading at quarter end
4.2%
Late filing accounts
151 companies
In brief

What the data says

01Real estate & lettings is the most secured-borrowing sector here: 47% of its 541 companies have a lender's charge.
02229 new companies started in Mitcham in Q3 2026, and 151 (4.2%) are late filing accounts.
Who borrows

Bigger and older companies borrow more

Share of trading companies in Mitcham with at least one outstanding charge, by size (from the accounts they file) and by age.

By company size

Dashed line: London overall

Micro
10.7%
Small
19.2%
Medium & large
53.3%
No accounts yet
3.2%

By company age

Dashed line: London overall

0-2 years
3.2%
2-5 years
12.4%
5-10 years
13.7%
10-20 years
11.0%
20+ years
41.7%
By sector

Where secured lending is concentrated

The largest sectors in Mitcham, ranked by the share of companies with a lender's charge.

Real estate & lettings
46.6%
Restaurants, pubs & cafes
4.9%
Construction & trades
2.7%
Retail
2.1%
Business support services
2.1%
Haulage & logistics
1.7%
Tech, media & telecoms
1.3%
Professional services
1.1%
Share with secured borrowingAll sectors in Mitcham (9.9%)
Town reports

Other towns in London

Every town with at least 2,000 trading companies registered there.

For commercial finance brokers

Turn this into conversations

DueLead watches every Companies House filing and flags the Mitcham companies showing signs they need finance: new charges, refinance windows, changes of owner, cash squeezes. Scored and delivered every morning.

Start your 7-day free trial →
How we built this report

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. You're welcome to quote and chart these figures with a link to this page.