UK report /South West /Cirencester
DueLead Pulse · Q3 2026

Cirencester business borrowing report

15.5% of Cirencester's 2,430 trading companies have secured borrowing (377 businesses), above the South West at 15.4%.

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

South West
15.4%
274,754 companies · 5th of 12
12.3%17.4%
2.4k
Trading companies
2,430
15.5%
With secured borrowing
+0.1 pts vs region
818
Live charges registered
2.2 per borrower
53
New companies in Q3 2026
still trading at quarter end
3.2%
Late filing accounts
78 companies
In brief

What the data says

01Real estate & lettings is the most secured-borrowing sector here: 44% of its 231 companies have a lender's charge.
0253 new companies started in Cirencester in Q3 2026, and 78 (3.2%) are late filing accounts.
Who borrows

Bigger and older companies borrow more

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

By company size

Dashed line: South West overall

Micro
12.4%
Small
20.0%
Medium & large
56.6%
No accounts yet
3.3%

By company age

Dashed line: South West overall

0-2 years
3.1%
2-5 years
7.0%
5-10 years
15.1%
10-20 years
16.5%
20+ years
38.2%
By sector

Where secured lending is concentrated

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

Real estate & lettings
44.2%
Retail
15.3%
Manufacturing
13.6%
Construction & trades
12.7%
Business support services
9.7%
Restaurants, pubs & cafes
9.6%
Tech, media & telecoms
8.3%
Professional services
6.4%
Share with secured borrowingAll sectors in Cirencester (15.5%)
Town reports

Other towns in the South West

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

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