John Korchak, operations director at Inform Direct which compiled the new business figures based on data from Companies House and the Office for National Statistics.
A RECORD number of businesses have been set up in York and North Yorkshire during the past year.
Latest figures show that 8,200 new companies were registered in 2020, compared to 7,260 during 2019 - an increase of 12.9 per cent.
This was a new record high for the third year in a row, bringing the total number of registered companies in North Yorkshire to 58,526, up from 54,481 at the end of 2019, a 7.4 per cent growth.
During the same period, 4,289 companies in North Yorkshire were dissolved.