When NyföretagarCentrums Nyföretagarbarometer (business ranking) revealed their result municipality by municipality it is clear that the tourism regions of Åre and Härjedalen in Jämtland are in top when it comes to newly started companies per capita.
Stockholm tops the list with 16.3 new firms per 1000 inhabitants and is followed by Åre, Danderyd and a rapid climber and a newcomer to the top-ten charts: Härjedalen. The biggest climber on the top-ten charts in addition to Härjedalen is Åre that moved from a 13th place to 2nd place.NyföretagarCentrums Nyföretagarbarometer shows that the number of new businesses increased by 6.5 percent in 2011 compared to 2010. Total number of 69 295 new companies is a new record since Nyföretagarbarometern established in 1991.
Large cities and tourism municipalities
New businesses are growing rapidly in major cities and in tourist municipalities.- It is especially Stockholm, where one of five newly started companies is to be found. Local tourism accounts for only 2.9 percent of the country's new business, but is the reason why municipalities outside the metropolitan areas are growing the fastest, says Mats Evergreen Branch.
- Härjedalen, one of the larger municipalities to the surface with tourist cities such as Vemdalen and Funäsfjällen is growing most rapidly among tourism municipalities and has climbed sharply in the rankings in recent years, continues Mats Evergreen Branch.
Read the full article in Swedish here.
NYFÖRETAGARBAROMETERN 2011
Top 10
Ranking 2011 (2010) / Municipality / New companies per 1000 inhabitants 1 (1) / Stockholm / 16,3
2 (13) / Åre / 11,7
3 (2) / Danderyd / 11,2
4 (31) / Härjedalen / 10,8
5 (8) / Täby / 10,4
6 (3) / Vaxholm / 10,2
7 (8) / Ekerö / 9,9
7 (5) / Lidingö / 9,9
7 (4) / Solna / 9,9
10 (6) / Strömstad / 9,8