The following table records the number of trading-related bankruptcies in each London borough derived from postcodes provided by bankrupt individuals.
2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 (January to June)1 London borough No. % No. % No. % No. % No. % No. % No. % Barking and Dagenham 19 39 21 47 9 23 18 22 12 14 9 7 11 11 Barnet 39 59 48 56 40 47 40 4.3 50 37 70 33 38 31 Bexley 30 48 26 38 14 21 23 26 32 27 49 28 9 11 Brent 27 49 29 50 17 36 28 41 25 27 46 41 29 31 Bromley 32 53 44 57 29 45 25 31 42 34 61 28 21 15 Camden 16 38 22 33 22 44 36 34 47 33 67 33 41 32 City and county of the City of London 3 43 1 100 1 50 4 80 4 67 5 71 2 33 City of Westminster 22 38 30 48 25 30 32 32 42 34 57 34 29 30 Croydon 35 49 35 46 30 35 26 27 36 26 53 26 15 10 Ealing 26 45 25 58 23 42 28 38 34 31 65 42 36 36 Enfield 33 62 42 59 24 36 35 46 50 42 34 28 38 41 Greenwich 27 47 23 48 18 23 23 26 22 18 36 19 14 11 Hackney 17 59 21 47 20 34 42 55 35 27 47 24 28 19 Hammersmith and Fulham 14 47 21 58 16 31 19 42 33 34 49 37 18 27 Haringey 27 52 18 46 23 43 19 31 31 27 46 34 40 33 Harrow 26 52 32 57 20 40 19 35 25 39 38 39 26 39 Havering 26 42 17 30 15 31 28 31 25 27 20 12 8 9 Hillingdon 35 51 20 41 20 43 27 36 30 36 39 24 22 19 Hounslow 26 63 28 46 14 32 22 35 45 38 62 41 41 37 Islington 20 43 22 49 33 49 23 30 46 32 54 27 30 27 Kensington and Chelsea 24 45 30 52 20 33 24 29 28 22 37 25 25 27 Kingston upon Thames 22 52 11 48 19 35 17 37 22 28 30 34 14 21 Lambeth 27 48 35 48 39 41 34 22 72 19 88 22 45 28 Lewisham 31 53 25 42 17 33 11 16 19 17 49 27 16 12 Merton 15 37 11 31 17 40 20 31 26 29 31 29 8 16 Newham 32 60 19 50 13 21 28 29 36 32 37 25 34 28 Redbridge 17 40 30 48 17 33 18 25 17 18 24 17 18 18 Richmond upon Thames 21 64 28 62 34 52 25 39 39 48 39 38 27 38 Southwark 25 71 29 54 29 42 31 29 52 29 63 26 48 36 Sutton 21 68 20 49 18 31 20 34 29 30 29 23 20 21 Tower Hamlets 31 35 20 26 27 26 20 15 32 19 53 25 34 27 Waltham Forest 22 49 28 58 11 35 22 40 29 30 51 38 27 27 Wandsworth 27 54 31 54 19 40 34 39 39 42 53 38 35 41 Total London boroughs 815 49 842 48 693 36 821 32 1,106 29 1,491 28 847 25 Total England and Wales 8,466 45 8,841 42 7,918 36 8,432 32 8,825 26 10,347 23 6,056 20 1 The Insolvency Trade Classification (ITC) was used to classify trading-related bankruptcies (and company liquidations) until end September 2006. However, only the period from January to June 2006 is provided because of the way the data are held. Notes: 1. Figures for 2007 are not yet available for London boroughs. 2. Classifying bankrupts into geographic areas is done using the postcode that the bankrupt individual provides. The use of this in assigning an individual to a borough is thus as reliable as the postcode information provided, which is subject to an element of missing or unusable data. Nationally, this has been decreasing from around 12 per cent. in 2000 to 4 per cent. in 2006. 3. Figures for England and Wales provided here for comparative purposes are not consistent with published annual totals for the reasons given above.