{ "title": "2025 Federal Incorporation Statistics", "population": 85289, "incorporationYear": 2025, "collectionPeriod": "August 2026", "reportDate": "2026-09-21", "source": "Ribbon Business, Federal Incorporation Statistics, Calendar Year 2025", "reportUrl": "https://resources.ribbonbusiness.com/research/federal-incorporation-statistics-2025/", "scope": "Collected registry data for 85,289 CBCA corporations with 2025 incorporation dates. Not an official national total. Addresses, directors and names reflect the August 2026 collection snapshot.", "charts": { "provinces": { "title": "Ontario accounts for three-quarters of the dataset", "type": "bars", "label": "Province or territory", "note": "Province of the registered office at collection. These counts exclude provincial incorporations.", "complete": true, "highlight": "Ontario", "rows": [ [ "Ontario", 64482 ], [ "Quebec", 7780 ], [ "British Columbia", 4323 ], [ "Alberta", 4024 ], [ "Manitoba", 1489 ], [ "Nova Scotia", 994 ], [ "Saskatchewan", 992 ], [ "New Brunswick", 653 ], [ "Newfoundland and Labrador", 250 ], [ "Prince Edward Island", 219 ], [ "Nunavut", 33 ], [ "Yukon", 28 ], [ "Northwest Territories", 22 ] ], "provinceFlags": true }, "cities": { "title": "Brampton stands out among registered-office locations", "type": "bars", "label": "Registered-office location", "note": "Selected locations. Toronto combines Toronto, Scarborough, North York, Etobicoke, York and East York. Other locations use recorded city labels. This is not a metro-area comparison.", "complete": false, "highlight": "Brampton", "rows": [ [ "Toronto (combined labels)", 15596 ], [ "Brampton", 10870 ], [ "Mississauga", 5334 ], [ "Ottawa", 4604 ], [ "Montr\u00e9al", 2479 ], [ "Calgary", 1954 ], [ "Markham", 1679 ], [ "Kitchener", 1371 ], [ "Oakville", 1369 ], [ "London", 1364 ] ], "reportUrl": "https://resources.ribbonbusiness.com/research/brampton-federal-incorporations-2025/" }, "address-match": { "title": "82.2% share a director and registered-office address", "type": "split", "label": "Address relationship", "note": "At least one director has the same street address and postal code as the registered office. A match does not establish residential use.", "complete": true, "rows": [ [ "Matching director address", 70149 ], [ "No matching director address", 15140 ] ] }, "company-names": { "title": "More than two in five have a numbered name", "type": "columns", "label": "Name classification", "note": "Names at collection, not necessarily names at incorporation. The source classifies 36,776 names as numbered; the remainder is shown as word names.", "complete": true, "rows": [ [ "Numbered names", 36776 ], [ "Word names", 48513 ] ], "axisMax": 60000, "highlight": "Numbered names", "showShares": true }, "months": { "title": "January has the most incorporation dates in this dataset", "type": "columns", "label": "Incorporation month", "note": "Counts by incorporation date in 2025. Months have different lengths. These are not application submissions or processing times.", "complete": true, "highlight": "January", "rows": [ [ "January", 7963 ], [ "February", 6694 ], [ "March", 7485 ], [ "April", 7373 ], [ "May", 7694 ], [ "June", 7287 ], [ "July", 7428 ], [ "August", 6829 ], [ "September", 7223 ], [ "October", 7058 ], [ "November", 6383 ], [ "December", 5872 ] ], "axisMax": 9000, "abbreviateLabels": true }, "directors": { "title": "Three-quarters of corporations list one director", "type": "donut", "label": "Directors per corporation", "complete": true, "highlight": "1 director", "note": "Directors listed at collection, not necessarily at incorporation. Director count does not identify the number of owners or employees. All 85,289 corporations are included.", "rows": [ [ "1 director", 64607 ], [ "2 directors", 15876 ], [ "3 directors", 3313 ], [ "4 directors", 1062 ], [ "5 directors", 263 ], [ "6 directors", 86 ], [ "7 directors", 49 ], [ "8 directors", 13 ], [ "9 directors", 6 ], [ "10 directors", 9 ], [ "11 directors", 1 ], [ "12 directors", 1 ], [ "13 directors", 0 ], [ "14 directors", 2 ], [ "15 directors", 1 ] ], "groups": [ { "label": "1 director", "start": 0, "end": 1 }, { "label": "2 directors", "start": 1, "end": 2 }, { "label": "3 or more directors", "start": 2, "end": 15 } ] }, "foreign-directors": { "title": "Countries in director addresses recorded outside Canada", "type": "bars", "label": "Country or grouping", "complete": true, "highlight": "United States", "denominator": 2225, "unit": "Director-address records", "denominatorLabel": "director-address records outside Canada", "scope": "2,225 director-address records outside Canada, across 1,594 corporations", "note": "Percentages are calculated from the 2,225 recorded director addresses outside Canada. Directors living abroad may use a Canadian address for service and are not captured here. These counts do not measure residence, nationality or ownership.", "rows": [ [ "United States", 684 ], [ "India", 248 ], [ "Nigeria", 143 ], [ "United Kingdom", 132 ], [ "Pakistan", 119 ], [ "China", 103 ], [ "Iran", 95 ], [ "United Arab Emirates", 52 ], [ "France", 47 ], [ "All other countries / territories", 602 ] ], "countryFlags": true }, "weekdays": { "title": "Tuesday leads after adjusting for the calendar", "type": "dots", "label": "Day of the week", "complete": true, "highlight": "Tuesday", "averagePerOccurrence": true, "note": "Wednesday has the highest annual total (15,518), but 2025 had 53 Wednesdays. Tuesday has the highest average per occurrence (295.0). Incorporation dates are not submission or processing timestamps.", "rows": [ [ "Monday", 14920, 52 ], [ "Tuesday", 15338, 52 ], [ "Wednesday", 15518, 53 ], [ "Thursday", 14532, 52 ], [ "Friday", 13220, 52 ], [ "Saturday", 6222, 52 ], [ "Sunday", 5539, 52 ] ], "axisMax": 320, "axisTicks": [ 0, 100, 200, 300 ] }, "brampton-postal-areas": { "title": "The five leading postal areas are in Brampton", "type": "columns", "label": "Forward sortation area", "complete": false, "highlight": "L7A", "reportUrl": "https://resources.ribbonbusiness.com/research/brampton-federal-incorporations-2025/", "note": "Grouped by the first three postal-code characters across the full dataset. Postal areas and recorded city labels are separate groupings; a small number of these records use another city label.", "rows": [ [ "L7A", 2180 ], [ "L6R", 1735 ], [ "L6Y", 1549 ], [ "L6P", 1471 ], [ "L6X", 1356 ] ], "axisMax": 2600 }, "legal-endings": { "title": "Inc. is the most common final legal identifier", "type": "bars", "label": "Final legal identifier", "note": "Final legal elements in names recorded at collection. Case and trailing periods are normalized; full words and abbreviations remain separate. Unmatched endings are not a finding of non-compliance.", "complete": true, "highlight": "Inc.", "rows": [ [ "Inc.", 70736 ], [ "Ltd.", 6611 ], [ "Corp.", 3680 ], [ "Corporation", 1870 ], [ "Limited", 1375 ], [ "Incorporated", 878 ], [ "Lt\u00e9e", 58 ], [ "Limit\u00e9e", 15 ], [ "Incorpor\u00e9e", 10 ], [ "S.A.R.F.", 5 ], [ "Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 par actions de r\u00e9gime f\u00e9d\u00e9ral", 4 ], [ "Other / unclassified ending", 47 ] ] }, "brampton-company-names": { "title": "Two-thirds of Brampton records have numbered names", "type": "columns", "label": "Name classification", "denominator": 10870, "denominatorLabel": "corporations with a Brampton registered office", "scope": "10,870 federal corporations incorporated in 2025 with a Brampton office", "axisMax": 9000, "showShares": true, "highlight": "Numbered names", "complete": true, "reportUrl": "https://resources.ribbonbusiness.com/research/brampton-federal-incorporations-2025/", "note": "Names at the August 2026 collection snapshot. Numbered names begin with a digit; the remaining names are classified as word names.", "rows": [ [ "Numbered names", 7190 ], [ "Word names", 3680 ] ] } }, "verification": { "date": "2026-09-22", "method": "Aggregate findings checked against the original collected registry records", "directorRecords": 113034, "registeredOfficesOutsideCanada": 0, "corrections": [ "Added two corporations with 14 directors and one with 15, omitted from the original report table.", "Toronto aggregation includes York and East York in addition to Toronto, Scarborough, North York and Etobicoke." ], "directorAddressRecordsOutsideCanada": 2225, "corporationsWithDirectorAddressOutsideCanada": 1594 }, "bramptonAddressStrings": 9497, "bramptonNameComparison": { "bramptonPopulation": 10870, "otherPopulation": 74419, "numberedBrampton": 7190, "numberedOther": 29586, "themes": [ { "label": "Consulting", "terms": [ "consult" ], "brampton": 115, "other": 2039 }, { "label": "Transport and logistics", "terms": [ "truck", "logistic", "transport", "carrier", "freight" ], "brampton": 510, "other": 1436 }, { "label": "Construction and renovation", "terms": [ "construction", "renovat", "contract" ], "brampton": 171, "other": 1154 }, { "label": "Health and care", "terms": [ "health", "care", "clinic" ], "brampton": 86, "other": 1122 }, { "label": "Property and real estate", "terms": [ "realty", "property", "real estate" ], "brampton": 36, "other": 350 } ] } }