Where India’s companies are registered: state by state and city by city, from the MCA register

India has one national company register, kept by the Ministry of Corporate Affairs, and every company and LLP on it belongs to exactly one state: the state of its registered office. That single fact decides which Registrar of Companies handles its filings, which state’s stamp duty applied when it was incorporated, and where a summons or a notice is served. This report reads the register state by state and city by city.

All figures are computed from the Ministry’s company master as imported by SimplySetup; the newest incorporation in the data is dated 2 June 2026. Counts include every entity with a CIN or LLPIN, and the Active column removes those struck off, dissolved, dormant or under liquidation.

Key figures

• 3,409,729 companies and LLPs on the register, of which 2,411,247 (71%) are active. 510,043 are LLPs.
• Maharashtra has the most registered offices: 755,653, or 22% of the register.
• 317,437 entities were incorporated in the twelve months to June 2026. The five busiest states for new incorporations: Maharashtra (66,179), Uttar Pradesh (35,199), Delhi (28,423), Karnataka (26,455), Gujarat (25,033) — together 57% of the year’s total.
• This edition covers 21 states and union territories.

Not yet in this edition (the Ministry’s file for these was unavailable at import): Himachal Pradesh, Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura, Meghalaya, Chhattisgarh, Dadra & Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu, Goa, Lakshadweep, Puducherry, Telangana, Ladakh. They are added as the files are released; totals and shares are for the states listed.

Companies and LLPs by state

Ranked by total registered offices. The last column is each state’s share of incorporations in the past twelve months — where founders are registering now, as opposed to where the stock of companies sits. Click a state for its virtual office explainer and GST facts.

Where new companies went in the last twelve months

The stock of companies is dominated by the old commercial capitals; the flow of new incorporations is more spread out. Maharashtra (66,179), Uttar Pradesh (35,199), Delhi (28,423), Karnataka (26,455), Gujarat (25,033) lead the year. A state that is high on new incorporations but lower on total stock is one where a first-time founder is in the majority — which is exactly where a registered-office kit and a clean name check save the most trouble.

Registered offices in the cities where SimplySetup lists addresses

Matched on the city element of the registered office address, so these are lower bounds: an address written as a suburb, a district or an industrial estate is not counted against the city. Each city links to its live virtual office listings.

What kind of companies they are

By class on the register:

• Private: 2,661,710 (78.1%)
• LLP: 510,043 (15%)
• Public: 144,096 (4.2%)
• One Person Company: 88,611 (2.6%)

The private limited company remains the default vehicle; one person companies are a small share, and LLPs are counted separately. Public companies are a rounding error by count but not by size.

By principal activity (top twelve, as classified on the register):

1. Business Services — 835,755
2. Trading — 497,807
3. Community, personal and Social Services — 476,051
4. Construction — 261,613
5. Manufacturing (Metals and Chemicals, and products thereof) — 210,012
6. Real Estate and Renting — 202,352
7. Finance — 154,809
8. Manufacturing (Machinery and Equipments) — 147,235
9. Transport, storage and Communications — 138,382
10. Agriculture and Allied Activities — 122,473
11. Manufacturing (Food stuffs) — 100,904
12. Manufacturing (Textiles) — 78,974

Incorporations by year

Entities on the register today by year of incorporation. Earlier years are thinned by strike-offs, so the table understates how many companies were formed in a given year and overstates the recent tilt; it is still the best public picture of when India’s live companies were born.

What the registered office actually decides

Under Section 12 of the Companies Act 2013 a company must have a registered office capable of receiving communications within thirty days of incorporation, and must file any change in FORM INC-22 within thirty days. The office fixes three things: the Registrar of Companies that processes every filing, the state stamp duty on the memorandum, articles and the SPICe+ form, and the place of service for notices and summons. It does not fix where the company pays GST, which is registered state by state on its own, and it does not stop the company operating anywhere else.

That is why a registered office can be a virtual office: the law asks for premises that can receive post and a visit, with a rent or lease agreement, the owner’s no-objection certificate and a utility bill not older than two months (Companies (Incorporation) Rules 2014, Rule 25). The registered office guide covers the difference from a corporate office and a branch.

Using this when you choose a name or a state

Every entity in these counts holds a name, and the Registrar refuses a new name that is identical to or too nearly resembles any of them, including struck-off names for two years. Check yours against the same register with the company name availability check before paying the reservation fee. If you are choosing a state for the registered office, the state table shows GST codes and our address counts, and each state’s explainer shows the GST facts that follow from an address there.

Method and caveats

1. Source. Ministry of Corporate Affairs company master, published on data.gov.in as one file per state and union territory, imported in full.
2. Counting. One row per CIN or LLPIN. State is the register’s own state field. Active means status “Active”; every other status (strike off, under process of striking off, dormant, under liquidation, amalgamated, dissolved) is counted in the total but not as active.
3. Last twelve months. Incorporation dates in the twelve months ending on the newest incorporation date in the data.
4. Cities. Parsed from the registered office address (the element before the district), matched with aliases to the cities SimplySetup lists; undercounts where the address names a locality instead.
5. Refresh. Recomputed after each import of a new Ministry release; the data date is printed with the tables.
6. Limits. The register records where companies are registered, not where they operate or how large they are. Address fields are free text and occasionally blank.

Figures as of 2 June 2026.

What to do next

If you are about to incorporate, check the name first, then decide the registered office state with the stamp duty and the GST facts side by side rather than defaulting to your home city. If you already have a company and need a presence in one of the states above, that is a GST registration with a place of business there, not a change of registered office; the second-state checklist walks through it. And if you want the registered office and the name application handled together, the Company Registration package does both.