Around 1.5 companies per 1,000 inhabitants were founded in the first half of 2023. The highest number of start-ups were set up in central Hamburg at a rate of 4.2 and accounting for a rise of over 60 per cent in just one year. The suburbs of Harburg and Eimsbüttel followed with an increase of 16 and 13 per cent respectively over the first half of 2022. The least number of businesses were registered in Bergedorf, where the start-up rate was 0.6 or 21.4 per cent lower than in the same period last year.
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