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Active in Denmark
5,499
9.1 per 10,000 residents
3-year change
+6.1%
12 months: +1.7%
Opened / closed (12 mo.)
639 / 550
Median gross profit
DKK 463k
62% profitable

Deeper numbers

Survival, trouble signs, competition and people for taxi in Hele Danmark.

Survival

Still open after 1 year74%
Still open after 3 years51%
Still open after 5 years35%

Businesses that closed in the last 10 years were open for 6.4 years on average.

Share of businesses started in the 10 years before each mark that were still open after 1, 3 and 5 years.

Trouble signs

Closed within 2 years of opening (last 12 months)130 · 24% of all closures
Companies with negative equity14%
Losses two years in a row16%

Equity and losses from annual reports 2025.

Financial health

Made a loss36%
Median equity ratio50%
Gross profit per employeeDKK 383k
Staff costs per employeeDKK 348k

Medians of companies that filed annual reports for 2025 - 2,397 companies.

Competition

Run by chains (3+ places)1%
Share of the 3 largest operators0% · 5,415 owners
13 places
6 places
4 places
3 places
3 places

New and established

Openings per 10,000 residents (12 months)1.06
Average age of active businesses7.5 yrs
Younger than 2 years22%
Older than 10 years17%

Distance to the nearest one

Residents more than 5 km from one560,981 · 9%
More than 10 km86,408
Farthest parish (5,000+ residents)6.6 km · Sankt Katharine Sogn (Esbjerg)

Measured from each parish centre.

When businesses open and close

0200400600800Opened Jan: 282Closed Jan: 206JanOpened Feb: 315Closed Feb: 209Opened Mar: 302Closed Mar: 272MarOpened Apr: 244Closed Apr: 224Opened May: 333Closed May: 203MayOpened Jun: 285Closed Jun: 265Opened Jul: 273Closed Jul: 586JulOpened Aug: 359Closed Aug: 208Opened Sep: 417Closed Sep: 219SepOpened Oct: 380Closed Oct: 500Opened Nov: 316Closed Nov: 226NovOpened Dec: 251Closed Dec: 680
OpenedClosed

Per calendar month, 2021–2025. Many closures are dated 31 December (the end of a financial year), so December's closures are higher than when businesses actually stopped.

Jobs

01,0002,0003,0004,00020172019202120232025Employees

Average number of employees reported in the annual reports of companies that file accounts, sole proprietorships are not included.

Farthest from the nearest taxi

Postcodes with at least 10,000 residents, measured from the postcode centre (the average of its addresses) – possible gaps in the local offer.

PostcodeResidentsDistance
9240 Nibe12,5238.3 km
9560 Hadsund10,3165.8 km
6760 Ribe14,9495.2 km
9530 Støvring12,7235.2 km
7323 Give11,7834.5 km
6430 Nordborg11,3213.9 km
6950 Ringkøbing13,9853.9 km
5450 Otterup10,7973.0 km
6630 Rødding10,0043.0 km
8620 Kjellerup11,6022.1 km

Active in Denmark over time

02,0004,0006,0008,0002011Q4 13Q3 16Q2 192022Q4 24Taxi

Openings and closures per year

01,0002,0003,0004,000Opened 2015: 168Closed 2015: 2052015Opened 2016: 336Closed 2016: 238Opened 2017: 235Closed 2017: 2582017Opened 2018: 3,858Closed 2018: 1,359Opened 2019: 2,069Closed 2019: 1,4912019Opened 2020: 272Closed 2020: 820Opened 2021: 878Closed 2021: 1,4702021Opened 2022: 818Closed 2022: 668Opened 2023: 687Closed 2023: 5182023Opened 2024: 621Closed 2024: 575Opened 2025: 753Closed 2025: 5672025Opened 2026 (so far): 559Closed 2026 (so far): 3862026*
OpenedClosed* 2026 so far

Financials of companies filing accounts

0200k400k600k20172019202120232025Median gross profitMedian result
Median gross profitMedian result

Based on annual reports from Erhvervsstyrelsen. Sole proprietorships don't publish accounts.

By year

YearFilersMedian gross profitMiddle 50%Profitable
20252,397DKK 463k DKK 258k – DKK 707k62%
20242,203DKK 450k DKK 278k – DKK 701k58%
20232,106DKK 463k DKK 279k – DKK 685k55%
20221,915DKK 465k DKK 233k – DKK 725k62%
20211,462DKK 419k DKK 188k – DKK 667k64%
20202,363DKK 279k DKK 41k – DKK 528k24%
20192,425DKK 258k DKK 0 – DKK 669k19%
2018494DKK 262k DKK 0 – DKK 876k30%
201776DKK 174k DKK 0 – DKK 1.0m42%

By region

RegionActivePer 10k3-yr change
Region Hovedstaden3,03615.6+7%
Region Midtjylland8225.9+5%
Region Nordjylland2844.8-2%
Region Sjælland5196.0+1%
Region Syddanmark6365.1+6%

What's included

Businesses whose main Danish branche code (DB07/DB25) starts with:

493200… (DB07, before 2025)Taxikørsel
4933…Passagertransport på bestilling i køretøj med chauffør

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