Warsaw, Poland

What Warsaw is made of: the communities whose institutions are here, the sectors its 29,213 businesses sit in, the franchises already on the ground, and the services a newcomer could start.

Business register for this city: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL 1.0 — named shops, offices, trades and services, which undercounts businesses that are not mapped.

29,213 businesses on file · 180 trades · 28 sectors · registry population 1,870,000 · built from geonet.poland on 2026-10-27

Businesses29,213
100% carry coordinates
Specialised in12
trades above the national pattern
Places of worship0
Franchise brands78
already operating here

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The local economy

What the business base is made of, what it is specialised in against the national pattern, and what that mix implies. This is the part a development office would read first.

Composition, not health. geonet records what trades exist and where; it does not record formation, closure, employment or revenue, so none of those appear here. What makes this economics rather than a directory is the NAICS coding: it lets the local mix be read against the BLS survival curves and against the 323 industry groups this research has screened.

The two biggest markets here

Every industry group on this page links through to its NAICS page, and to the screened market report where this research has one — that is what the trait-to-NAICS coding buys.

Business density15.6
businesses per 1,000 residents, against the registry population of 1,870,000
Breadth of the base1784
moderate — 45 industry groups, top three 60%
Survival the mix implies59%
at five years, against 51.4% for all private establishments
Coded to NAICS41.5%
of which 84.2% unambiguous

What this city is specialised in

Location quotient is this city's share of a trade divided by the same share across 26 metro tables worldwide. Above 1.25 is the conventional threshold for a local specialisation.

The base against the entry screen

Businesses by the entry signal of the industry group they sit in, from the /markets screen. A large "structure decides" share means most local trades are ones where being better than the incumbent does not by itself win. A trade is matched to the screened record at whatever level the research wrote it — the same code, a broader one, or a narrower one. Where a group holds several screened sub-markets the count is shown, because no single one of them speaks for the whole group.

Enter
15.3%
1,852 businesses
Caution
42.8%
5,192 businesses
Structure decides
41.9%
5,078 businesses
Not screened
0%
0 businesses

How to read the survival figure

Each sector's five-year establishment survival rate, weighted by how many of this city's businesses sit in that sector. It is a property of the MIX, not of these businesses — it says what survival this composition would imply at US private-sector rates, because no Canadian equivalent series exists.

Weighted over 100% of the coded base — public administration carries no curve. Source: Business Employment Dynamics — Table 7, Survival of private sector establishments by opening year, US Bureau of Labor Statistics.

And what it does not measure

A "mixed" trait is one that genuinely spans codes — "computers" covers systems design, repair and supply. The clear share is how much of this reading rests on unambiguous coding. Business density also reflects how completely the directory covers a place, not only how many businesses are in it — so it compares poorly between a city the register knows well and one it does not.

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Who lives here, and who the city is for

The census: the only figures on this page that count people rather than businesses, and the three cohort readings they make possible.

No census subdivision is mapped for pl-warsaw in local/census-map.json, so this page carries no census figures. The mapping is kept explicit because Canada has several places called London, Toronto and Kelowna, and attaching the wrong one would put another city's demographics on this page.

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People and languages

Who lives here and the languages business runs in: population and age from the statistics offices, and the share who can hold a conversation in English and other languages from the EU’s 2024 language survey. Each figure says whether it covers the city, the region or the whole country.

Population1,875,287
city 2025
Median age41.5
city (NUTS 3 PL911 Miasto Warszawa) 2025
Foreign-born or foreign citizens5.7%
2021
Employment rate86.9%
region (NUTS 2 PL91 Warszawski stołeczny: Warsaw plus surrounding powiats) 2025

Languages spoken

Doing business in English (and other languages)

Share of residents aged 15+ in PL who speak English as mother tongue or well enough to hold a conversation (D48.alllang). As a foreign language only (D48.otherlang): 27%. Fieldwork Sept-Oct 2023, published 2024.

Age: under 15 14.7% · 15–64 65.5% · 65 and over 19.8% (city (NUTS 3 PL911), 2025) Eurostat · 792,929 households

Not established: Household-language counts are country-level 2021 census figures taken from Wikipedia (tier B) citing GUS; not checked against stat.gov.pl. No Warsaw-level language figures found.; Households avgSize: no source gives it directly for Warsaw.

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The communities the register shows

A community appears in the business register before it appears in prose — a national church, a society, a credit union, a newspaper. Those are counted as institutions, and they are what suggests residents. A restaurant serving a cuisine is counted separately as trade, because every city has those and they say nothing about who lives nearby. The ranking is by institutions.

CommunityInstitutions WorshipTrade Where it shows
Polish 73 — 88
institutions on Mokotowska 14 (2)
trade on Twarda 51/55 (4) · Myśliwiecka 3/5/7 (2) · Świętokrzyska 14 (2) · Chodakowska 50 (2)
Polski Komitet Normalizacyjny · Związek Rzemiosła Polskiego · Polski Związek Niewidomych
Czech 2 — 2
Czytelnia Nr XIX "Czechowice" · Biblioteka Publiczna im. W.J. Grabskiego w Dzielnicy Ursus Oddział "Czechowice"
Italian 1 — 32
Biblioteka Iberystyki, Italianistyki i Romanistyki UW
Thai — — 93
trade on Aleja Jana Pawła II 43A (3) · Grzybowska 3 (2)
Swiss — — 9
Korean — — 5
Spanish-speaking — — 3
French — — 3
Chinese — — 2
South Asian — — 2
German — — 2
Turkish — — 2
Irish — — 2
Japanese — — 1
Greek — — 1
Jewish — — 1
Somali — — 1
Scottish — — 1
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Where the communities are

Streets, not neighbourhood names. The data knows that Greek institutions sit on one street and Greek restaurants on another; it does not know the word "Greektown", so it does not use it.

Polish

institutions on Mokotowska 14 (2)
trade on Twarda 51/55 (4) · Myśliwiecka 3/5/7 (2) · Świętokrzyska 14 (2) · Chodakowska 50 (2)
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What the city is made of

Every business on file, grouped by the sector it trades in. This is the economic-development view: where the 29,213 businesses actually are, and the specific trades inside each sector.

SectorBusinesses ShareWhat is in it
Retail 8,231 28.2% convenience (1688) · bakery (1020) · pharmacy (820) · supermarket (512) · jewelry (248) · books (185) · electronics (127) · toys (77)
Dining 3,570 12.2% restaurant (3441) · deli (104) · food (24) · sushi (1)
Beauty 2,682 9.2% beauty salon (1381) · barber (1049) · cosmetics (116) · pet grooming (77) · tattoo (53) · interior design (5) · nails (1)
Business 2,500 8.6% association (206) · religion (129) · foundation (78) · research (51) · staffing (20) · consulting (11) · logistics (10) · virtual office (1)
Health 2,179 7.5% doctor (632) · optician (284) · massage (121) · hospital (44) · podiatrist (15) · speech therapist (8) · nursing home (2) · physician (1)
Fashion 1,307 4.5% clothing (1125) · shoes (175) · wig (7)
Beverage 1,197 4.1% coffee (826) · alcohol (251) · wine (109) · beverages (11)
Living 1,067 3.7% florist (249) · furniture (151) · childcare (83) · theatre (66) · photography (65) · dry cleaning (60) · houseware (49) · outdoor (29)
Travel 844 2.9% hotel (187) · museum (109) · laundry (73) · car rental (44) · bed and breakfast (19) · travel agent (6) · boat (4) · motel (1)
Automotive 753 2.6% car repair (445) · car wash (162) · auto parts (89) · motorcycle (32) · tires (24) · truck (1)
Education 700 2.4% library (247) · university (109) · college (93) · driving school (50) · training (38) · music lesson (34) · education (1)
Entertainment 634 2.2% bar (411) · lottery (75) · nightclub (54) · cinema (29) · party (17) · music (15) · charity (8) · casino (6)
Construction 461 1.6% flooring (34) · paint (27) · HVAC (21) · electrical (20) · carpentry (16) · carpet (6) · pottery (6) · tile (5)
Finance 447 1.5% accounting (91)
Realty 339 1.2% real estate (176) · property management (92) · studio (37) · apartment (21) · warehouse (13)
Food 306 1% ice cream (195) · candy (54) · seafood (31) · health food (18) · cheese (6) · spices (2)
Sports 241 0.8% bicycle (137) · sporting goods (92) · fishing (6) · hunting (5) · dance school (1)
Law 188 0.6% attorney (120) · notary (68)
Energy 177 0.6% fuel (177)
Media 134 0.5% printing (118) · publisher (16)
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The franchises already here

Brands from a register of 2,024 franchise systems, matched into this city by name. A high count is a signal in both directions: the territory works, and it may be taken.

47 of these brands are a single common word — Metro, Avenue, Budget — so their counts include businesses that merely share the word. They are marked rather than dropped.

BrandCategory HereWorldwide
Caffè Nero coffee 62 300
McDonald's hamburger 50 31,800
Pizza Hut pizza 28 10,000
Jean Louis David hair 13 —
Burger King fastfood 9 11,000
Cinema City entertainment 6 16
Calvin Klein mensunderwear 4 —
Media Markt retail 4 361
The Body Shop retail 4 —
Tommy Hilfiger retail 4 122
Holiday Inn businesshotel 3 —
Max Mara retail 3 —
The Beer Store spirits 3 441
Victoria's Secret lingerie 3 900
Domino's Pizza pizza 2 8,000
Hard Rock Cafe food 2 140
Harley Davidson locations motorcycle 2 —
Holiday Inn Express familyhotel 2 —
Johnny Rockets fastfood 2 141
Kiehl's retail 2 —
Michael Kors retail 2 —
Armani Exchange retail 1 108
BCD Travel travel 1 4,300
Best Western businesshotel 1 4,200
Bon Ton retail 1 —
Costa Coffee coffee 1 755
Crowne Plaza upscalehotel 1 —
Four Points by Sheraton businesshotel 1 —
JD Sports retail 1 400
North Face retail 1 —
Virgin Mobile wireless 1 —
Carrefour name only supermarket 172 2,455
Auchan name only supermarket 30 472
Starbucks name only coffee 20 3,500
Netto name only supermarket 19 371
Aldi name only supermarket 17 5,000
Kaufland name only supermarket 12 600
Sephora name only inc 11 —
Toyota name only car 11 —
Wawa name only convenience 11 556
Amplifon name only specialty 9 9,000
MANGO name only retail 8 850
Volkswagen name only — 8 —
Aldo name only retail 4 —
Benetton name only retail 3 —
Honda name only car 3 —
IKEA name only retail 3 250
Intersport name only retail 3 60
Lacoste name only — 3 —
Lexus name only luxurycar 3 —
Makro name only home 3 33
Papyrus name only retail 3 170
Armani name only fashion 2 —
Bebe name only retail 2 —
Europcar name only car 2 2,825
Radisson name only upscalehotel 2 —
Sheraton name only upscalehotel 2 —
Tiffany name only retail 2 150
UNIQLO locations name only retail 2 —
Versace name only designerclothing 2 61
Champion name only supermarket 1 1,000
Chipotle name only fastfood 1 —
Diana name only supermarket 1 3
Esprit name only retail 1 —
Fotex name only retail 1 76
Gucci name only — 1 207
InterContinental name only luxuryhotel 1 —
Jacob name only retail 1 200
Jeep name only suv 1 —
Limited name only retail 1 —
Michelin name only auto 1 —
Midas name only auto 1 1,800
Nissan name only auto 1 —
Primark name only retail 1 160
Renaissance name only upscalehotel 1 —
Sofitel name only luxuryhotel 1 —
Westin name only luxuryhotel 1 —
Wolford name only retail 1 —
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Real estate as a local trade

Four unrelated jobs share the name: selling existing homes, owning and letting them, managing them for someone else, and building new ones. For anyone weighing a move or a licence these are the counts — and the ownership question goes to /property, which answers it building by building.

Real estate is a local job market in its own right, and four unrelated trades get the same name. Counts are businesses filed under each trade in the register, which lists a brokerage once however many agents work there — so this measures firms, not licensees.

Selling homes

5312
176 firms · LQ 0.26

Offices of agents and brokers — the resale market, and the biggest single trade in most Canadian cities.

Named in the register
  • Areahouse odział III
  • BK house — Augustyna Kordeckiego 19
  • Cordia — Koszykowa 63
  • Entarius — Aleja Komisji Edukacji Narodowej 51
  • Focus Real Estate
  • Hampton Home — Przejazd 4/U4
  • Jaskulski
  • KK Trading — Hetmańska 22
  • Nasza Chata
  • Niko development
  • Peninsula Property — Piękna 68
  • Place 4 You — Wilcza 44
  • Ronson — Aleja Komisji Edukacji Narodowej 57
  • Walczak — Aleja Komisji Edukacji Narodowej 51

Owning and letting

5311
58 firms · LQ 0.54

Lessors of real estate: the buildings themselves, filed under the building rather than the owner.

Named in the register
  • 108 — Ludwika Narbutta 27A
  • Delightful Projects — Królewicza Jakuba 6
  • Dźwiękownia — Wacława Lachmana 2
  • Ego Apartments Old Town — Piwna 29
  • Esencja Warszawy — Nowy Świat 53
  • Exclusive Aparthotel — Bagno 2
  • Fantastic
  • Fuzzownia Studio — Grochowska 324
  • Loft 22 — 11 Listopada 22
  • Pro Sound Studio — Królewicza Jakuba 48
  • Stream Online — Garażowa 4
  • Telewizja PULS — Chełmska 21 bud. 22
  • Turbaza — Kolejowa 45B
  • TVP World — Jasna 14/16

Managing for owners

5313
92 firms · LQ 2.42

Property managers, who run buildings the landlord does not.

Named in the register
  • Gestor — Aleja Jana Pawła II 80
  • Posiadłość — Grochowska 288
  • Resi 4 Rent
  • Resi 4 Rent — Białej Floty 1
  • Resi4Rent — Krochmalna 61
  • Spółdzielnia Budowlano-Mieszkaniowa "Stolica" — Wspólna 69
  • Spółdzielnia Budowlano-Mieszkaniowa "Zachód" — Śliska 10
  • Spółdzielnia Budowlano-Mieszkaniowa PAN "Akademia" — Jana Szymczaka 3
  • Spółdzielnia Budownictwa Mieszkaniowego Ursynów — Aleja Komisji Edukacji Narodowej 98
  • Spółdzielnia Mieszkaniowa Idealne Mieszkanie Centrum — Hoża 43/49
  • Warszawska Spółdzielnia Budowlano-Mieszkaniowa Pracowników Umysłowych — Aleja Niepodległości 159
  • Warszawska Spółdzielnia Mieszkaniowa "Ochota" — Pruszkowska 17
  • Warszawska Spółdzielnia Mieszkaniowa "Ochota" — Władysława Korotyńskiego 23
  • ZGN Warszawa - Wola — Józefa Bema 70

Who actually owns it

The full property record →

From the /property research for this city, which asks a different question: not who trades in property here, but who owns it. An owner is named there only where a document says so. Register free to view by KW number; search by address or name closed; prices open.

Landowners

  • State Treasury (Skarb Państwa) — 10,046,731 ha nationally (32.02% of Poland); 524,115 ha in Mazowieckie, 49,908 ha of it in perpetual usufruct (2024)
  • Capital City of Warsaw (Miasto Stołeczne Warszawa) — PKiN and the Plac Defilad square; city-managed forests within c. 8,000 ha of woodland (c. 15% of the city)
  • Krajowy Ośrodek Wsparcia Rolnictwa (KOWR) — Zasób Własności Rolnej Skarbu Państwa — 1,330.0 thousand ha nationally (end-2024)
  • Agencja Mienia Wojskowego (AMW) — 1,809 land properties, 2,965.2339 ha nationally (31 Dec 2024)
  • University of Warsaw (Uniwersytet Warszawski) — 177 of 195 buildings used owned or co-owned; 550,300 m²; 784,900 m² of land occupied
  • Orlen Termika S.A. — Owner of the Siekierki and Żerań CHP plants and the Kawęczyn and Wola heat plants

Homebuilders

  • Dom Development S.A. — 4,448 units sold and 4,228 handed over in 2025 (group); Q4 2025 Warsaw: 586 sold, 924 handed over
  • Ronson Development SE — 514 units sold and 663 handed over in 2024; landbank of 4,106 units

Commercial landlords

  • Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield SE — 5 Warsaw centres: Westfield Arkadia, Westfield Mokotów, Złote Tarasy, CH Ursynów, Wileńska (c. 281,000 m² owning-company GLA)
  • Globalworth Real Estate Investments (Globalworth Poland) — 12 standing properties, 172.4k m² GLA, GAV EUR 604.6M (Dec 2025)
  • CPI Europe AG (formerly IMMOFINANZ) — 6 myhive office buildings, c. 169,000 m² as the asset pages state
  • HB Reavis — Varso Place: 144,000 m² office + 3,000 m² retail

9 marquee buildings examined, 6 with an owner established.

On "how many doors"

How many doors a landlord holds is not in any of this. The register files an apartment building under the building, not its owner, and carries no unit count; there is no open dataset of Canadian landlords by portfolio. Where this research has established ownership it is in the Warsaw property record for the city, building by building, which is a different and much slower exercise.

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Work on the go, mobile services

The Ultimate 411 half of local: everything where the customer does not have to come to you. Each service opens a page on Ultimate 411 to request a quote or book a time.

A shop needs the customer to walk in. These 186 services do the opposite — the mobile mechanic, the mobile groomer, the bookkeeper, the junk haul — and they are the ones a person can start without a lease. 5 of them already match a trait filed in this city's register.

The 186 Service=1 rows in search.local: work on the go, mobile services, where the provider travels to the customer. "present" counts businesses already filed under that exact trait name; a blank is a coverage gap, not proof of absence, because the two vocabularies were built separately.

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Schools and colleges

wander.schools is a post-secondary table — universities and colleges. K-12 public and private schools are not in it, and only 7 of its 1,686 rows carry coordinates, so these are listed and not mapped.

InstitutionTypeStudentsFounded
Warsaw University — —
Warsaw Tech University — —

In the business register

Where schooling shows up as a business rather than an institution — which is where K-12, tutoring and childcare appear.

university 109college 93driving school 50dance school 1
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Health and care

What a person moving a parent here would ask first. The register files clinics and pharmacies; it has no category for a hospital at all, so hospitals are matched by name and the limit is stated rather than hidden.

Medical clinics0
Pharmacies820
Dental practices0

geonet carries no 'hospital' trait, so these are matched on the business name. A distance-to-hospital figure needs a source that states hospital locations.

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Mayor & politics

Who holds office here, from the official lists on /politics: the mayor and city council, and the national parliament members elected for the city. Each name opens its row there.

Mayor
not yet on file
65 on council
Member of Parliament
Sejm constituency no. 19 — Warszawa (20 seats; Warsaw city plus votes cast abroad and on ships); Senate constituency no. 44 — Warszawa: Białołęka, Bielany, Śródmieście, Żoliborz (city hall, Plac Bankowy 3/5, Śródmieście). The city is split across Senate constituencies 42, 43, 44 and 45.
Marshal of the Masovian Voivodeship (Marszałek Województwa Mazowieckiego)
17 ridings
Last election
—
Elections to the Sejm and Senate of the Republic of Poland (end of the 10th-term Sejm)

Everyone who represents Warsaw →

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Funded & hiring here

Companies in this city that have raised money, and the careers pages of employers here, from the /employers research and the company database. For someone looking for work here, this is the shortlist.

Careers pages — 7 more employers here

Each link goes to the company's own careers page or official job board, not a third-party listing site. Largest local staff first.

CompanyStaff hereJobs
PGNiGEnergy24,763Careers →
Evojam softwareTech29Careers →
Andersen softwareTech—Careers →
DisplateRetail—Careers →
Gemius softwareSoftware—Careers →
NapoleanCat softwareSoftware—Careers →
OrthoPediatrics—Careers →
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What this record cannot tell you

Named in full, because the gaps are the part most likely to be misread as an answer.

  • No census figures on this page: this region is not mapped to a census subdivision in local/census-map.json, so the community counts here are business-register institutions, which is a different measurement and cannot substitute for a population.
  • wander.schools is now readable, but it holds universities and colleges only and 1,679 of its 1,686 rows have no coordinates. K-12 public and private schools need a separate source — in Ontario the Ministry of Education school finder, in British Columbia the provincial school list. wander.citytowns, hotels and territories remain denied to the ru user.
  • No 'hospital' trait exists in geonet; distance to a hospital needs an external source such as StatCan's Open Database of Healthcare Facilities.
  • 0.0% of businesses here carry no coordinates, so a map or address lookup would miss them. Postal codes reach 25.1%.

Built from

  • geonet.poland — the local business register
  • wander.regions — city name, population, metro
  • search.local — trait vocabulary and the come-to-you services
  • search.cozfranchises — 2,024 franchise brands