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
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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.
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.
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.
Thin against the national pattern
Common trades that are under-represented here. For someone deciding what to open, this is the more useful half of the table — though a gap can mean unmet demand or a market that does not work here, and this does not tell you which.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Languages spoken
Doing business in English (and other languages)
- English 31% can hold a conversation (country, 2023) European Commission
- German 5% can hold a conversation (country, 2023) European Commission
- Russian 5% can hold a conversation (country, 2023) European Commission
- French 1% can hold a conversation (country, 2023) European Commission
- Spanish 1% can hold a conversation (country, 2023) European Commission
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.
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.
| Community | Institutions | Worship | Trade | 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)
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| 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 |
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
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.
| Sector | Businesses | Share | What 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) |
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.
| Brand | Category | Here | Worldwide |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | — |
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
5312Offices 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
5311Lessors 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
5313Property 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.
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.
home services
services
events
pets
luxury
healthcare
sporting goods
sports
business
outdoors
travel
construction
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.
| Institution | Type | Students | Founded |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 registerwander.regions— city name, population, metrosearch.local— trait vocabulary and the come-to-you servicessearch.cozfranchises— 2,024 franchise brands