For businesses, Ealing offers a dynamic environment.
Business growth in Ealing is seriously impressive, with more VAT registered businesses located here than anywhere else in West London. Its Park Royal industrial estate is the largest in Europe and is home to major companies including Diageo and The Carphone Warehouse.
Other companies already established in the borough include GlaxoSmithKline, Dunnhumby, Random House Books, TNS Global, Ealing Studios and the British Marketing Research Bureau. The BBC is right on the doorstep in neighbouring White City.
Ealing is prosperous with around 147,500 people in work and an average household income of £36,000 a year. Ealing has a thriving economy. Over the last two years there has been a staggering 20% increase in the number of new businesses registered to pay VAT*.
* Sources: ONS Annual Population Survey 2008/09, CACI Paycheck Data, 2009