Where the Baltics’ Companies Live: The Busiest Registered Addresses in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania

In our study of the Estonian addresses with the most companies, we found that thousands of Estonian companies share one registered address. Most of them do so because their owners rent a legal address in Estonia from a licensed provider rather than keeping an office. This follow-up asks the same question for the neighbours: how many companies are registered at one address in Latvia and Lithuania, and how do the figures compare with Estonia? We counted them ourselves from the official open data of both company registers on 8 October 2026.

Estonia, covered in our earlier study, is the benchmark. Its five busiest addresses, all in Tallinn, hold 13,515 companies between them, about one in every 27 active Estonian companies. The busiest single office, room 13b at Tartu mnt 67/1, is the registered address of 1,646 companies. The full Estonian ranking, with comparisons from London to Singapore, is in our article on Estonia’s busiest company addresses.

Many Companies at the Same Address: A Normal Arrangement in the Baltics

Every company in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania must have a registered address, where official letters are sent. The company does not have to work there. Many owners, especially those who live abroad or work remotely, use an address from a service firm instead, often sold as a virtual office in Riga, Vilnius or Tallinn. One firm can serve hundreds or even thousands of companies at the same address. Such places are sometimes called mass registration addresses, a neutral term for a very ordinary thing.

The arrangement is lawful and widely used, so a large number of companies registered at the same address says nothing bad about any of them. This article measures only how common the practice is in each country; it does not assess individual addresses or the companies registered there.

Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania: The Busiest Company Addresses Compared

Registers counted: Estonia 369,958 active entities; Lithuania 235,175 entities, active and inactive; Latvia 221,019 active entities. Estonian figures are from our earlier study.

Estonia and Lithuania are close on every measure. Their leading addresses differ by about 300 entities, and in both countries the five busiest addresses hold around 4% of the register. Estonia keeps first place even though the Lithuanian file also counts entities that may no longer be active, since removing them could lower the Vilnius figure but not raise it.

Latvia is the outlier. Its register is about 60% the size of Estonia’s, yet its five largest addresses together hold fewer entities than any single address in the top five of Estonia or Lithuania.

Lithuania: The 10 Registered Addresses With the Most Companies

Source: Registrų centras, file JAR_ADRESAI.csv dated 8 October 2026.

Eight registered addresses in Lithuania have more than 1,000 entities each. Together the top ten hold 15,011, roughly one in every sixteen entities in the file. Eight of the ten are in Vilnius and two in Kaunas, the country’s second city.

Seven of the ten include an office or flat number, so a single unit serves as the registered office of more than a thousand entities. Perkūnkiemio g. 13-91 in Vilnius has 1,424, for example, and Partizanų g. 61-806 in Kaunas has 1,394. Estonia shows the same pattern of single offices serving well over a thousand companies.

Latvia: The 10 Legal Addresses With the Most Companies

Source: Latvian Register of Enterprises, file register.csv; the latest registration in the file is dated 7 October 2026.

In Latvia, the legal address with the most companies has 200 entities and the tenth has 88. The top ten together hold 1,271, about 0.6% of the active register, and all ten are in Riga.

The gap is wider than it looks. Nine of the ten Latvian addresses have no flat or office number, so each figure covers a whole building, whereas in Lithuania single offices hold over a thousand entities. Even counted building by building, no shared address in Latvia comes near the Estonian or Lithuanian leaders.

Other data point in the same direction. Citing the business information company Lursoft, Latvian public broadcaster LSM reported in January 2026 that only 30 addresses in the whole of Latvia had more than 50 companies each.

The Baltic Top 3: Which Addresses Host the Most Companies in the Region

Put all three registers together, and the three addresses with the most companies in the Baltic states are:

Tallinn also takes fourth and fifth place, with Ahtri tn 12 (2,435) and Tornimäe tn 5 (2,183), so four of the five largest company addresses in the region are Estonian. Vilnius has the only non-Estonian entry, and the first Latvian address would appear far down the list, since Riga’s leader has 200.

Why Fewer Companies Share One Address in Latvia

The register data does not explain the difference, so we cannot say for certain. Two factors are likely to play a part: who needs a shared address, and how each country regulates it.

The first factor is demand, because shared addresses are used above all by companies whose owners have no premises of their own in the country. In Estonia, the e-Residency programme has brought in tens of thousands of companies run from abroad, whose owners need an address and a contact person rather than an office. Lithuania has also attracted many foreign founders, particularly in fintech and IT services. Latvia has no comparable programme, so fewer of its companies are run from abroad, and fewer need an address from a provider.

The second factor is regulation, and here the three countries take noticeably different approaches:

• Estonia regulates the providers. Offering a registered address to other companies is a licensed activity, so the provider needs an activity licence from the Financial Intelligence Unit. Within that framework, one provider may serve as many companies as it can properly handle.
• Lithuania relies on the owner’s consent. A legal entity may register its seat in someone else’s premises with the owner’s consent, and commercial address providers give that consent to many companies.
• Latvia checks the addresses themselves more closely. Since 1 August 2021 the owner’s written consent no longer has to be attached to the application, but the company must have the right to use the address, and giving false information to the register can lead to criminal liability. According to LSM, the police opened 192 criminal cases for such offences between August 2021 and December 2025, 80% of them over false legal addresses. The State Revenue Service (VID) also keeps a list of risk addresses, which by law are mainly addresses where it has found that no business can actually be carried out, and shares it with the Register of Enterprises.

The Latvian list does not target shared addresses as such: an address is not a risk address simply because many companies use it. Together, though, these measures suggest that Latvian authorities scrutinise legal addresses more closely, which may make providers less willing to place hundreds of companies at one address. Lower demand and closer scrutiny would reinforce each other, but the data alone proves neither.

How We Counted the Companies at Each Address

We grouped legal entities by the full text of their registered address. Different office or flat numbers were kept apart, so each office counts as a separate address, as in the Estonian study. We did not geocode the addresses. The counts include all types of legal entity, such as associations and foundations, not only companies.

• Estonia: the figures come from our earlier study, which used the open data of the Estonian e-Business Register as of 8 October 2026 and counted active entities only.
• Latvia: the dataset Uzņēmumu reģistrs on the Latvian open data portal, published by the Register of Enterprises and updated daily; we used its file register.csv. Of its 489,090 rows, we counted the 221,019 entities that have an address and are not marked as terminated or closed.
• Lithuania: the raw open data of the Register of Legal Entities published by Registrų centras; we used its address file JAR_ADRESAI.csv, with 235,175 legal entities. We removed only the postcode from each address. The file does not show whether an entity is still active, so all entities in it are counted.

Choosing a Registered Address for a Company in the Baltics

Whether you need a legal address in Latvia, a registered office in Lithuania or a registered address in Estonia, two things matter most. Official mail must reach you on time, and the address should come from a reliable provider. If you are still deciding where to register, our comparisons of Estonia with Latvia and Estonia with Lithuania look at taxes, costs and formation in more detail. For an Estonian company, Eesti Firma offers a registered address in central Tallinn, with official mail received and forwarded to you.

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