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Health & Wellness

427 organisations are counted with Health & Wellness as their primary sector — 12% of everything with a sector on record, and the 3rd largest of 16. A further 42 organisations work in it alongside another sector.

The count

427

organisations counted with Health & Wellness as their primary sector, across the Bailiwick’s four inhabited islands.

469Work in it at all
22Sub-sectors on record
10Parishes represented
295With capabilities mapped
7Capability domains

How complete is this sector’s count?

427 counted & publishedmeasured coverage 73%

An estimated 73% of this sector’s organisations are counted — the 4th-lowest measured coverage of the 16 sectors.

Every count in this chapter is a floor, never a total.

How coverage is measured →

Headline figures

#headlines ⧉

The figures you can quote

The figures in this chapter that clear the citable bar — coverage high enough, count large enough, denominator named. A figure that does not clear it appears further down as a chart, badged, or not at all.

The largest kind of Health & Wellness organisation on record122This attribute is on record for 427 of 427 organisations (100%)Beauty & Aesthetics — 29% of the sector, ahead of Gyms & Fitness (69) and Care Services (48).
Organisations working in Health & Wellness at all469Counted over all 3,616 active organisations42 more than the 427 that call it their main line — counted in every sector they work in, so sector totals add up to more than the island does.
Organisations with what they do resolved to the capability graph69%A capability on record for 295 of 427 organisations (69%)295 of 427, against 71% island-wide, mid-table on capability coverage: 8th of the 13 sectors where it can be counted; a median of 4 capabilities each against 3 island-wide. Capabilities as published by each organisation and resolved to the graph; a business with no capability claim is not necessarily a business that does none of these things.
Share of parish-known Health & Wellness based in St Peter Port42%A parish on record for 388 of 427 organisations (91%)163 of the 388 whose parish is on record — a concentration of 0.98 against the parish's share of everything counted.

What stands out

#signature ⧉

Concentrated in St Martin, thin in Vale

St Peter Port holds the most in raw terms — 163 of the 388 whose parish is on record, a concentration of 0.98 against that parish's share of everything counted. The sharpest concentration among the parishes large enough to name is St Martin at 1.49. A quotient of one means the same mix as the island, which is the commonest reading and should look like nothing. Smaller parishes are drawn but not named: below 30 organisations a quotient moves on a single new record.

Concentration, not headcount#signature-parish-lq ⧉

Where Health & Wellness is over- and under-represented

A parish on record for 388 of 427 Health & Wellness organisations (91%)

Share vs the islandunder ½×below island share≈ island shareup to 2×over 2×
St Peter P…0.98St Sampson1.06Vale0.86Castel1.10St Saviour0.65St Pierre du Bois0.87Torteval—Forest0.62St Martin1.49St Andrew0.97

Tap a parish for its full name and count — at this size some shapes are too small to carry a label. Every parish is in the table.

A location quotient: this sector's share of a parish against its share of the island. A quotient of one means "the same mix as the island", and should look like nothing. Hatched parishes hold too few of this sector to compare at all, and parishes holding fewer than 30 are drawn and tabled but never named in a sentence — a quotient over a handful moves on one new record.

12 Guernsey organisations in this sector have no parish on record — a real gap, not an exclusion, and the map fills in as verification proceeds; a further 27 organisations trade on Alderney, Sark or Herm and are counted in the island split rather than on this map.

Sub-sectors

#composition ⧉

Beauty & Aesthetics leads, on 122 organisations

Every organisation is counted once, in its primary sub-sector. Separately, 42 organisations outside this count work in Health & Wellness alongside another sector — they are not in the bars below.

Primary sub-sector#composition-l2 ⧉

Health & Wellness by sub-sector

Counted over all 427 active Health & Wellness organisations

Beauty & Aesthetics122 29%Gyms & Fitness69 16%Care Services48 11%Pet Services38 9%Alternative & Complementary35 8%Mental Health27 6%Dentists20 5%Doctors & Medical18 4%Physiotherapy & Rehab10 2%Opticians & Eye Care8 2%Podiatry & Chiropody7 2%Spas & Massage5 1%Hospitals3 1%Speech & Language Therapy3 1%Audiology & Hearing2 0%Mobility Aids & Medical Supplies2 0%Nutrition & Dietetics2 0%Occupational Therapy2 0%Paediatrics2 0%Sexual Health2 0%Medical Imaging Services1 0%Smoking Cessation1 0%

Counts each organisation's primary sub-sector, so the bars sum to the sector, and each is the roll call the directory lists under that name.

42 further organisations work in Health & Wellness alongside another sector and are not in these bars: each is counted in the sub-sector of the sector it calls its main line. "Works in", never "is in".

St Peter Port holds 163 Health & Wellness organisations

42% of the 388 whose parish is on record. Off Guernsey: 24 on Alderney and 3 on Sark.

Health & Wellness organisations by parish

A parish on record for 388 of 427 Health & Wellness organisations (91%)

Organisations0163
St Peter P…163St Sampson54Vale43Castel36St Saviour8St Pierre du Bois10Torteval2Forest8St Martin51St Andrew13

Tap a parish for its full name and count — at this size some shapes are too small to carry a label. Every parish is in the table.

Guernsey parishes only; Alderney, Sark and Herm are counted in the island split above.

12 Guernsey organisations in this sector have no parish on record — a real gap, not an exclusion, and the map fills in as verification proceeds; a further 27 organisations trade on Alderney, Sark or Herm and are counted in the island split rather than on this map.

Founding years

#age ⧉

How old it is

Counts organisations still trading that publish a founding year; older firms are likelier to do so — survivorship and reporting bias at once.

Founding era#age-eras ⧉

Health & Wellness organisations by founding era

A founding year on record for 168 of 427 Health & Wellness organisations (39%)

On record for 39% — indicative
050100pre-18001950–792000–09702020s

Counts organisations still trading that publish a founding year; older firms are likelier to do so — survivorship and reporting bias at once.

Half of those with a founding year began after 2014. The island's median is 2006.

Founded in the 2020s37A founding year on record for 168 of 427 organisations (39%)Of those that publish a founding year at all.On record for 39% — indicative

Capabilities

#capabilities ⧉

The typical mapped organisation holds 4 capabilities, against 3 island-wide

69% of the sector have at least one service resolved to the graph, across 7 domains, against 71% island-wide, mid-table on capability coverage: 8th of the 13 sectors where it can be counted. Capabilities as published by each organisation and resolved to the graph; a business with no capability claim is not necessarily a business that does none of these things.

Capability groups on record

A capability on record for 295 of 427 Health & Wellness organisations (69%)

Beauty & aesthetics88 30%Care & support47 16%Fitness & movement47 16%Alternative & complementary44 15%Allied health42 14%Spa, massage & relaxation37 13%Mental health & wellbeing33 11%Medical & clinical31 11%Pet & animal services26 9%Dental20 7%Eye & hearing care13 4%Recruitment, training & coaching4 1%Charity, community & membership3 1%Business consulting & advisory1 0%Estate agency & property1 0%

Capabilities as published by each organisation and resolved to the graph; a business with no capability claim is not necessarily a business that does none of these things.

97 of the 295 with a capability on record span two or more of these groups (1 in 3). Two capabilities inside one group are one trade, not two, which is why this counts groups rather than nodes.

The busiest nodes#capability-nodes ⧉

What the most organisations are on record for

A capability on record for 295 of 427 Health & Wellness organisations (69%)

Hair styling34 12%Massage therapy32 11%Manicure & pedicure29 10%Ladies' haircut27 9%Facials26 9%Residential care26 9%Men's haircut25 8%Waxing24 8%Skincare22 7%Hair colouring21 7%Gel nails20 7%Lash treatments20 7%

An organisation on two of these is counted on both, so the rows add up to more than the number of organisations.

What goes with what#capability-pairs ⧉

Capabilities held together

A capability on record for 295 of 427 Health & Wellness organisations (69%)

Organisations025
Hair stylingMassage ther…Manicure & p…Ladies' hair…FacialsResidential…Men's haircutWaxingSkincareHair colouri…Gel nailsLash treatme…Hair stylingMassage ther…Manicure & p…Ladies' hair…FacialsResidential…Men's haircutWaxingSkincareHair colouri…Gel nailsLash treatme…

Each cell counts the organisations on record for both capabilities; the diagonal is blank on purpose. Capabilities as published by each organisation and resolved to the graph; a business with no capability claim is not necessarily a business that does none of these things.

How central is it?#capability-roles ⧉

Is this what they do, or one of many things they do?

A positioning note on record for 268 of 427 Health & Wellness organisations (63%)

This is what they do195 73%Core to the business164 61%One of many services104 39%A sideline26 10%

The roles overlap: one business can be “this is what they do” for one capability and “a sideline” for another, so these rows add up past the number of businesses.

Online presence

#digital ⧉

66% of Health & Wellness organisations have a website of their own

Against 67% island-wide — 1 point below the island rate, mid-table on own-site rate: 8th of the 15 sectors where it can be counted. The gap is the robust part: the sector’s own rate is measured over the organisations we have found, and the ones still missing are disproportionately the web-invisible.

Sector against island#digital-vs-island ⧉

Digital presence, this sector and the island

Counted over all 427 active Health & Wellness organisations

Health & WellnessThe island
0%50%100%Has a website66%67%Website on a .gg domain27%28%Links a social account of any kind48%50%Links a Facebook page44%47%Links an Instagram account23%24%

Each track carries both values at its ends; the gap between health & wellness and the island is in the table view. Measured in share of organisations.

Verified from published evidence; businesses without a web presence are under-represented.

Each row is a share of all organisations counted, in the sector and island-wide — not a share of those with a website, so the rows are comparable with one another.

Health & Wellness organisations with a website of their own282Counted over all 427 active Health & Wellness organisationsA site of their own on record — not a directory listing or a social page.
Of those websites, the share on a .gg domain42%Counted over all 427 active Health & Wellness organisations119 of 282, against 40% of the 2,432 island-wide. Counts the .gg family — .gg, .co.gg, .org.gg and the rest.

Opening hours

#hours ⧉

The sector’s working week

Seven days, twenty-four hours#hours-clock ⧉

Health & Wellness organisations open, by day and hour

Opening hours on record for 218 of 427 Health & Wellness organisations (51%)

On record for 51% — indicative
Organisations open0197
00061218MonTueWedThuFriSatSunmidnight ↑

18% of those publishing a weekly grid open on a Sunday, and 65% on a Saturday. The median week runs 45 hours. Published opening hours only; a business that does not publish hours is not counted as closed. 301 hold hours of some shape, of which 218 resolve to a weekly grid and 83 are seasonal or per-site prose that must not be half-parsed.

What this chapter cannot yet say

These modules are on record for too few of the 427 organisations counted here to draw. A blank is deliberate: the module reports its base rather than a number it cannot stand behind.

  • Ownership49 of 427 on record

This chapter’s row on the evidence map →

Newly verified

#pulse ⧉

The last 90 days

+166
Health & Wellness organisations added to the register (discovery, not openings)
0
recorded as no longer trading in the window

Use these numbers

#use ⧉

Free to reuse, with attribution

Every section has a stable anchor and every count traces to published evidence — licence CC BY 4.0, credit “Island Graph” with a link.

Island Graph, The Guernsey Business Census — Health & Wellness, Q3 2026 edition, island.gg/census/2026-q3/health-wellness — frozen 30 September 2026.

The whole Q3 2026 edition →

How this chapter counts

#method ⧉

The bases every figure here divides by

This chapter counts over the 427 active organisations whose primary sector is Health & Wellness — 12% of the 3,582 with a primary sector on record; the wider 469 who work in Health & Wellness at all are counted in every sector they work in, and are used only where a sentence says “works in”. Each module then divides by what is actually on record for it — a parish for 388, a founding year for 168, a capability resolved to the graph for 295, opening hours that resolve to a weekly grid for 218 — and those bases are printed under every chart, because the denominator is part of the datum.

This sector’s own coverage was measured at 73% on 30 September 2026, by capture–recapture against Google's business listings for the Bailiwick, with every organisation that was itself added from those listings left out of the comparison so the two counts stay independent. Every count above is a floor.

This chapter’s row on the evidence map — what each module here may and may not claim →

Full methodology — populations, tiers, biases and how coverage is measured →