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Home & Property

593 organisations are counted with Home & Property as their primary sector — 1 in 6 of everything with a sector on record, and the largest of 16. A further 44 organisations work in it alongside another sector.

The count

593

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

637Work in it at all
32Sub-sectors on record
10Parishes represented
491With capabilities mapped
13Capability domains

How complete is this sector’s count?

593 counted & publishedmeasured coverage 77%

An estimated 77% of this sector’s organisations are counted — the 5th-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.

Organisations whose main line of work is Home & Property593Of the 3,582 organisations with a primary sector (100% of 3,582)1 in 6 of the organisations with a primary sector on record — the largest of 16 sectors counted.
Organisations with what they do resolved to the capability graph83%A capability on record for 491 of 593 organisations (83%)491 of 593, against 71% island-wide, the highest capability coverage of the 13 sectors where it can be counted; a median of 3 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.
Organisations working in Home & Property at all637Counted over all 3,616 active organisations44 more than the 593 that call it their main line — counted in every sector they work in, so sector totals add up to more than the island does.
Home & Property organisations with a website of their own44%Counted over all 593 active organisations259 of 593, against 67% island-wide — 23 points below the island rate, the lowest own-site rate of the 15 sectors where it can be counted. Verified from published evidence; businesses without a web presence are under-represented.

What stands out

#signature ⧉

Concentrated in Vale, thin in St Peter Port

St Peter Port holds the most in raw terms — 134 of the 517 whose parish is on record, a concentration of 0.60 against that parish's share of everything counted. The sharpest concentration among the parishes large enough to name is Vale at 1.72. 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 Home & Property is over- and under-represented

A parish on record for 517 of 593 Home & Property organisations (87%)

Share vs the islandunder ½×below island share≈ island shareup to 2×over 2×
St Peter P…0.60St Sampson1.25Vale1.72Castel1.01St Saviour1.58St Pierre du Bois1.11Torteval1.80Forest0.92St Martin1.19St Andrew1.01

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. The parishes not shown are a real gap rather than an exclusion: all but a handful of the organisations without a parish are Guernsey ones whose parish is simply not on record yet.

69 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 7 organisations trade on Alderney, Sark or Herm and are counted in the island split rather than on this map.

Sub-sectors

#composition ⧉

Building & Construction leads, on 104 organisations

Every organisation is counted once, in its primary sub-sector. Separately, 44 organisations outside this count work in Home & Property alongside another sector — they are not in the bars below.

Primary sub-sector#composition-l2 ⧉

Home & Property by sub-sector

Counted over all 593 active Home & Property organisations

Building & Construction104 18%Landscaping & Gardens81 14%Electricians52 9%Cleaning Services49 8%Plumbers & Heating Engineers43 7%Painters & Decorators33 6%Carpenters & Joiners22 4%Roofers21 4%Interior Design18 3%Flooring17 3%Property Management17 3%Windows & Doors16 3%Plastering & Rendering11 2%Removals & Storage11 2%Stonemasons & Masonry11 2%Upholstery & Soft Furnishings11 2%Property Maintenance & Handyman9 2%Tiling9 2%Home Furnishings8 1%Scaffolding8 1%Pool & Spa Services6 1%HVAC, Air Conditioning & Refrig…5 1%Laundry & Dry Cleaning5 1%Fireplaces, Stoves & Chimney Se…4 1%Home Appliances4 1%Renovations4 1%Security & Alarms4 1%Asbestos Removal3 1%Pest Control3 1%Insulation2 0%Direct at sector level1 0%Stairlifts & Home Lifts1 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.

1 organisation is classified straight at sector level with no sub-sector — a real cohort, kept visible rather than folded into the largest bar. 44 further organisations work in Home & Property 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 134 Home & Property organisations

1 in 4 of the 517 whose parish is on record. Off Guernsey: 7 on Alderney.

Home & Property organisations by parish

A parish on record for 517 of 593 Home & Property organisations (87%)

Organisations0134
St Peter P…134St Sampson85Vale115Castel44St Saviour26St Pierre du Bois17Torteval8Forest16St Martin54St Andrew18

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.

69 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 7 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 ⧉

Home & Property organisations by founding era

A founding year on record for 229 of 593 Home & Property organisations (39%)

On record for 39% — indicative
0204060pre-18001950–792000–09602020s

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 2007. The island's median is 2006.

Founded in the 2020s44A founding year on record for 229 of 593 organisations (39%)Of those that publish a founding year at all.On record for 39% — indicative

Capabilities

#capabilities ⧉

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

83% of the sector have at least one service resolved to the graph, across 13 domains, against 71% island-wide, the highest capability coverage 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 491 of 593 Home & Property organisations (83%)

General building & structural188 38%Plumbing, heating & ventilation110 22%Grounds & gardens99 20%Carpentry & joinery97 20%Electrical84 17%Cleaning67 14%Painting & decorating66 13%Tiling & flooring54 11%Roofing & guttering44 9%Specialist trades41 8%Windows, doors & glazing37 8%Plastering & rendering35 7%

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.

276 of the 491 with a capability on record span two or more of these groups (56%). 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 491 of 593 Home & Property organisations (83%)

General building111 23%Painting & decorating66 13%New build & development62 13%Renovation & refurbishment56 11%Plumbing54 11%Central heating53 11%Landscape gardening47 10%Garden maintenance44 9%Carpentry & joinery (general)43 9%Electrical installation41 8%Paving & driveways39 8%Decking, fencing & timber struc…38 8%

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 491 of 593 Home & Property organisations (83%)

Organisations040
General buil…Painting & d…New build &…Renovation &…PlumbingCentral heat…Landscape ga…Garden maint…Carpentry &…Electrical i…Paving & dri…Decking, fen…General buil…Painting & d…New build &…Renovation &…PlumbingCentral heat…Landscape ga…Garden maint…Carpentry &…Electrical i…Paving & dri…Decking, fen…

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 448 of 593 Home & Property organisations (76%)

Core to the business304 68%This is what they do277 62%One of many services191 43%A sideline37 8%

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 ⧉

44% of Home & Property organisations have a website of their own

Against 67% island-wide — 23 points below the island rate, the lowest own-site rate 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 593 active Home & Property organisations

Home & PropertyThe island
0%50%100%Has a website44%67%Website on a .gg domain17%27%Links a social account of any kind50%51%Links a Facebook page47%48%

Each track carries both values at its ends; the gap between home & property 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. 1 further row is not drawn: a platform on record for fewer than 15 organisations here moves several points on one new record, which is wider than the gap it would be read against.

Home & Property organisations with a website of their own259Counted over all 593 active Home & Property organisationsA site of their own on record — not a directory listing or a social page.
Of those websites, the share on a .gg domain38%Counted over all 593 active Home & Property organisations98 of 259, against 40% of the 2,432 island-wide. Counts the .gg family — .gg, .co.gg, .org.gg and the rest.

Legal form and ownership

#form ⧉

Legal form, ownership and size — as far as they are published

These are published far less often than a phone number. Each module below states its own coverage, and renders the gap rather than a confident number over a silent base.

Opening hours

#hours ⧉

The sector’s working week

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

Home & Property organisations open, by day and hour

Opening hours on record for 196 of 593 Home & Property organisations (33%)

On record for 33% — indicative
Organisations open0195
00061218MonTueWedThuFriSatSunmidnight ↑

15% of those publishing a weekly grid open on a Sunday, and 1 in 2 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. 231 hold hours of some shape, of which 196 resolve to a weekly grid and 35 are seasonal or per-site prose that must not be half-parsed.

Newly verified

#pulse ⧉

The last 90 days

+109
Home & Property 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 — Home & Property, Q3 2026 edition, island.gg/census/2026-q3/home-property — 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 593 active organisations whose primary sector is Home & Property — 1 in 6 of the 3,582 with a primary sector on record; the wider 637 who work in Home & Property 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 517, a founding year for 229, a capability resolved to the graph for 491, opening hours that resolve to a weekly grid for 196 — and those bases are printed under every chart, because the denominator is part of the datum.

This sector’s own coverage was measured at 77% 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 →