Agriculture & Marine
17 organisations are counted with Agriculture & Marine as their primary sector — 0% of everything with a sector on record, and the smallest of 16. A further 33 work in it alongside another sector.
organisations counted with Agriculture & Marine as their primary sector, across the Bailiwick’s four inhabited islands.
Coverage
#coverage ⧉How complete is this sector’s count?
An estimated 63% of this sector’s organisations are counted. The figure is a measurement, not a target: it comes from the same independent comparison the whole census is measured by, restricted to this sector’s rows.
Island-wide, the Bailiwick’s true trading population is estimated at 4,877–5,990, measured on 3 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.
A sector’s coverage is published as a percentage only. The stratum carries no confidence interval, so a sector population would be a point estimate dressed as a range — and the organisations invisible to both the census and the comparison listing pull every such estimate down.
Every count in this chapter is therefore a floor, never a total.
The signature
#signature ⧉Mostly somebody else's second line: 50 work in Agriculture & Marine; 17 call it home
2.9× the number that call it their main line. The other 33 are counted in the sector they DO call their main line — they work in Agriculture & Marine as well, and the census counts them in both. That is why sector totals add up to more than the island does, and why every sentence here says "works in" rather than "is in".
The 33 whose main line is elsewhere
This attribute is on record for 33 of 50 Agriculture & Marine organisations (66%)
| Where the others are counted | Organisations | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Home & Property | 10 | 30% |
| Food & Drink | 6 | 18% |
| Retail & Shopping | 6 | 18% |
| Community & Public Services | 4 | 12% |
| Automotive & Transport | 2 | 6% |
| Leisure & Recreation | 1 | 3% |
| Manufacturing & Industry | 1 | 3% |
| Travel & Transport | 1 | 3% |
| No primary sector on record | 2 | 6% |
Each row is the sector these organisations DO call their main line; they work in Agriculture & Marine as well, and the census counts them in both.
What it is made of
#composition ⧉Farming leads, on 13 organisations
Every organisation is counted once, in its primary sub-sector. Separately, 33 organisations outside this count work in Agriculture & Marine alongside another sector — they are not in the bars below.
Agriculture & Marine by sub-sector
Counted over all 17 active Agriculture & Marine organisations
On record for 100% — indicative| Primary sub-sector | Organisations | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Farming | 13 | 76% |
| Aquaculture | 2 | 12% |
| Fishing | 2 | 12% |
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.
33 further organisations work in Agriculture & Marine 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".
Where it happens
#parishes ⧉St Peter Port holds 4 of them
29% of the 14 whose parish is on record. Beyond Guernsey, Sark 1.
Agriculture & Marine organisations by parish
A parish on record for 14 of 17 Agriculture & Marine organisations (82%)
SuppressedNot enough on record yet for parishes (14 of 17). A blank here is deliberate — the module renders the gap rather than a number it cannot stand behind.
Guernsey parishes only; Alderney, Sark and Herm are counted in the island split above.
2 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 1 trade on Alderney, Sark or Herm and are counted in the island split rather than on this map.
Where Agriculture & Marine is over- and under-represented
A parish on record for 14 of 17 Agriculture & Marine organisations (82%)
SuppressedNot enough on record yet for parish concentration (14 of 17). A blank here is deliberate — the module renders the gap rather than a number it cannot stand behind.
The same island, drawn on a location quotient: this sector's share of a parish against its share of the island. Hatched parishes hold too few of this sector to compare at all. Parishes holding fewer than 30 of this sector are drawn and tabled but never named in a sentence: a quotient over a handful of organisations moves on one new record, and a superlative that flips that easily is not one.
How old it is
#age ⧉Founding years
Counts organisations still trading that publish a founding year; older firms are likelier to do so — survivorship and reporting bias at once.
Agriculture & Marine organisations by founding era
A founding year on record for 8 of 17 Agriculture & Marine organisations (47%)
SuppressedNot enough on record yet for founding years (8 of 17). A blank here is deliberate — the module renders the gap rather than a number it cannot stand behind.
Counts organisations still trading that publish a founding year; older firms are likelier to do so — survivorship and reporting bias at once.
What they can do
#capabilities ⧉The capability footprint
71% of the sector have at least one service resolved to the graph, across 7 domains, against 71% 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.
Capability groups on record
A capability on record for 12 of 17 Agriculture & Marine organisations (71%)
SuppressedNot enough on record yet for capabilities (12 of 17). A blank here is deliberate — the module renders the gap rather than a number it cannot stand behind.
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.
8 of the 12 with a capability on record span two or more of these groups (67%). Two capabilities inside one group are one trade, not two, which is why this counts groups rather than nodes.
What the most organisations are on record for
A capability on record for 12 of 17 Agriculture & Marine organisations (71%)
SuppressedNot enough on record yet for capabilities (12 of 17). A blank here is deliberate — the module renders the gap rather than a number it cannot stand behind.
An organisation on two of these is counted on both, so the rows add up to more than the number of organisations.
Capabilities held together
A capability on record for 12 of 17 Agriculture & Marine organisations (71%)
SuppressedNot enough on record yet for capability pairs (12 of 17). A blank here is deliberate — the module renders the gap rather than a number it cannot stand behind.
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.
Is this what they do, or one of many things they do?
A positioning note on record for 11 of 17 Agriculture & Marine organisations (65%)
SuppressedNot enough on record yet for how central each capability is (11 of 17). A blank here is deliberate — the module renders the gap rather than a number it cannot stand behind.
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.
The sector online
#digital ⧉71% of Agriculture & Marine have a website of its own
Against 67% island-wide — 4 points above the island rate. 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.
Digital presence, this sector and the island
Counted over all 17 active Agriculture & Marine organisations
SuppressedNot enough on record yet for digital presence (17 of 17). A blank here is deliberate — the module renders the gap rather than a number it cannot stand behind.
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. 4 further rows are 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.
When it is open
#hours ⧉The sector’s working week
1 in 4 of those publishing a weekly grid open on a Sunday, and 1 in 2 on a Saturday.
Agriculture & Marine organisations open, by day and hour
Opening hours on record for 4 of 17 Agriculture & Marine organisations (24%)
SuppressedNot enough on record yet for opening hours (4 of 17). A blank here is deliberate — the module renders the gap rather than a number it cannot stand behind.
Published opening hours only; a business that does not publish hours is not counted as closed. 7 hold hours of some shape, of which 4 resolve to a weekly grid and 3 are seasonal or per-site prose that must not be half-parsed.
The register is alive
#pulse ⧉The last 90 days
A census that was true in January is folklore by August. This chapter re-checks itself continuously.
Use these numbers
#use ⧉Free to reuse, with attribution
Journalists, researchers, sector bodies and officials are welcome to these figures. Every section has a stable anchor, and every count traces to published evidence. License: CC BY 4.0 — credit “Island Graph” with a link.
The two files are the whole census, not this chapter; the figures here are this sector’s slice of them. The whole census →
Denominators, briefly
#method ⧉This chapter counts over the 17 active organisations whose primary sector is Agriculture & Marine — 0% of the 3,407 with a primary sector on record. The wider 50 who work in Agriculture & Marine at all are counted in every sector they work in, and are used only where a sentence says “works in”.
Each module divides by what is actually on record for it: a parish for 14, a founding year for 8, a capability resolved to the graph for 12, opening hours that resolve to a weekly grid for 4. Those bases are printed under every chart, because the denominator is part of the datum.
This sector’s own coverage was measured at 63% on 3 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.
Counts organisations still trading that publish a founding year; older firms are likelier to do so — survivorship and reporting bias at once. Verified from published evidence; businesses without a web presence are under-represented. 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.
Full methodology — populations, tiers, biases and how coverage is measured →