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The Guernsey Business CensusChapter 9 of 16

Automotive & Transport

182 organisations are counted with Automotive & Transport as their primary sector — 5% of everything with a sector on record, and the 9th largest of 16. A further 46 work in it alongside another sector.

As of 3 September 2026⧉ Cite this chapterBrowse the Automotive & Transport directory← The whole census
182

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

228Work in it at all
13Sub-sectors on record
10Parishes represented
120With capabilities mapped
9Capability domains

Coverage

#coverage ⧉

How complete is this sector’s count?

182 counted & publishedmeasured coverage 79%

An estimated 79% 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.

Numbers you can print

#headlines ⧉

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 with what they do resolved to the capability graph66%A capability on record for 120 of 182 organisations (66%)120 of 182, against 71% island-wide; 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.Share-card ready
Organisations working in Automotive & Transport at all228Counted over all 3,680 active organisations46 more than the 182 that call it their main line — counted in every sector they work in, so sector totals add up to more than the island does.Share-card ready
Share of parish-known Automotive & Transport based in St Peter Port30%A parish on record for 168 of 182 organisations (92%)51 of the 168 whose parish is on record — a concentration of 0.71 against the parish's share of everything counted.Share-card ready
Organisations whose main line of work is Automotive & Transport182Of the 3,407 organisations with a primary sector (100% of 3,407)5% of the organisations with a primary sector on record — the 9th largest of 16 sectors counted.Share-card ready

The signature

#signature ⧉

Car Services leads on 61; Boat & Marine is the second largest on 38

Every organisation is counted once, in its primary sub-sector, so the bars sum to the sector. Boat & Marine is 21% of it, ahead of Taxis & Private Hire (25) and Car Sales (18).

Primary sub-sector#signature-composition ⧉

Automotive & Transport by sub-sector

Counted over all 182 active Automotive & Transport organisations

Car Services61 34%Boat & Marine38 21%Taxis & Private Hire25 14%Car Sales18 10%Vehicle Parts & Accessories8 4%Fuel & Charging7 4%Vehicle Hire7 4%Bicycles6 3%Motorcycles & Scooters6 3%Car Wash & Valeting2 1%Tyres & Exhausts2 1%Vehicle Storage1 1%Vehicle Transport & Shipping1 1%

Counts each organisation's primary sub-sector, so the bars sum to the sector.

46 further organisations work in Automotive & Transport 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 51 of them

30% of the 168 whose parish is on record. Beyond Guernsey, Alderney 4, Sark 2.

Headcount#parishes-count ⧉

Automotive & Transport organisations by parish

A parish on record for 168 of 182 Automotive & Transport organisations (92%)

Organisations051
St Peter P…51St Sampson27Vale43Castel14St Saviour2St Pierre du Bois3Torteval1Forest11St Martin13St Andrew3

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.

8 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 6 trade on Alderney, Sark or Herm and are counted in the island split rather than on this map.

Concentration#parishes-lq ⧉

Where Automotive & Transport is over- and under-represented

A parish on record for 168 of 182 Automotive & Transport organisations (92%)

Share vs the islandunder ½×below island share≈ island shareup to 2×over 2×
St Peter P…0.71St Sampson1.21Vale1.95Castel1.00St Saviour—St Pierre du Bois—Torteval—Forest1.96St Martin0.89St Andrew—

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.

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 ⧉

Half of those with a founding year began after 2000

The island's median is 2006. 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 ⧉

Automotive & Transport organisations by founding era

A founding year on record for 85 of 182 Automotive & Transport organisations (47%)

On record for 47% — indicative
0102030pre-18001950–792000–09262020s

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

66% of the sector have at least one service resolved to the graph, across 9 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.

By group#capability-groups ⧉

Capability groups on record

A capability on record for 120 of 182 Automotive & Transport organisations (66%)

Servicing & mechanical repair36 30%Tyres, parts & accessories27 23%Bodywork, paint & detailing26 22%Vehicle sales & hire25 21%Marine trades & services19 16%Passenger transport15 13%Driving instruction11 9%Fuel & charging8 7%Transport, freight & storage7 6%Charter, hire & passenger6 5%Recovery & breakdown6 5%Fishing & aquaculture2 2%

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.

50 of the 120 with a capability on record span two or more of these groups (42%). 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 120 of 182 Automotive & Transport organisations (66%)

Vehicle repairs & servicing35 29%MOT & scheduled servicing19 16%Body & accident repair17 14%Tyre fitting & supply17 14%Diagnostics & fault-finding16 13%Boat repair & maintenance14 12%Private hire taxi12 10%Used car sales12 10%Airport & harbour transfers10 8%Car parts supply10 8%Driving school & lessons10 8%Panel beating & painting10 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 120 of 182 Automotive & Transport organisations (66%)

Organisations019
Vehicle repa…MOT & schedu…Body & accid…Tyre fitting…Diagnostics…Boat repair…Private hire…Used car sal…Airport & ha…Car parts su…Driving scho…Panel beatin…Vehicle repa…MOT & schedu…Body & accid…Tyre fitting…Diagnostics…Boat repair…Private hire…Used car sal…Airport & ha…Car parts su…Driving scho…Panel beatin…

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 110 of 182 Automotive & Transport organisations (60%)

This is what they do84 76%Core to the business68 62%One of many services32 29%A sideline12 11%

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 ⧉

58% of Automotive & Transport have a website of its own

Against 67% island-wide — 9 points below 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.

Sector against island#digital-vs-island ⧉

Digital presence, this sector and the island

Counted over all 182 active Automotive & Transport organisations

Automotive & TransportThe island
0%50%100%Has a website58%67%Website on a .gg domain23%27%Links a social account of any kind48%54%Links a Facebook page47%49%

Each track carries both values at its ends; the gap between automotive & transport 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.

Automotive & Transport organisations with a website of their own106Counted over all 182 active Automotive & Transport organisationsA site of their own on record — not a directory listing or a social page.
Of those websites, the share on a .gg domain39%Counted over all 182 active Automotive & Transport organisations41 of 106, against 40% of the 2,470 island-wide. Counts the .gg family — .gg, .co.gg, .org.gg and the rest.

How it's organised

#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.

Legal form#form-legal ⧉

Automotive & Transport organisations by legal form

A legal form on record for 76 of 182 Automotive & Transport organisations (42%)

On record for 42% — indicative
Limited company63 83%Sole trader10 13%Partnership1 1%States entity1 1%Other1 1%

Sole traders are the systematic undercount here: a limited company publishes its form, a sole trader rarely does.

A further 14 hold something in the legal-form slot that is not a legal form — filing notes, a bare year. Those leave the denominator rather than inflating “other”.

When it is open

#hours ⧉

The sector’s working week

22% of those publishing a weekly grid open on a Sunday, and 60% on a Saturday. The median week runs 50 hours.

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

Automotive & Transport organisations open, by day and hour

Opening hours on record for 90 of 182 Automotive & Transport organisations (49%)

On record for 49% — indicative
Organisations open090
00061218MonTueWedThuFriSatSunmidnight ↑

Published opening hours only; a business that does not publish hours is not counted as closed. 127 hold hours of some shape, of which 90 resolve to a weekly grid and 37 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.

+69
Automotive & Transport 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

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.

census.csvsector × parishcensus.jsonevery aggregateAbout the dataFull methodologyPress desk
Island Graph, The Guernsey Business Census — Automotive & Transport, island.gg/census/automotive-transport — as of 3 September 2026.

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 182 active organisations whose primary sector is Automotive & Transport — 5% of the 3,407 with a primary sector on record. The wider 228 who work in Automotive & Transport 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 168, a founding year for 85, a capability resolved to the graph for 120, opening hours that resolve to a weekly grid for 90. Those bases are printed under every chart, because the denominator is part of the datum.

This sector’s own coverage was measured at 79% 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 →