Community & Public Services

473 organisations are counted with Community & Public Services as their primary sector — 14% of everything with a sector on record, and the 2nd largest of 16. A further 157 work in it alongside another sector.

473

organisations counted with Community & Public Services as their primary sector, across the Bailiwick’s four inhabited islands.

630Work in it at all
12Sub-sectors on record
10Parishes represented
312With capabilities mapped
14Capability domains

How complete is this sector’s count?

473 counted & publishedmeasured coverage 84%

An estimated 84% 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 4,8775,990, 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 whose main line of work is Community & Public Services473Of the 3,407 organisations with a primary sector (100% of 3,407)14% of the organisations with a primary sector on record — the 2nd largest of 16 sectors counted.Share-card ready
Organisations working in Community & Public Services at all630Counted over all 3,680 active organisations157 more than the 473 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
Community & Public Services organisations with a website of their own80%Counted over all 473 active organisations379 of 473, against 67% island-wide — 13 points above the island rate. Verified from published evidence; businesses without a web presence are under-represented.Share-card ready
The largest kind of Community & Public Services organisation on record155This attribute is on record for 473 of 473 organisations (100%)Charities & Non-Profits — 1 in 3 of the sector, ahead of Clubs & Associations (89) and Government Services (62).Share-card ready

The signature

#signature

Half of those with a founding year began after 1998, and 68 of 301 were founded a century or more ago

A founding year is on record for 301 of the 473 counted here — one of the few sectors where the seam is full enough to draw. The island's median is 2006, on 1,848 of 3,680 (50%) — below the citable bar, which is why it sits in this sentence rather than in the heading above. Counts organisations still trading that publish a founding year; older firms are likelier to do so — survivorship and reporting bias at once.

Community & Public Services organisations by founding era

A founding year on record for 301 of 473 Community & Public Services organisations (64%)

050100pre-18001950–792000–09742020s

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

The earliest founding year on record in this sector is 1030, published by St Peter's Church. A floor date: the oldest we have found, not the oldest on the island.

Median founding year on record1998A founding year on record for 301 of 473 organisations (64%)Counts organisations still trading that publish a founding year; older firms are likelier to do so — survivorship and reporting bias at once.
Trading for a century or more68A founding year on record for 301 of 473 organisations (64%)Of those that publish a founding year at all.
Founded in the 2020s26A founding year on record for 301 of 473 organisations (64%)Of those that publish a founding year at all.On record for 64% — indicative
Oldest founding year on record1030A founding year on record for 301 of 473 organisations (64%)St Peter's Church — the earliest year any organisation in this sector publishes. The year and the organisation are read from the same live claim the histogram counts, so the tile disappears rather than going stale.

What it is made of

#composition

Charities & Non-Profits leads, on 155 organisations

Every organisation is counted once, in its primary sub-sector. Separately, 157 organisations outside this count work in Community & Public Services alongside another sector — they are not in the bars below.

Primary sub-sector#composition-l2

Community & Public Services by sub-sector

Counted over all 473 active Community & Public Services organisations

Charities & Non-Profits155 33%Clubs & Associations89 19%Government Services62 13%Religious Organisations51 11%Utilities36 8%Culture Heritage30 6%Emergency Services20 4%Justice & Courts11 2%Social Services10 2%Healthcare (Public)4 1%Libraries3 1%Direct at sector level2 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.

2 are classified straight at sector level with no sub-sector — a real cohort, kept visible rather than folded into the largest bar. 157 further organisations work in Community & Public Services 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 183 of them

44% of the 413 whose parish is on record. Beyond Guernsey, Alderney 37, Sark 9, Herm 1.

Community & Public Services organisations by parish

A parish on record for 413 of 473 Community & Public Services organisations (87%)

Organisations0183
St Peter P…183St Sampson45Vale43Castel33St Saviour12St Pierre du Bois18Torteval4Forest17St Martin32St Andrew26

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.

13 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 47 trade on Alderney, Sark or Herm and are counted in the island split rather than on this map.

Concentration#parishes-lq

Where Community & Public Services is over- and under-represented

A parish on record for 413 of 473 Community & Public Services organisations (87%)

Share vs the islandunder ½×below island share≈ island shareup to 2×over 2×
St Peter P…1.03St Sampson0.82Vale0.79Castel0.96St Saviour0.96St Pierre du Bois1.44TortevalForest1.23St Martin0.89St Andrew1.89

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.

What they can do

#capabilities

The typical mapped organisation holds 2 capabilities, against 3 island-wide

66% of the sector have at least one service resolved to the graph, across 14 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 312 of 473 Community & Public Services organisations (66%)

Charity, community & membership78 25%Attractions & heritage44 14%Clubs & societies40 13%Recruitment, training & coaching19 6%Legal11 4%Arts, entertainment & culture10 3%Specialist services9 3%Children's activities6 2%Estate agency & property5 2%Accountancy & tax4 1%Business consulting & advisory4 1%Risk, regulatory & compliance4 1%Architecture, surveying & engin…3 1%Corporate, fiduciary & funds3 1%IT & technology3 1%Sports & activities2 1%

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.

151 of the 312 with a capability on record span two or more of these groups (1 in 2). 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 312 of 473 Community & Public Services organisations (66%)

Worship services36 12%Church groups & ministries32 10%Family support28 9%Marriages, baptisms & funerals28 9%Heritage sites & visitor herita…27 9%Condition & disease support24 8%Waste & rubbish collection24 8%Church & parish hall hire22 7%Scouts, Guides & cadets18 6%Youth organisations17 5%Grants & charitable funding16 5%Parish administration & services15 5%

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 312 of 473 Community & Public Services organisations (66%)

Organisations032
Worship serv…Church group…Family suppo…Marriages, b…Heritage sit…Condition &…Waste & rubb…Church & par…Scouts, Guid…Youth organi…Grants & cha…Parish admin…Worship serv…Church group…Family suppo…Marriages, b…Heritage sit…Condition &…Waste & rubb…Church & par…Scouts, Guid…Youth organi…Grants & cha…Parish admin…

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 288 of 473 Community & Public Services organisations (61%)

This is what they do241 84%Core to the business110 38%A sideline41 14%One of many services40 14%

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

80% of Community & Public Services have a website of its own

Against 67% island-wide — 13 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.

Sector against island#digital-vs-island

Digital presence, this sector and the island

Counted over all 473 active Community & Public Services organisations

Community & Public ServicesThe island
0%50%100%Has a website67%80%Website on a .gg domain27%54%Links a social account of any kind51%54%Links a Facebook page47%49%

Each track carries both values at its ends; the gap between community & public services 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.

Community & Public Services organisations with a website of their own379Counted over all 473 active Community & Public Services organisationsA site of their own on record — not a directory listing or a social page.
Of those websites, the share on a .gg domain68%Counted over all 473 active Community & Public Services organisations257 of 379, 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.

Community & Public Services organisations by ownership

An ownership type on record for 311 of 473 Community & Public Services organisations (66%)

Charity or not-for-profit197 63%States-owned85 27%Privately held17 5%Other8 3%Family-owned2 1%Subsidiary or branch2 1%

As each organisation describes itself. Where a parent is off-island, that is recorded only when it was found — there is no “no parent” record, so this is not a count of independence.

Community & Public Services organisations by team size

A team size on record for 31 of 473 Community & Public Services organisations (7%)

Suppressed

Not enough on record yet for team sizes (31 of 473). A blank here is deliberate — the module renders the gap rather than a number it cannot stand behind.

Bands as published; a business that does not publish a headcount is not counted as small.

When it is open

#hours

The sector’s working week

23% of those publishing a weekly grid open on a Sunday, and 30% on a Saturday. The median week runs 40 hours.

Seven days, twenty-four hours#hours-clock

Community & Public Services organisations open, by day and hour

Opening hours on record for 135 of 473 Community & Public Services organisations (29%)

Suppressed

Not enough on record yet for opening hours (135 of 473). 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. 255 hold hours of some shape, of which 135 resolve to a weekly grid and 120 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.

+137
Community & Public Services 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.

Island Graph, The Guernsey Business Census — Community & Public Services, island.gg/census/community-public — 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 473 active organisations whose primary sector is Community & Public Services 14% of the 3,407 with a primary sector on record. The wider 630 who work in Community & Public Services 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 413, a founding year for 301, a capability resolved to the graph for 312, opening hours that resolve to a weekly grid for 135. Those bases are printed under every chart, because the denominator is part of the datum.

This sector’s own coverage was measured at 84% 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 →