Education & Childcare

68 organisations are counted with Education & Childcare as their primary sector — 1 in 50 of everything with a sector on record, and the 12th largest of 16. A further 82 work in it alongside another sector.

68

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

150Work in it at all
8Sub-sectors on record
8Parishes represented
49With capabilities mapped
6Capability domains

How complete is this sector’s count?

68 counted & publishedmeasured coverage 88%

An estimated 88% 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.

Education & Childcare organisations with a website of their own72%Counted over all 68 active organisations49 of 68, against 67% island-wide — 5 points above the island rate. Verified from published evidence; businesses without a web presence are under-represented.Share-card ready
Organisations working in Education & Childcare at all150Counted over all 3,680 active organisations82 more than the 68 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
Organisations whose main line of work is Education & Childcare68Of the 3,407 organisations with a primary sector (100% of 3,407)1 in 50 of the organisations with a primary sector on record — the 12th largest of 16 sectors counted.Share-card ready

The signature

#signature

Every organisation on record for Day nursery & early years childcare is in Education & Childcare

72% of the sector have at least one capability resolved to the graph, and each bar carries how many organisations hold that capability island-wide. Day nursery & early years childcare files under Leisure & recreation in the graph rather than under this sector's own domain — a fact about how the taxonomy is built, not an error in the record. 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.

What Education & Childcare is on record for

A capability on record for 49 of 68 Education & Childcare organisations (72%)

Day nursery & early years child…30 61%Arts workshops & tuition8 16%Before & after-school care7 14%IT & digital training6 12%Professional training6 12%Compliance & regulatory training4 8%Screening & recruitment support4 8%Health & safety training3 6%Painters & visual artists3 6%Youth activity classes3 6%Bespoke jewellery & goldsmithing2 4%Sculptors, ceramicists & makers2 4%

Each row also states how many organisations hold that capability island-wide, so a node this sector effectively owns reads as one. 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.

14 of the 49 with a capability on record span two or more of these groups (29%). Two capabilities inside one group are one trade, not two, which is why this counts groups rather than nodes.

Capabilities held together

A capability on record for 49 of 68 Education & Childcare organisations (72%)

Organisations05
Day nursery…Arts worksho…Before & aft…IT & digital…Professional…Compliance &…Screening &…Health & saf…Painters & v…Youth activi…Bespoke jewe…Sculptors, c…Day nursery…Arts worksho…Before & aft…IT & digital…Professional…Compliance &…Screening &…Health & saf…Painters & v…Youth activi…Bespoke jewe…Sculptors, c…

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.

What it is made of

#composition

Nurseries & Preschools leads, on 25 organisations

Every organisation is counted once, in its primary sub-sector. Separately, 82 organisations outside this count work in Education & Childcare alongside another sector — they are not in the bars below.

Primary sub-sector#composition-l2

Education & Childcare by sub-sector

Counted over all 68 active Education & Childcare organisations

Nurseries & Preschools25 37%Schools18 26%Adult Learning15 22%Higher Education & Training5 7%Tutoring & Learning2 3%After School Holiday Clubs1 1%Direct at sector level1 1%Special Needs1 1%

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 are classified straight at sector level with no sub-sector — a real cohort, kept visible rather than folded into the largest bar. 82 further organisations work in Education & Childcare 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 25 of them

41% of the 61 whose parish is on record. Beyond Guernsey, Alderney 3, Sark 3.

Education & Childcare organisations by parish

A parish on record for 61 of 68 Education & Childcare organisations (90%)

Organisations025
St Peter P…25St Sampson14Castel7St Saviour1St Pierre du Bois2Forest3St Martin6St 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.

1 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 Education & Childcare is over- and under-represented

A parish on record for 61 of 68 Education & Childcare organisations (90%)

Share vs the islandunder ½×below island share≈ island shareup to 2×over 2×
St Peter P…0.96St Sampson1.73Castel1.38St SaviourSt Pierre du BoisForestSt Martin1.13St 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

Founding years

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

Education & Childcare organisations by founding era

A founding year on record for 27 of 68 Education & Childcare organisations (40%)

On record for 40% — indicative
0510pre-18001950–7982000–092020s

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 1 capabilities, against 3 island-wide

72% of the sector have at least one service resolved to the graph, across 6 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 49 of 68 Education & Childcare organisations (72%)

Children's activities33 67%Arts, entertainment & culture9 18%Recruitment, training & coaching8 16%Specialist services3 6%Business consulting & advisory1 2%Clubs & societies1 2%IT & technology1 2%Sports & activities1 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.

14 of the 49 with a capability on record span two or more of these groups (29%). Two capabilities inside one group are one trade, not two, which is why this counts groups rather than nodes.

How central is it?#capability-roles

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

A positioning note on record for 46 of 68 Education & Childcare organisations (68%)

This is what they do31 67%Core to the business11 24%One of many services10 22%A sideline6 13%

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

72% of Education & Childcare have a website of its own

Against 67% island-wide — 5 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 68 active Education & Childcare organisations

Education & ChildcareThe island
0%50%100%Has a website67%72%Website on a .gg domain27%32%Links a social account of any kind54%71%Links a Facebook page49%71%Links an Instagram account23%34%

Each track carries both values at its ends; the gap between education & childcare 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.

Education & Childcare organisations with a website of their own49Counted over all 68 active Education & Childcare organisationsA site of their own on record — not a directory listing or a social page.
Of those websites, the share on a .gg domain45%Counted over all 68 active Education & Childcare organisations22 of 49, against 40% of the 2,470 island-wide. Counts the .gg family — .gg, .co.gg, .org.gg and the rest.On record for 100% — indicative

When it is open

#hours

The sector’s working week

1 in 28 of those publishing a weekly grid open on a Sunday, and 11% on a Saturday.

Seven days, twenty-four hours#hours-clock

Education & Childcare organisations open, by day and hour

Opening hours on record for 28 of 68 Education & Childcare organisations (41%)

On record for 41% — indicative
Organisations open027
00061218MonTueWedThuFriSatSunmidnight ↑

Published opening hours only; a business that does not publish hours is not counted as closed. 49 hold hours of some shape, of which 28 resolve to a weekly grid and 21 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.

+15
Education & Childcare 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 — Education & Childcare, island.gg/census/education-childcare — 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 68 active organisations whose primary sector is Education & Childcare 1 in 50 of the 3,407 with a primary sector on record. The wider 150 who work in Education & Childcare 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 61, a founding year for 27, a capability resolved to the graph for 49, opening hours that resolve to a weekly grid for 28. Those bases are printed under every chart, because the denominator is part of the datum.

This sector’s own coverage was measured at 88% 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 →