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The Guernsey Business CensusChapter 1 of 16Draft

Home & Property

554 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 93 organisations work in it alongside another sector.

The count

554

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

647Work in it at all
31Sub-sectors on record
10Parishes represented
457With capabilities mapped
12Capability domains

How complete is this sector’s count?

554 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 & Property554Of the 3,406 organisations with a primary sector (100% of 3,406)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 graph82%A capability on record for 457 of 554 organisations (82%)457 of 554, against 71% island-wide, the highest capability coverage of the 12 sectors where it can be counted; a median of 4 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 all647Counted over all 3,680 active organisations93 more than the 554 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 554 active organisations244 of 554, 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 — 127 of the 484 whose parish is on record, a concentration of 0.61 against that parish's share of everything counted. The sharpest concentration among the parishes large enough to name is Vale at 1.71. 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 484 of 554 Home & Property organisations (87%)

Share vs the islandunder ½×below island share≈ island shareup to 2×over 2×
St Peter P…0.61St Sampson1.24Vale1.71Castel0.99St Saviour1.63St Pierre du Bois1.09Torteval1.91Forest1.05St Martin1.11St Andrew0.99

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.

65 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 5 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 92 organisations

Every organisation is counted once, in its primary sub-sector. Separately, 93 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 554 active Home & Property organisations

Building & Construction92 17%Landscaping & Gardens79 14%Cleaning Services46 8%Electricians41 7%Plumbers & Heating Engineers41 7%Painters & Decorators32 6%Carpenters & Joiners22 4%Roofers21 4%Flooring16 3%Property Management16 3%Windows & Doors16 3%Interior Design13 2%Stonemasons & Masonry12 2%Upholstery & Soft Furnishings12 2%Home Furnishings11 2%Removals & Storage11 2%Plastering & Rendering10 2%Scaffolding8 1%Tiling8 1%Renovations6 1%HVAC, Air Conditioning & Refrig…5 1%Laundry & Dry Cleaning5 1%Property Maintenance & Handyman5 1%Security & Alarms5 1%Fireplaces, Stoves & Chimney Se…4 1%Home Appliances4 1%Pool & Spa Services4 1%Asbestos Removal3 1%Pest Control3 1%Insulation2 0%Direct at sector level1 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. 93 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 127 of them

1 in 4 of the 484 whose parish is on record. Off Guernsey: 5 on Alderney.

Home & Property organisations by parish

A parish on record for 484 of 554 Home & Property organisations (87%)

Organisations0127
St Peter P…127St Sampson80Vale109Castel40St Saviour24St Pierre du Bois16Torteval8Forest17St Martin47St Andrew16

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.

65 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 5 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 207 of 554 Home & Property organisations (37%)

On record for 37% — indicative
0204060pre-18001950–792000–09522020s

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 2020s40A founding year on record for 207 of 554 organisations (37%)Of those that publish a founding year at all.On record for 37% — indicative

Capabilities

#capabilities

The typical mapped organisation holds 4 capabilities, against 3 island-wide

82% of the sector have at least one service resolved to the graph, across 12 domains, against 71% island-wide, the highest capability coverage of the 12 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 457 of 554 Home & Property organisations (82%)

General building & structural171 37%Plumbing, heating & ventilation106 23%Carpentry & joinery98 21%Grounds & gardens92 20%Electrical73 16%Cleaning63 14%Painting & decorating63 14%Tiling & flooring50 11%Roofing & guttering42 9%Specialist trades37 8%Windows, doors & glazing36 8%Plastering & rendering35 8%

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.

262 of the 457 with a capability on record span two or more of these groups (57%). 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 457 of 554 Home & Property organisations (82%)

General building106 23%Painting & decorating63 14%New build & development57 12%Plumbing54 12%Central heating51 11%Renovation & refurbishment51 11%Carpentry & joinery (general)43 9%Garden maintenance43 9%Landscape gardening43 9%Decking, fencing & timber struc…36 8%Drainage & waste35 8%Paving & driveways35 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 457 of 554 Home & Property organisations (82%)

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

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 418 of 554 Home & Property organisations (75%)

Core to the business287 69%This is what they do252 60%One of many services182 44%A sideline38 9%

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 554 active Home & Property organisations

Home & PropertyThe island
0%50%100%Has a website44%67%Website on a .gg domain16%27%Links a social account of any kind52%53%Links a Facebook page49%51%

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 own244Counted over all 554 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 domain37%Counted over all 554 active Home & Property organisations90 of 244, against 40% of the 2,470 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 183 of 554 Home & Property organisations (33%)

On record for 33% — indicative
Organisations open0182
00061218MonTueWedThuFriSatSunmidnight ↑

16% 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. 219 hold hours of some shape, of which 183 resolve to a weekly grid and 36 are seasonal or per-site prose that must not be half-parsed.

Newly verified

#pulse

The last 90 days

+103
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, island.gg/census/home-property — as of 4 September 2026.

The whole census →

How this chapter counts

#method

The bases every figure here divides by

This chapter counts over the 554 active organisations whose primary sector is Home & Property 1 in 6 of the 3,406 with a primary sector on record; the wider 647 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 484, a founding year for 207, a capability resolved to the graph for 457, opening hours that resolve to a weekly grid for 183 — 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 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.

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 →