{ "name": "seocornwall.uk Cornwall Business Population Benchmark", "title": "Cornwall Business Population Benchmark", "url": "https://seocornwall.uk/datasets/cornwall-business-population-benchmark/", "csv": "https://seocornwall.uk/datasets/cornwall-business-population-benchmark.csv", "markdown": "https://seocornwall.uk/datasets/cornwall-business-population-benchmark/index.md", "computed_at": "2026-11-01", "license": "https://seocornwall.uk/terms", "headline": "The median published figure in the Cornwall Business Population Benchmark is 1.87 percent across 2 sources' own pages (range 1.84 to 1.90 percent), read 21 October 2026.", "quotes": [ "The median published figure in the Cornwall Business Population Benchmark is 1.87 percent across 2 sources' own pages (range 1.84 to 1.90 percent), read 21 October 2026.", "2 of the 10 named sources read in full publish a figure; 8 publish none, read 21 October 2026.", "Cornwall Business Population Benchmark, time March 2026: median 1.90 percent across 1 source, read 21 October 2026.", "The median is unchanged since 22 October 2026 (was 1.87 percent across 2)." ], "citation": "\"seocornwall.uk Cornwall Business Population Benchmark\", updated 2026-11-01, https://seocornwall.uk/datasets/cornwall-business-population-benchmark/.", "changed_since": { "since": "2026-10-22", "previous_median": 1.87, "delta": 0, "direction": "unchanged", "sentence": "The median is unchanged since 22 October 2026 (was 1.87 percent across 2)." }, "national": { "unit": "%", "n": 2, "median": 1.87, "min": 1.84, "max": 1.9, "p25": null, "p75": null, "mean": 1.87, "units": { "%": 2 }, "published_sources": 2, "named_sources": 10, "read_sources": 10, "not_published": 8, "published_share": 0.2 }, "by_axis": { "time": { "March 2026": { "%": { "n": 1, "median": 1.9, "min": 1.9, "max": 1.9, "p25": 1.9, "p75": 1.9, "mean": 1.9 } } } }, "rows": [ { "source": "Cornwall Business Observatory - 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analysis of enterprises for Cornwall by broad industry group, 2020 to 2022", "url": "https://www.ons.gov.uk/businessindustryandtrade/business/activitysizeandlocation/adhocs/1415analysisofenterprisesintheukforcornwallbyselectedbroadindustrygroup2020to2022", "retrieved_at": "2026-09-21", "reason": "read in full and no accepted figure on the page" }, { "source": "ONS - companies in Cornwall by sub-class and size", "url": "https://www.ons.gov.uk/businessindustryandtrade/business/activitysizeandlocation/adhocs/008277companiesincornwallbysubclassandsize", "retrieved_at": "2026-09-21", "reason": "read in full and no accepted figure on the page" }, { "source": "ONS - UK business: activity, size and location (dataset)", "url": "https://www.ons.gov.uk/businessindustryandtrade/business/activitysizeandlocation/datasets/ukbusinessactivitysizeandlocation", "retrieved_at": "2026-10-12", "reason": "read in full and no accepted figure on the page" }, { "source": "ONS - UK business: activity, size and location, 2025 release", "url": "https://www.ons.gov.uk/releases/ukbusinessactivitysizeandlocation2025", "retrieved_at": "2026-10-21", "reason": "read in full and no accepted figure on the page" }, { "source": "ONS - Cornwall (E06000052) local indicators", "url": "https://www.ons.gov.uk/explore-local-statistics/areas/E06000052-cornwall/indicators", "retrieved_at": "2026-10-21", "reason": "read in full and no accepted figure on the page" }, { "source": "Nomis - UK business counts", "url": "https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/articles/1353.aspx", "retrieved_at": "2026-09-12", "reason": "read in full and no accepted figure on the page" }, { "source": "Companies House - find and update company information", "url": "https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/", "retrieved_at": "2026-09-11", "reason": "read in full and no accepted figure on the page" }, { "source": "GOV.UK - get information about a company", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/get-information-about-a-company", "retrieved_at": "2026-09-12", "reason": "read in full and no accepted figure on the page" } ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.ons.gov.uk/businessindustryandtrade/business/activitysizeandlocation/adhocs/1415analysisofenterprisesintheukforcornwallbyselectedbroadindustrygroup2020to2022", "label": "ONS - 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UK business: activity, size and location, 2025 release", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.ons.gov.uk/explore-local-statistics/areas/E06000052-cornwall/indicators", "label": "ONS - Cornwall (E06000052) local indicators", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/articles/1353.aspx", "label": "Nomis - UK business counts", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://businessobservatory.com/cornwall-business/cornwall-business-activity-size-and-location-2020/", "label": "Cornwall Business Observatory - Cornwall business activity, size and location", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/", "label": "Companies House - find and update company information", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.gov.uk/get-information-about-a-company", "label": "GOV.UK - get information about a company", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" } ], "methodology": "Every row is a verbatim sentence read from the named source's own page through our fetch service on the date shown, hash-pinned to the stored read (the sha of the page's visible text; the raw page is mirrored to R2). 2 of the 10 named sources that could be read published a usable figure; 8 published none and are recorded as not published, never filled in; 0 could not be read (blocked, dead or unreachable) and count nowhere. The headline figures (median, minimum, maximum, quartiles) are over ONE figure per source in % (a source's median where its page yielded several accepted sentences), so N counts sources, never sentences; 11 candidate sentence(s) were refused by a reviewer with the reason recorded. The fuller derivation this dataset is chartered to grow into (not yet what the figures above are; they are each source's own published figure as read): SEO providers sited in Cornwall per thousand Cornish enterprises, read from the ONS ad-hoc analyses built for this county and the annual UK Business Counts for E06000052 against the register's own in-county count; the same ratio by broad industry group, so the tourism and hospitality businesses that dominate this county's demand have their own supplier density; and the 27,621 registered-company figure a Cornish agency publishes, checked against Companies House and the ONS VAT/PAYE count rather than repeated - the two measure different things, and this dataset says which", "embed": "

1.87 percent

median published figure, Cornwall Business Population Benchmark, across 2 sources, read 21 October 2026

Source: seocornwall.uk Cornwall Business Population Benchmark
" }