How many businesses in Cornwall (2 figures)
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.
The median is unchanged since 22 October 2026 (was 1.87 percent across 2).
By time
| Breakdown | Median | Range | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|
| timeMarch 2026 | 1.9% | 1.9 to 1.9% | 1 |
Every figure, with its source
One row per published figure: the figure as the source's own page publishes it, the page, and the day it was read. A figure that is not on a page we read is not on this one.
| Source | Figure | Breakdown | Read |
|---|---|---|---|
| ONS - activity, size and location (topic page) | 1.9% | March 2026 | 2026-10-12 |
| Cornwall Business Observatory - Cornwall business activity, size and location | 1.84% | 2026-10-21 |
The sentence each figure was read from (2)
- ONS - activity, size and location (topic page), read 2026-10-12:
There were 2.79 million Value Added Tax (VAT) and/or Pay As You Earn (PAYE) businesses in the UK as of March 2026, an increase of 1.9% from March 2025.
- Cornwall Business Observatory - Cornwall business activity, size and location, read 2026-10-21:
As of March 2019 there were 2,718,435 businesses registered in the UK for VAT and/or PAYE (Pay As You Earn), a rise of 1.84% from the 2,669,440 businesses registered in March 2018, and a larger increase than the 0.02% rise from 2017-2018.
Read in full, publishes no figure
8 named sources were read in full on the dates shown and print no usable figure. They are counted, never filled in.
- ONS - analysis of enterprises for Cornwall by broad industry group, 2020 to 2022, read 2026-09-21: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- ONS - companies in Cornwall by sub-class and size, read 2026-09-21: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- ONS - UK business: activity, size and location (dataset), read 2026-10-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- ONS - UK business: activity, size and location, 2025 release, read 2026-10-21: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- ONS - Cornwall (E06000052) local indicators, read 2026-10-21: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- Nomis - UK business counts, read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- Companies House - find and update company information, read 2026-09-11: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- GOV.UK - get information about a company, read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
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
11 candidate sentences on these pages were refused by a reviewer; each refusal and its reason is recorded in the review ledger.
Sources (10)
- ONS - analysis of enterprises for Cornwall by broad industry group, 2020 to 2022(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- ONS - companies in Cornwall by sub-class and size(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- ONS - UK business: activity, size and location (dataset)(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- ONS - activity, size and location (topic page)(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- ONS - UK business: activity, size and location, 2025 release(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- ONS - Cornwall (E06000052) local indicators(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Nomis - UK business counts(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Cornwall Business Observatory - Cornwall business activity, size and location(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Companies House - find and update company information(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- GOV.UK - get information about a company(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
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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).
Cite as: "seocornwall.uk Cornwall Business Population Benchmark", updated 2026-11-01, https://seocornwall.uk/datasets/cornwall-business-population-benchmark/.
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Questions this data answers
How many businesses are there in Cornwall for these agencies to sell to, and how crowded is the county's supply?
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.
Where do the figures in the Cornwall Business Population Benchmark come from?
Every figure is quoted from its source's own page and dated (last read 21 Oct 2026). 10 named sources were read and 2 publish a figure; the 8 that publish none are recorded as not published, never estimated.