# 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.

SEO Cornwall · https://seocornwall.uk/datasets/cornwall-business-population-benchmark/ · computed 2026-11-01

**Median published figure:** 1.87 % (range 1.84 to 1.9 %; 2 published figures; 2 of 10 sources read publish one).

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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| time March 2026 | 1.9 % | 1.9 to 1.9 % | 1 |

## Every figure, with its source

One row per source: the figure the source's own page publishes, the page, and the day it was read.

| Source | Figure | Breakdown | Read |
|---|---|---|---|
| [ONS - activity, size and location (topic page)](https://www.ons.gov.uk/businessindustryandtrade/business/activitysizeandlocation) | 1.9 % | March 2026 | 2026-10-12 |
| [Cornwall Business Observatory - Cornwall business activity, size and location](https://businessobservatory.com/cornwall-business/cornwall-business-activity-size-and-location-2020/) | 1.84 % |  | 2026-10-21 |

## The sentence each figure was read from (2)

- [ONS - activity, size and location (topic page)](https://www.ons.gov.uk/businessindustryandtrade/business/activitysizeandlocation), 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](https://businessobservatory.com/cornwall-business/cornwall-business-activity-size-and-location-2020/), 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

- [ONS - analysis of enterprises for Cornwall by broad industry group, 2020 to 2022](https://www.ons.gov.uk/businessindustryandtrade/business/activitysizeandlocation/adhocs/1415analysisofenterprisesintheukforcornwallbyselectedbroadindustrygroup2020to2022), read 2026-09-21: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- [ONS - companies in Cornwall by sub-class and size](https://www.ons.gov.uk/businessindustryandtrade/business/activitysizeandlocation/adhocs/008277companiesincornwallbysubclassandsize), read 2026-09-21: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- [ONS - UK business: activity, size and location (dataset)](https://www.ons.gov.uk/businessindustryandtrade/business/activitysizeandlocation/datasets/ukbusinessactivitysizeandlocation), read 2026-10-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- [ONS - UK business: activity, size and location, 2025 release](https://www.ons.gov.uk/releases/ukbusinessactivitysizeandlocation2025), read 2026-10-21: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- [ONS - Cornwall (E06000052) local indicators](https://www.ons.gov.uk/explore-local-statistics/areas/E06000052-cornwall/indicators), read 2026-10-21: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- [Nomis - UK business counts](https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/articles/1353.aspx), read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- [Companies House - find and update company information](https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/), read 2026-09-11: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- [GOV.UK - get information about a company](https://www.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

## Sources

- [ONS - analysis of enterprises for Cornwall by broad industry group, 2020 to 2022](https://www.ons.gov.uk/businessindustryandtrade/business/activitysizeandlocation/adhocs/1415analysisofenterprisesintheukforcornwallbyselectedbroadindustrygroup2020to2022) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [ONS - companies in Cornwall by sub-class and size](https://www.ons.gov.uk/businessindustryandtrade/business/activitysizeandlocation/adhocs/008277companiesincornwallbysubclassandsize) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [ONS - UK business: activity, size and location (dataset)](https://www.ons.gov.uk/businessindustryandtrade/business/activitysizeandlocation/datasets/ukbusinessactivitysizeandlocation) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [ONS - activity, size and location (topic page)](https://www.ons.gov.uk/businessindustryandtrade/business/activitysizeandlocation) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [ONS - UK business: activity, size and location, 2025 release](https://www.ons.gov.uk/releases/ukbusinessactivitysizeandlocation2025) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [ONS - Cornwall (E06000052) local indicators](https://www.ons.gov.uk/explore-local-statistics/areas/E06000052-cornwall/indicators) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [Nomis - UK business counts](https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/articles/1353.aspx) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [Cornwall Business Observatory - Cornwall business activity, size and location](https://businessobservatory.com/cornwall-business/cornwall-business-activity-size-and-location-2020/) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [Companies House - find and update company information](https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [GOV.UK - get information about a company](https://www.gov.uk/get-information-about-a-company) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)

## Cite or embed

- 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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