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The Guernsey Business CensusChapter 9 of 16

Automotive & Transport

179 organisations are counted with Automotive & Transport as their primary sector — 5% of everything with a sector on record, and the 9th largest of 16. A further 29 organisations work in it alongside another sector.

As of 11 October 2026⧉ Cite this chapterBrowse the Automotive & Transport directory← The whole census

The count

179

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

208Work in it at all
13Sub-sectors on record
10Parishes represented
120With capabilities mapped
11Capability domains

Coverage

#coverage ⧉

How complete is this sector’s count?

179 counted & publishedmeasured coverage 79%

An estimated 79% of this sector’s organisations are counted — the 6th-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 with what they do resolved to the capability graph67%A capability on record for 120 of 179 organisations (67%)120 of 179, against 71% island-wide, the 3rd-lowest capability coverage of the 13 sectors where it can be counted; a median of 3 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 Automotive & Transport at all208Counted over all 3,573 active organisations29 more than the 179 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 of parish-known Automotive & Transport based in St Peter Port1 in 3A parish on record for 164 of 179 organisations (92%)52 of the 164 whose parish is on record — a concentration of 0.74 against the parish's share of everything counted.
Organisations whose main line of work is Automotive & Transport179Of the 3,539 organisations with a primary sector (100% of 3,539)5% of the organisations with a primary sector on record — the 9th largest of 16 sectors counted.

What stands out

#signature ⧉

Car Services leads on 53; Boat & Marine is the second largest on 39

Every organisation is counted once, in its primary sub-sector, so the bars sum to the sector. Boat & Marine is 22% of it, ahead of Taxis & Private Hire (26) and Car Sales (17).

Primary sub-sector#signature-composition ⧉

Automotive & Transport by sub-sector

Counted over all 179 active Automotive & Transport organisations

Car Services53 30%Boat & Marine39 22%Taxis & Private Hire26 15%Car Sales17 9%Car Wash & Valeting8 4%Fuel & Charging7 4%Vehicle Parts & Accessories7 4%Bicycles6 3%Motorcycles & Scooters6 3%Vehicle Hire6 3%Tyres & Exhausts2 1%Vehicle Storage1 1%Vehicle Transport & Shipping1 1%

Counts each organisation's primary sub-sector, so the bars sum to the sector.

29 further organisations work in Automotive & Transport 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".

Parishes

#parishes ⧉

St Peter Port holds 52 Automotive & Transport organisations

1 in 3 of the 164 whose parish is on record. Off Guernsey: 4 on Alderney and 2 on Sark.

Headcount#parishes-count ⧉

Automotive & Transport organisations by parish

A parish on record for 164 of 179 Automotive & Transport organisations (92%)

Organisations052
St Peter P…52St Sampson26Vale41Castel13St Saviour2St Pierre du Bois3Torteval1Forest11St Martin12St 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.

9 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 organisations trade on Alderney, Sark or Herm and are counted in the island split rather than on this map.

Concentration#parishes-lq ⧉

Where Automotive & Transport is over- and under-represented

A parish on record for 164 of 179 Automotive & Transport organisations (92%)

Share vs the islandunder ½×below island share≈ island shareup to 2×over 2×
St Peter P…0.74St Sampson1.19Vale1.93Castel0.94St Saviour—St Pierre du Bois—Torteval—Forest2.04St Martin0.82St 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.

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 ⧉

Automotive & Transport organisations by founding era

A founding year on record for 82 of 179 Automotive & Transport organisations (46%)

On record for 46% — indicative
0102030pre-18001950–792000–09272020s

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 2003. The island's median is 2006.

Capabilities

#capabilities ⧉

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

67% of the sector have at least one service resolved to the graph, across 11 domains, against 71% island-wide, the 3rd-lowest capability coverage of the 13 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.

By group#capability-groups ⧉

Capability groups on record

A capability on record for 120 of 179 Automotive & Transport organisations (67%)

Servicing & mechanical repair33 28%Bodywork, paint & detailing24 20%Vehicle sales & hire24 20%Tyres, parts & accessories23 19%Marine trades & services20 17%Passenger transport16 13%Driving instruction14 12%Fuel & charging8 7%Transport, freight & storage7 6%Charter, hire & passenger5 4%Recovery & breakdown4 3%Fishing & aquaculture2 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.

52 of the 120 with a capability on record span two or more of these groups (43%). 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 120 of 179 Automotive & Transport organisations (67%)

Vehicle repairs & servicing32 27%MOT & scheduled servicing18 15%Boat repair & maintenance15 13%Body & accident repair15 13%Tyre fitting & supply15 13%Diagnostics & fault-finding14 12%Driving school & lessons13 11%Used car sales13 11%Airport & harbour transfers10 8%Detailing & valeting10 8%Private hire taxi10 8%Boat sales & brokerage8 7%

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 120 of 179 Automotive & Transport organisations (67%)

Organisations018
Vehicle repa…MOT & schedu…Boat repair…Body & accid…Tyre fitting…Diagnostics…Driving scho…Used car sal…Airport & ha…Detailing &…Private hire…Boat sales &…Vehicle repa…MOT & schedu…Boat repair…Body & accid…Tyre fitting…Diagnostics…Driving scho…Used car sal…Airport & ha…Detailing &…Private hire…Boat sales &…

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 106 of 179 Automotive & Transport organisations (59%)

On record for 59% — indicative
This is what they do82 77%Core to the business66 62%One of many services31 29%A sideline12 11%

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 ⧉

59% of Automotive & Transport organisations have a website of their own

Against 67% island-wide — 8 points below the island rate, the 2nd-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 179 active Automotive & Transport organisations

Automotive & TransportThe island
0%50%100%Has a website59%67%Website on a .gg domain23%27%Links a social account of any kind45%50%Links a Facebook page44%47%

Each track carries both values at its ends; the gap between automotive & transport 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.

Automotive & Transport organisations with a website of their own105Counted over all 179 active Automotive & Transport organisationsA site of their own on record — not a directory listing or a social page.
Of those websites, the share on a .gg domain39%Counted over all 179 active Automotive & Transport organisations41 of 105, against 40% of the 2,407 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.

Legal form#form-legal ⧉

Automotive & Transport organisations by legal form

A legal form on record for 80 of 179 Automotive & Transport organisations (45%)

On record for 45% — indicative
Limited company68 85%Sole trader10 13%Partnership1 1%States entity1 1%

Sole traders are the systematic undercount here: a limited company publishes its form, a sole trader rarely does.

A further 9 organisations hold something in the legal-form slot that is not a legal form — filing notes, a bare year. Those leave the denominator rather than inflating “other”.

Opening hours

#hours ⧉

The sector’s working week

Seven days, twenty-four hours#hours-clock ⧉

Automotive & Transport organisations open, by day and hour

Opening hours on record for 86 of 179 Automotive & Transport organisations (48%)

On record for 48% — indicative
Organisations open086
00061218MonTueWedThuFriSatSunmidnight ↑

1 in 5 of those publishing a weekly grid open on a Sunday, and 58% on a Saturday. The median week runs 50 hours. Published opening hours only; a business that does not publish hours is not counted as closed. 122 hold hours of some shape, of which 86 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

+68
Automotive & Transport organisations added to the register (discovery, not openings)
2
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.

census.csvsector × parishcensus.jsonevery aggregateAbout the dataFull methodologyPress desk
Island Graph, The Guernsey Business Census — Automotive & Transport, island.gg/census/automotive-transport — as of 11 October 2026.

The whole census →

How this chapter counts

#method ⧉

The bases every figure here divides by

This chapter counts over the 179 active organisations whose primary sector is Automotive & Transport — 5% of the 3,539 with a primary sector on record; the wider 208 who work in Automotive & Transport 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 164, a founding year for 82, a capability resolved to the graph for 120, opening hours that resolve to a weekly grid for 86 — and those bases are printed under every chart, because the denominator is part of the datum.

This sector’s own coverage was measured at 79% on 30 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 →