Data
This page shows the current figures for our UK dataset, the breakdown by nation, the contact coverage, the sources still in progress and official comparison figures; every figure is given with its source and date.
Data as at 4 November 2026 · Official figures: ONS (March 2026) · Companies House snapshot of 1 November 2026
Counted on 4 November 2026: 2 676 396 records, 2 566 320 of them with phone, email or website. The records come from the open map data of Overture Maps (release 2026-10-21.0, licence CDLA Permissive 2.0); email addresses also come from the businesses’ own websites, which we are still reading. Still in progress and not yet included in the figures: the Companies House register (matching in progress) and phone numbers from company websites (after checking). Collection is ongoing and we update the figures as it progresses.
As of 4 November 2026. Of 4 320 514 places in the UK extract of Overture Maps, we keep only those with a name and a confidence score of at least 0.77, leaving out natural features such as mountains, lakes and beaches; 1 632 537 places fell below that score and 11 581 were natural features. Active means: the source does not mark the place as permanently closed; 15 271 records are marked as closed. The contact figures refer to all records; a record can have several contact fields, so the figures overlap and must not be added up. Phone numbers so far come from Overture Maps only, and a number shared by three or more records with different names is not counted; numbers found on websites are not counted until they have been checked. An email address only counts as the record’s own address if it is not shared by three or more records with different names (at least 23 229 such addresses are excluded); data protection, newsletter and technical mailboxes such as dpo@, privacy@, newsletter@, noreply@ or webmaster@ never count as the record’s own address. With any email address there are 929 740 records, and 204 882 records have their own address only from their website. A record is a business or a site with its own location; a business with several locations can appear more than once.
We visit the websites listed in the UK map data, including those of places below our confidence threshold, and read their contact and legal pages for email addresses. On 4 November 2026 we had visited 910 010 domains; 603 041 of them were live websites, and 369 412 of these showed at least one email address of the business itself or a freemail address (addresses of web designers and role mailboxes such as dpo@ are not kept). Collection is still running, so these figures are a snapshot and will grow.
The free Companies House snapshot of 1 November 2026 lists 5 711 779 live companies, 5 596 581 of them with the status “Active” or “Active – Proposal to Strike off” (417 325 with a proposal to strike off). It contains company numbers, registered offices, company types, status and SIC codes, but no phone numbers, email addresses or websites. So far we have matched 293 744 company numbers with places in the Overture data, either by the full name confirmed by the street address or the website domain, or by a distinctive word of the name at the same address. The matching ran over all 4 320 514 Overture places in the UK, including places below our 0.77 confidence threshold; how many of the matched places are among the 2 676 396 records counted above has not been measured yet. The matching is not finished and is not included in the figures above. The download page states no licence; Companies House said on its forum (4 November 2021) that it “imposes no rules or requirements on how the information on the public register is used”.
Estimate, not a stock: as a guide to the size of the market, we take the 2 786 985 businesses registered for VAT and/or PAYE according to the ONS, UK business: activity, size and location 2026 (March 2026). Many very small sole traders are not registered for either and are not in that figure; on the other hand, not every registered business has a public location or contact details. We only deliver what the dataset actually contains and the quote confirms.
The nation follows from the postcode of the record’s address (for postcode districts that cross a border, the country most of the district lies in); without a postcode, from the region code in the map data. The number of businesses according to the ONS is shown alongside for comparison.
The table can be scrolled sideways.
| Nation | records | of them active | with contact | businesses (ONS) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| England | 2 253 660 | 2 240 664 | 2 171 477 | 2 423 150 |
| Scotland | 204 521 | 203 227 | 194 607 | 176 000 |
| Wales | 113 238 | 112 682 | 107 920 | 106 170 |
| Northern Ireland | 63 971 | 63 589 | 60 871 | 81 665 |
| no nation assigned | 41 006 | 40 963 | 31 445 | – |
| United Kingdom | 2 676 396 | 2 661 125 | 2 566 320 | 2 786 985 |
With contact = with phone, website or own email address. No nation assigned = no valid UK postcode and no usable region code, for example places in the Crown Dependencies. Official figure: ONS, UK business: activity, size and location 2026, enterprises in March 2026, published 24 September 2026, retrieved on 4 November 2026. Our records have not been matched to the statistical definition of a business (one business can have several locations, some records are places without a business registered for VAT or PAYE behind them), so the two columns are not directly comparable.
The 21 industries with their UK SIC 2007 codes, the official number of businesses and the price for a one-off export of the whole industry (full price). None of the records in our dataset has been assigned to an industry yet, so there are no figures of our own per industry. The quote states the scope of your selection.
The table can be scrolled sideways.
| Industry | UK SIC 2007 | Official figure | in our dataset | Industry price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Professional and business services | SIC 69, 70, 73 | 262 090 businesses in the UK | – | £379 |
| Construction and building trades | SIC 41, 42, 43 | 392 850 businesses in the UK | – | £379 |
| Manufacturing | SIC 13–33 | 116 040 businesses in the UK | – | £349 |
| Real estate and property management | SIC 68 | 130 040 businesses in the UK | – | £349 |
| Energy, water and waste | SIC 35, 36–39 | 15 720 businesses in the UK | – | £309 |
| Hospitality and tourism | SIC 55, 56, 79 | 190 380 businesses in the UK | – | £349 |
| Agriculture and food production | SIC 01–03, 10–11 | 152 520 businesses in the UK | – | £349 |
| Transport and logistics | SIC 49–53 | 119 195 businesses in the UK | – | £309 |
| IT and software | SIC 62, 63 | 132 105 businesses in the UK | – | £349 |
| Architects and engineering consultancies | SIC 71 | 81 090 businesses in the UK | – | £349 |
| Health, social care and wellbeing | SIC 86–88, 96.02, 96.04 | 178 350 businesses in the UK | – | £269 |
| Finance and insurance | SIC 64–66 | 59 005 businesses in the UK | – | £229 |
| Councils and public sector bodies | SIC 84 | 8150 businesses in the UK | – | £309 |
| Motor trade and garages | SIC 45 | 84 785 businesses in the UK | – | £199 |
| Retail and online retail | SIC 47, −47.73, −47.74 | 207 535 businesses in the UK | – | £309 |
| Wholesale and trade agents | SIC 46 | 100 850 businesses in the UK | – | £349 |
| Pharmacies, opticians and hearing care | SIC 47.73, 47.74, 47.78 | 8395 businesses in the UK | – | £309 |
| Education and training | SIC 85 | 51 745 businesses in the UK | – | £269 |
| Associations, sport and culture | SIC 90–93, 94 | 101 020 businesses in the UK | – | £229 |
| Cleaning, facilities and landscaping | SIC 81 | 55 570 businesses in the UK | – | £309 |
| Recruitment and staffing agencies | SIC 78 | 30 260 businesses in the UK | – | £349 |
– = no industry assignment in the dataset yet. Official figure: ONS, UK business: activity, size and location 2026 (businesses registered for VAT and/or PAYE in March 2026, by UK SIC 2007 division and class; every value rounded to 5 by the ONS). What is counted per industry is given on each industry page. The industry figures cannot be added up to the total, because some industries are only parts of a division.
Share of records with a stored phone number, own email address or website, across all records and across active records only. There are no figures per industry yet.
The table can be scrolled sideways.
| Field | all records | share | active records | share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Phone number | 2 287 177 | 85,5% | 2 273 637 | 85,4% |
| Own email address | 745 988 | 27,9% | 743 504 | 27,9% |
| Website | 2 185 581 | 81,7% | 2 175 566 | 81,8% |
| at least one of these contacts | 2 566 320 | 95,9% | 2 551 955 | 95,9% |
| All records | 2 676 396 | 100% | 2 661 125 | 100% |
The records come from map data, which mainly list businesses with a location and contact details; the shares apply to these records, not to all businesses in the UK. The share describes for how many records a contact field is stored, not how many numbers or mailboxes can be reached. Email addresses have not been checked for deliverability.
Phone, email address and website help you match records in your CRM, detect duplicates and contact businesses. Under PECR, marketing emails to limited companies, PLCs and LLPs need no prior consent if you identify yourself and offer an opt-out; sole traders and partnerships outside Scotland need consent or a soft opt-in (regulation 22(3)). Before sales calls, numbers must be screened against TPS and CTPS (regulation 21); the export is not screened. More in the guide PECR rules for B2B email and calls.
For a clean import, handle empty fields and possible duplicates explicitly in your import process. The export and sample file page shows the columns and checks.
The following figures come from the ONS, Companies House and Eurostat. They describe the market, not our dataset, and count by their own rules.
UK: ONS, UK business: activity, size and location 2026, published 24 September 2026, retrieved on 4 November 2026; local units: ONS workbook, Table 16. Register: Companies House BasicCompanyData, counted by reading the whole snapshot on 4 November 2026. EU: Eurostat, Structural Business Statistics (sbs_ovw_act), EU-27. More: EU and other markets and UK business statistics.
2 676 396 records, 2 661 125 of them active and 2 566 320 with at least one contact (2 287 177 with phone, 745 988 with own email address, 2 185 581 with website), plus the breakdown by nation. Sources: Overture Maps and company websites; Companies House matching in progress.
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