Standing view · business · Gwynedd
falling, held with established confidence, formed on 5 October 2026 from movements in 2026.
Businesses employing 10 to 19 people in Gwynedd has been falling, across two separate years. The band stood at 365 in 2024 and 330 in 2026, recorded as falling in both against the usual pattern for its year. Other parts of the base held or grew: businesses employing 20 to 49 people was 140 in 2024 and 155 in 2026, businesses employing 5 to 9 people 655 in 2025, and business sites 6,630 in 2024, 6,640 in 2025 and 6,715 in 2026. One band shrinking while sites edge up is a change in the shape of the employer base rather than its size.
A view is formed only where the evidence names a figure you can check. Each movement listed as a reason had to be large enough to matter and distinctive in at least one way — unusual against this area's own history, unusual against comparable areas, or sustained over several periods. A movement shared with peers counts for less, because it says something about the country rather than about Gwynedd. Where no figure supports a direction we hold no view rather than a hedged one.
| Measure | Period | Direction |
|---|---|---|
| Businesses employing 10 to 19 people | 2024 | falling |
| Businesses employing 10 to 19 people | 2026 | falling |
These figures carry no defensible direction of their own: a rising house price is good news to an owner and bad news to someone trying to buy, so we do not score one as an improvement. They are shown because they are part of the picture, and they did not decide the view above.
| Measure | Period | Series |
|---|---|---|
| Businesses employing 20 to 49 people | 2024 | — |
| Business sites | 2024 | — |
| Businesses employing 5 to 9 people | 2025 | — |
| Business sites | 2025 | — |
| Businesses employing 20 to 49 people | 2026 | — |
| Business sites | 2026 | — |