Standing view · business · Cornwall and Isles of Scilly
mixed, held with tentative confidence, formed on 5 October 2026 from movements in 2026.
Businesses employing 20 to 49 people in Cornwall and Isles of Scilly has been falling, while businesses employing 50 to 99 people has been rising, so this view is tentative. The 20 to 49 band stood at 870 in 2026, recorded as falling, and businesses employing 5 to 9 people at 3,210, also falling. Businesses employing 50 to 99 people was 230 in 2025 and 225 in 2026, rising in both years. Businesses employing 0 to 4 people numbered 19,620 in 2026. Bands moving in opposite directions is why no direction is claimed for the business base as a whole.
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 Cornwall and Isles of Scilly. Where no figure supports a direction we hold no view rather than a hedged one.
| Measure | Period | Direction |
|---|---|---|
| Businesses employing 50 to 99 people | 2025 | rising |
| Businesses employing 20 to 49 people | 2026 | falling |
| Businesses employing 5 to 9 people | 2026 | falling |
| Businesses employing 50 to 99 people | 2026 | rising |
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 0 to 4 people | 2026 | — |