What London's shops sell
Every mapped shop grouped into a practical retail taxonomy.
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| Series | Period or category | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Value | Food & groceries | 9,908 | mapped retail premises |
| Value | Other retail | 9,207 | mapped retail premises |
| Value | Beauty & hair | 7,599 | mapped retail premises |
| Value | Fashion | 4,025 | mapped retail premises |
| Value | Books, stationery & gifts | 2,040 | mapped retail premises |
| Value | Home & furniture | 1,838 | mapped retail premises |
| Value | Vehicles | 1,684 | mapped retail premises |
| Value | Computers & electronics | 1,157 | mapped retail premises |
| Value | DIY & hardware | 1,141 | mapped retail premises |
| Value | Second-hand & charity | 1,026 | mapped retail premises |
| Value | Pharmacy & optical | 1,026 | mapped retail premises |
| Value | Art, antiques & music | 804 | mapped retail premises |
| Value | Jewellery & watches | 798 | mapped retail premises |
| Value | Florists | 373 | mapped retail premises |
| Value | Bicycles | 332 | mapped retail premises |
| Value | Pets | 264 | mapped retail premises |
Methodology
Counts of OpenStreetMap shop features within Greater London, grouped from source tags. A feature is counted once even when a tiled query sees it twice. ‘Other retail’ preserves uncommon and emerging shop tags rather than silently dropping them; counts describe mapped records, not an official business census.
Provenance
- Cadence
- quarterly
- Engine
- comparison
- Licence
- Open Data Commons Open Database Licence (ODbL) v1.0