Where department stores is growing in the UK
161 department stores outlets across 8 brands are in the h3hex Data Store in the November 2026 release. In the local-area tables Birmingham has the most, with 5, or 0.0 per 10,000 residents; the top 25 local areas together hold 70 (44% of outlets with a mapped local area).
Outlet and brand counts are the Data Store's: every brand on sale, with every outlet in its file. The local-area and growth tables count the trading outlets in h3hex's master dataset that map to a local area, so their totals can be lower.
Which local areas have the most department stores outlets?
| # | Local area | Outlets | Brands present | Per 10,000 residents |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Birmingham | 5 | 4: Flannels, Harvey Nichols, House of Fraser, Selfridges | 0.0 |
| 2 | Glasgow City | 5 | 4: Flannels, Harrods, House of Fraser, John Lewis | - |
| 3 | City of Edinburgh | 4 | 4: Flannels, Harrods, Harvey Nichols, John Lewis | - |
| 4 | Hillingdon | 4 | 1: Harrods | 0.1 |
| 5 | Westminster | 4 | 4: Flannels, John Lewis, Liberty, Selfridges | 0.2 |
| 6 | Kensington and Chelsea | 3 | 3: Harrods, Harvey Nichols, John Lewis | 0.2 |
| 7 | Kingston upon Thames | 3 | 3: Fenwick, Flannels, John Lewis | 0.2 |
| 8 | Leeds | 3 | 3: Flannels, Harvey Nichols, John Lewis | 0.0 |
| 9 | Manchester | 3 | 3: Flannels, Harvey Nichols, House of Fraser | 0.1 |
| 10 | Milton Keynes | 3 | 3: Flannels, Harrods, John Lewis | 0.1 |
| 11 | Newcastle upon Tyne | 3 | 3: Fenwick, Flannels, John Lewis | 0.1 |
| 12 | Norwich | 3 | 3: Flannels, House of Fraser, John Lewis | 0.2 |
| 13 | Thurrock | 3 | 2: Flannels, Harrods | 0.2 |
| 14 | Barnet | 2 | 2: Fenwick, John Lewis | 0.0 |
| 15 | Belfast | 2 | 2: Flannels, House of Fraser | - |
| 16 | Blackpool | 2 | 2: Flannels, House of Fraser | 0.1 |
| 17 | Buckinghamshire | 2 | 2: House of Fraser, John Lewis | 0.0 |
| 18 | Cambridge | 2 | 2: Flannels, John Lewis | 0.1 |
| 19 | Cardiff | 2 | 2: Flannels, John Lewis | 0.1 |
| 20 | Chelmsford | 2 | 2: Flannels, John Lewis | 0.1 |
| 21 | Cheshire West and Chester | 2 | 2: Flannels, Harrods | 0.1 |
| 22 | Chichester | 2 | 2: Flannels, John Lewis | 0.2 |
| 23 | Dartford | 2 | 2: Flannels, John Lewis | 0.2 |
| 24 | Derby | 2 | 2: Flannels, House of Fraser | 0.1 |
| 25 | Dundee City | 2 | 2: Flannels, House of Fraser | - |
Local areas are local authority districts. Brands present shows how many brands have an outlet there and the five with the most.
Which local areas added the most department stores outlets?
| # | Local area | Net change | Previous release | This release | All outlets now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Birmingham | 0 | 2 | 2 | 5 |
| 2 | Glasgow City | 0 | 2 | 2 | 5 |
Net change in outlets for brands present in both releases, for local areas with at least 5 outlets in the sector. 5 brands in this sector first appear in this release and are left out of the growth table, so that adding a brand to the data is never counted as an area growing.
How these figures are made
Counts are h3hex's own store-by-store record of each brand's published UK locations for the brands listed in the Department stores sector of the h3hex data store, November 2026 release (scrape window 30 Oct - 3 Nov 2026), page built 2026-11-12. Closed, pre-opening and head-office records are left out. 2 outlets with no mappable postcode are counted in the totals but not in the local-area tables. Net change compares this release with the 29 October 2026 edition of the same dataset and reflects openings and closures as well as improved coverage of each brand's own locator. Resident population is Census 2021 usual-resident population by output area, summed to local authority district through the ONS postcode-to-output-area lookup (May 2024). The population table does not join to the lookup for districts in Northern Ireland and Scotland, so outlets per 10,000 residents is shown as - for them.
Use the data
Prospect site reports assess a single address against these brands, and the data store sells the department stores store lists brand by brand or as a sector bundle.
How many department stores outlets are there in the UK?
h3hex tracks 161 branded department stores outlets from 8 brands in the UK as at the November 2026 release. In the local-area tables, Birmingham has the most, with 5.
Which department stores brands are growing?
No department stores brand present in both releases added outlets between the previous release and the November 2026 release.
Which department stores brands have the most UK outlets?
Flannels (75), John Lewis (36) and House of Fraser (19), as at the November 2026 release.