Where home & garden is growing in the UK
1,520 home & garden outlets across 17 brands are in the h3hex Data Store in the November 2026 release. In the local-area tables Buckinghamshire has the most, with 20, or 0.3 per 10,000 residents; the top 25 local areas together hold 310 (20% of outlets with a mapped local area). The largest like-for-like net gain since the previous release is in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole (+1).
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 home & garden outlets?
| # | Local area | Outlets | Brands present | Per 10,000 residents |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Buckinghamshire | 20 | 12: Kutchenhaus Kitchens, Dreams Beds, Dunelm, Homebase, Homesense | 0.3 |
| 2 | Kirklees | 16 | 10: British Garden Centres, DFS, Dreams Beds, Homebase, ScS | 0.4 |
| 3 | ONS area E06000066 | 16 | 9: Homebase, Dunelm, Kutchenhaus Kitchens, Magnet Kitchens, DFS | 0.3 |
| 4 | Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole | 15 | 9: DFS, Dreams Beds, Homebase, Homesense, Magnet Kitchens | 0.4 |
| 5 | ONS area E06000065 | 15 | 9: British Garden Centres, Homebase, Magnet Kitchens, The White Company, Dreams Beds | 0.2 |
| 6 | Cardiff | 14 | 10: DFS, Dreams Beds, Homebase, ScS, Dunelm | 0.4 |
| 7 | Birmingham | 13 | 9: Dreams Beds, Dunelm, Homebase, The White Company, British Garden Centres | 0.1 |
| 8 | Glasgow City | 13 | 8: Homebase, Magnet Kitchens, ScS, The White Company, DFS | - |
| 9 | Sheffield | 13 | 10: Homebase, Dunelm, British Garden Centres, DFS, Dreams Beds | 0.2 |
| 10 | Trafford | 13 | 9: Dreams Beds, Dunelm, The White Company, Wren Kitchens, DFS | 0.5 |
| 11 | Wiltshire | 13 | 9: Dreams Beds, Dunelm, Robert Dyas, DFS, Homebase | 0.2 |
| 12 | Barnet | 12 | 8: Robert Dyas, Dreams Beds, Dunelm, DFS, Homesense | 0.3 |
| 13 | City of Edinburgh | 12 | 9: Homebase, Magnet Kitchens, Wren Kitchens, DFS, Dreams Beds | - |
| 14 | Leeds | 12 | 9: Dunelm, Homesense, Magnet Kitchens, British Garden Centres, Dreams Beds | 0.1 |
| 15 | Bromley | 11 | 7: Dreams Beds, Kutchenhaus Kitchens, Magnet Kitchens, Robert Dyas, Homebase | 0.3 |
| 16 | Nottingham | 11 | 9: Dreams Beds, Homebase, DFS, Dunelm, Homesense | 0.3 |
| 17 | South Gloucestershire | 11 | 9: DFS, Dreams Beds, Dunelm, Homebase, Homesense | 0.4 |
| 18 | Tunbridge Wells | 11 | 11: British Garden Centres, DFS, Dreams Beds, Homesense, Kutchenhaus Kitchens | 0.9 |
| 19 | Cheshire East | 10 | 7: Dreams Beds, Kutchenhaus Kitchens, Magnet Kitchens, Dunelm, Nolte Kitchens UK | 0.2 |
| 20 | Enfield | 10 | 9: Wren Kitchens, British Garden Centres, DFS, Dreams Beds, Dunelm | 0.3 |
| 21 | Gateshead | 10 | 9: ScS, DFS, Dreams Beds, Dunelm, Homebase | 0.5 |
| 22 | Milton Keynes | 10 | 10: DFS, Dreams Beds, Dunelm, Homebase, Homesense | 0.3 |
| 23 | Sefton | 10 | 8: Dunelm, Wren Kitchens, DFS, Dreams Beds, Homebase | 0.3 |
| 24 | York | 10 | 10: DFS, Dreams Beds, Dunelm, Homebase, Homesense | 0.5 |
| 25 | Bolton | 9 | 9: British Garden Centres, DFS, Dreams Beds, Dunelm, Homebase | 0.3 |
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 home & garden outlets?
| # | Local area | Net change | Previous release | This release | All outlets now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole | +1 | 11 | 12 | 15 |
| 2 | West Northamptonshire | +1 | 6 | 7 | 9 |
| 3 | Eastleigh | +1 | 5 | 6 | 8 |
| 4 | Stafford | +1 | 4 | 5 | 8 |
| 5 | Peterborough | +1 | 4 | 5 | 7 |
| 6 | Sevenoaks | +1 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| 7 | Conwy | +1 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| 8 | Buckinghamshire | 0 | 12 | 12 | 20 |
| 9 | ONS area E06000066 | 0 | 11 | 11 | 16 |
| 10 | Kirklees | 0 | 13 | 13 | 16 |
| 11 | ONS area E06000065 | 0 | 12 | 12 | 15 |
| 12 | Cardiff | 0 | 11 | 11 | 14 |
| 13 | Wiltshire | 0 | 11 | 11 | 13 |
| 14 | Trafford | 0 | 9 | 9 | 13 |
| 15 | Sheffield | 0 | 11 | 11 | 13 |
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 Home & Garden 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. 1 outlets with no mappable postcode are counted in the totals but not in the local-area tables. 4 districts created in 2023 are shown by their ONS code because the postcode lookup used here carries no name for them. 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 home & garden store lists brand by brand or as a sector bundle.
Home & Garden by sector
- Homewares retailing370 outlets · 4 brands
- Kitchen showroom retailer346 outlets · 3 brands
- Garden centre265 outlets · 2 brands
- Sofa specialist213 outlets · 2 brands
How many home & garden outlets are there in the UK?
h3hex tracks 1,520 branded home & garden outlets from 17 brands in the UK as at the November 2026 release. In the local-area tables, Buckinghamshire has the most, with 20.
Which home & garden brands are growing?
Between the previous release and the November 2026 release, the brands adding the most outlets were Dunelm (+4) and ScS (+4).
Which home & garden brands have the most UK outlets?
Dreams Beds (216), Dunelm (196) and Homebase (185), as at the November 2026 release.