Where pubs & bars is growing in the UK
484 pubs & bars outlets across 6 brands are in the h3hex Data Store in the November 2026 release. In the local-area tables Birmingham has the most, with 10, or 0.1 per 10,000 residents; the top 25 local areas together hold 107 (28% 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 pubs & bars outlets?
| # | Local area | Outlets | Brands present | Per 10,000 residents |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Birmingham | 10 | 3: Toby Carvery, Harvester, Stonehouse Pizza & Carvery | 0.1 |
| 2 | Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole | 8 | 2: Harvester, Toby Carvery | 0.2 |
| 3 | Leeds | 6 | 3: Toby Carvery, Harvester, Stonehouse Pizza & Carvery | 0.1 |
| 4 | Westminster | 6 | 1: Simmons | 0.3 |
| 5 | Cardiff | 5 | 3: Harvester, Toby Carvery, Stonehouse Pizza & Carvery | 0.1 |
| 6 | Liverpool | 5 | 2: Toby Carvery, Stonehouse Pizza & Carvery | 0.1 |
| 7 | Basildon | 4 | 3: Harvester, Stonehouse Pizza & Carvery, Toby Carvery | 0.2 |
| 8 | Cheshire West and Chester | 4 | 2: Stonehouse Pizza & Carvery, Toby Carvery | 0.1 |
| 9 | Doncaster | 4 | 2: Stonehouse Pizza & Carvery, Toby Carvery | 0.1 |
| 10 | Dudley | 4 | 2: Harvester, Stonehouse Pizza & Carvery | 0.1 |
| 11 | Milton Keynes | 4 | 2: Harvester, Stonehouse Pizza & Carvery | 0.1 |
| 12 | Redbridge | 4 | 2: Harvester, Toby Carvery | 0.1 |
| 13 | Rhondda Cynon Taf | 4 | 2: Harvester, Stonehouse Pizza & Carvery | 0.2 |
| 14 | Solihull | 4 | 2: Toby Carvery, Stonehouse Pizza & Carvery | 0.2 |
| 15 | Wiltshire | 4 | 2: Harvester, Toby Carvery | 0.1 |
| 16 | Windsor and Maidenhead | 4 | 2: Harvester, Toby Carvery | 0.3 |
| 17 | Ashfield | 3 | 2: Stonehouse Pizza & Carvery, Toby Carvery | 0.2 |
| 18 | Bexley | 3 | 2: Harvester, Toby Carvery | 0.1 |
| 19 | Bolsover | 3 | 2: Stonehouse Pizza & Carvery, Harvester | 0.4 |
| 20 | Bolton | 3 | 2: Toby Carvery, Harvester | 0.1 |
| 21 | Brighton and Hove | 3 | 2: Stonehouse Pizza & Carvery, Harvester | 0.1 |
| 22 | Bromley | 3 | 2: Toby Carvery, Harvester | 0.1 |
| 23 | Buckinghamshire | 3 | 2: Harvester, Toby Carvery | 0.1 |
| 24 | Chelmsford | 3 | 2: Toby Carvery, Harvester | 0.2 |
| 25 | City of Edinburgh | 3 | 1: Toby Carvery | - |
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 pubs & bars outlets?
| # | Local area | Net change | Previous release | This release | All outlets now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Birmingham | 0 | 10 | 10 | 10 |
| 2 | Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole | 0 | 8 | 8 | 8 |
| 3 | Leeds | 0 | 6 | 6 | 6 |
| 4 | Westminster | 0 | 6 | 6 | 6 |
| 5 | Liverpool | 0 | 5 | 5 | 5 |
| 6 | Cardiff | 0 | 5 | 5 | 5 |
Net change in outlets for brands present in both releases, for local areas with at least 5 outlets in the sector. No brand in this sector is new to this release.
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 Pubs & Bars 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. 0 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 pubs & bars store lists brand by brand or as a sector bundle.
How many pubs & bars outlets are there in the UK?
h3hex tracks 484 branded pubs & bars outlets from 6 brands in the UK as at the November 2026 release. In the local-area tables, Birmingham has the most, with 10.
Which pubs & bars brands are growing?
Between the previous release and the November 2026 release, the brand adding the most outlets was Toby Carvery (+1).
Which pubs & bars brands have the most UK outlets?
Toby Carvery (149), Harvester (133) and Beefeater (103), as at the November 2026 release.