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Title: how do you find out market size
Post by: richywilts on July 19, 2011, 03:25:32 pm

anyone got any tips to find out market size of your area i.e number of houses in your town??

iv rang council but said i need to pop in n get from electoral records

is there any easier ways??? i.e from internet

Title: Re: how do you find out market size
Post by: d s windowcleaning on July 19, 2011, 03:37:24 pm

google search number of houses in a area

Title: Re: how do you find out market size
Post by: Perfect Windows on July 19, 2011, 03:44:14 pm

Go here: http://www.statistics.gov.uk/census2001/cn_105.asp

About five lines from the bottom, click on the CSV link.

It downloads a file that extracts itself into another set of files.  One of them is an explanation of the headings in the other files, which makes the nonsense mean something.  You'll need Excel or Open Office to read them.

From that lot, you can check by postcode sector how many semis, detached, flats etc there are.

All data from 2001 but that should be OK for most areas.

Hope that helps,

Vin

Title: Re: how do you find out market size
Post by: Steve CM on July 19, 2011, 04:08:24 pm

Why would you want to know how many houses are in your twn/city? you ain't gonna be able to clean them all so don't worry.

the more doors you knock = the more customers you gain

Title: Re: how do you find out market size
Post by: Ian101 on July 20, 2011, 10:26:06 pm

Experian data .... I used it for my business plan last year