UK Business Succession Index

Demolition & Site Prep succession in Yorkshire & The Humber

120 of 337 demolition & site prep companies in Yorkshire & The Humber — 35.6% — have a director aged 60 or over.

Companies measured337
Director aged 60+120
Exposure rate35.6%
Companies House register·Measured base 3,475,770·Data as at 13 August 2026·Full methodology
337
Companies measured
120
Director 60+
37
Director 70+
35.6%
Exposure rate

The UK average across all trades is 32.5%; demolition & site prep nationally runs at 30.7%.

MeasureCompanies
Demolition & Site Prep companies in Yorkshire & The Humber measured337
Oldest director aged 60 or over120
Oldest director aged 70 or over37

Of the 120 with a director over 60, 16 score 50 or higher on business quality — an output of our own scoring model, not a Companies House figure. How we score it.

Demolition & Site Prep in other regions

Region60+Rate
North West15336%
South West12133.2%
South East16232.3%
East of England12630.5%
West Midlands9627.2%
London16021.3%

Other trades in Yorkshire & The Humber

Trade60+Rate
Lettings4,68236.3%
Consultancy Services4,37437.5%
Retail3,30223%
Investment2,33529.2%
Other Leisure2,22730.5%
Investment / Fund Management2,12436.9%
Engineering Services1,73638.2%
Agriculture1,66757.7%

Combinations with fewer than 250 measured companies are not listed separately. They are still counted in every total on this page.

Next step

This page counts director ages across the whole register. If you are looking to buy rather than to research, our Construction & Trades pages go further: we score each company on business quality and exit timing, and shortlist the ones worth approaching.

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ExitRadar, "Demolition & Site Prep succession in Yorkshire & The Humber", UK Business Succession Index, 13 August 2026. https://www.exitradar.co.uk/succession/const-demolition/yorkshire-and-the-humber/

Need a cut that is not published here — a different trade grouping, a finer geography, or the underlying distribution? Get in touch and we will usually provide it. Methodology.

Method. Figures cover the 3,475,770 active UK companies where Companies House records an age bracket for at least one serving director — 93.8% of the 3,706,712 companies on the active register. A company counts as succession-exposed when its oldest serving director is 60 or over — not the board average, which would hide a 70-year-old founder sitting alongside younger co-directors. The business-quality figure covers only the subset our model assesses — see the methodology for why that is far smaller than the number with filed accounts. Data as at 13 August 2026; updated quarterly, next update October 2026. Full methodology.