UK Business Succession Index

Roofing succession in South East

441 of 1,927 roofing companies in South East — 22.9% — have a director aged 60 or over.

Companies measured1,927
Director aged 60+441
Exposure rate22.9%
Companies House register·Measured base 3,475,770·Data as at 13 August 2026·Full methodology
1,927
Companies measured
441
Director 60+
114
Director 70+
22.9%
Exposure rate

The UK average across all trades is 32.5%; roofing nationally runs at 24.1%.

MeasureCompanies
Roofing companies in South East measured1,927
Oldest director aged 60 or over441
Oldest director aged 70 or over114

Of the 441 with a director over 60, 43 score 50 or higher on business quality — an output of our own scoring model, not a Companies House figure. How we score it.

Roofing in other regions

Region60+Rate
Wales14231.8%
West Midlands26728.6%
South West30828.1%
East Midlands18927.7%
East of England32825.7%
Yorkshire & The Humber23023.8%
Scotland20823.1%
North West29522.3%

Other trades in South East

Trade60+Rate
Consultancy Services14,45541.6%
Lettings9,87342.9%
Retail6,01526.7%
IT Services / Consultancy5,39225.7%
Investment5,38533.7%
Other Leisure5,36433.2%
Investment / Fund Management4,38040.3%
Property Development4,17046.3%

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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See all Roofing succession data or everything in South East.

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ExitRadar, "Roofing succession in South East", UK Business Succession Index, 13 August 2026. https://www.exitradar.co.uk/succession/const-roofing/south-east/

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.