Agriculture succession in North East

Name: Agriculture business succession in North East
Creator: ExitRadar
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507 of 946 agriculture companies in North East — 53.6% — have a director aged 60 or over.

Companies measured946

Director aged 60+507

Exposure rate53.6%

Companies House register·Measured base 3,475,770·Data as at 13 August 2026·Full methodology

946

Companies measured

507

Director 60+

249

Director 70+

53.6%

Exposure rate

The UK average across all trades is 32.5%; agriculture nationally runs at 53.5%.

Measure	Companies
Agriculture companies in North East measured	946
Oldest director aged 60 or over	507
Oldest director aged 70 or over	249

Of the 507 with a director over 60, 57 score 50 or higher on business quality — an output of our own scoring model, not a Companies House figure. How we score it.

Agriculture in other regions

Region	60+	Rate
East of England	2,850	60.3%
Yorkshire & The Humber	1,667	57.7%
South West	2,777	56.9%
East Midlands	1,317	55.8%
Wales	1,194	54.8%
South East	2,670	53.8%
Scotland	2,266	51.5%
West Midlands	1,254	51.2%

Other trades in North East

Trade	60+	Rate
Lettings	1,725	34.4%
Consultancy Services	1,553	37.6%
Retail	1,165	24.4%
Engineering Services	920	30.2%
Other Leisure	917	30.5%
Investment	915	27.3%
Investment / Fund Management	662	35.9%
Property Development	616	42.7%

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

See all Agriculture succession data or everything in North East.

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ExitRadar, "Agriculture succession in North East", UK Business Succession Index, 13 August 2026. https://www.exitradar.co.uk/succession/svc-agriculture/north-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.