Agriculture succession in Northern Ireland

Name: Agriculture business succession in Northern Ireland
Creator: ExitRadar
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789 of 1,691 agriculture companies in Northern Ireland (46.7%) have a director aged 60 or over.

Companies measured1,691

Director aged 60+789

Exposure rate46.7%

Companies House register·Measured base 3,631,842·Data as at 11 October 2026·Full methodology

1,691

Companies measured

789

Director 60+

354

Director 70+

46.7%

Exposure rate

The UK average across all trades is 32.4%; agriculture nationally runs at 53.1%.

Measure	Companies
Agriculture companies in Northern Ireland measured	1,691
Oldest director aged 60 or over	789
Oldest director aged 70 or over	354

Of the 789 with a director over 60, 126 score 50 or higher on business quality. That figure is an output of our own scoring model, not a Companies House figure. How we score it.

Agriculture in other regions

Region	60+	Rate
East Midlands	1,927	58.6%
East of England	2,742	58.1%
Yorkshire & The Humber	1,653	56.9%
South West	2,727	56.2%
South East	2,792	53.2%
North East	445	53.1%
Wales	994	52.2%
West Midlands	1,527	52%

Other trades in Northern Ireland

Trade	60+	Rate
Lettings	1,347	44.1%
Retail	1,052	25.8%
Investment	970	43.9%
Consultancy Services	885	36.5%
General Construction	817	40.4%
Investment / Fund Management	731	39.4%
Property Development	722	46.3%
Other Leisure	712	36.7%

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

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ExitRadar, "Agriculture succession in Northern Ireland", UK Business Succession Index, 11 October 2026. https://www.exitradar.co.uk/succession/svc-agriculture/northern-ireland/

Need a cut that is not published here, such as 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 3,631,842 active UK companies where Companies House records an age bracket for at least one serving director (94.0% of the 3,863,328 companies on the active register). A company counts as succession-exposed when its oldest serving director is 60 or over. We do not use 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 11 October 2026; updated quarterly, next update January 2027. Full methodology.