Best areas to open hair & beauty salon in East
45 East local authorities ranked by the Gera Business Location Score — real rent, wages, rates and market density.
Where is the best place to open a hair or beauty salon in East?
In East, the best area to open a hair or beauty salon is Great Yarmouth, with a Gera Business Location Score of 64/100: premises at £70/m²/yr and local median pay £26,484. Three Rivers ranks lowest of 45 East authorities at 34.9/100. From 2025 UK government open data; re-dated annually.
Gera Business Location Score
Top East area for hair & beauty salon: Great Yarmouth.
How this is calculatedEast ranked for hair & beauty salon
| # | Local authority | GBLS | Rent (£/m²/yr) | Local pay | Rates / 100 m² |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Great Yarmouth | 64/100 | £70 | £26,484 | £3,024 |
| 2 | Fenland | 62.6/100 | £80 | £27,005 | £3,456 |
| 3 | North Norfolk | 60.9/100 | £105 | £26,296 | £4,536 |
| 4 | Breckland | 60.6/100 | £92 | £28,303 | £3,974 |
| 5 | Maldon | 60.3/100 | £115 | £25,496 | £4,968 |
| 6 | Tendring | 60.1/100 | £104 | £27,067 | £4,493 |
| 7 | Babergh | 60/100 | £114 | £25,785 | £4,925 |
| 8 | King's Lynn and West Norfolk | 59.8/100 | £89 | £30,544 | £3,845 |
| 9 | South Norfolk | 59.4/100 | £100 | £29,114 | £4,320 |
| 10 | East Suffolk | 58.8/100 | £101 | £30,821 | £4,363 |
| 11 | Norwich | 58.6/100 | £114 | £28,457 | £4,925 |
| 12 | West Suffolk | 58.5/100 | £117 | £29,613 | £5,054 |
| 13 | Castle Point | 58.1/100 | £123 | £27,524 | £5,314 |
| 14 | Mid Suffolk | 58.1/100 | £99 | £32,413 | £4,277 |
| 15 | Ipswich | 58/100 | £108 | £30,605 | £4,666 |
| 16 | Rochford | 57.3/100 | £136 | £26,706 | £5,875 |
| 17 | Braintree | 56.8/100 | £112 | £32,175 | £4,838 |
| 18 | Southend-on-Sea | 56.6/100 | £140 | £26,955 | £6,048 |
| 19 | Bedford | 56.4/100 | £109 | £33,148 | £4,709 |
| 20 | Peterborough | 56.2/100 | £120 | £31,062 | £5,184 |
| 21 | Dacorum | 56/100 | £191 | £18,675 | £8,251 |
| 22 | Broadland | 56/100 | £117 | £32,576 | £5,054 |
| 23 | Colchester | 55.3/100 | £131 | £31,056 | £5,659 |
| 24 | East Cambridgeshire | 55.2/100 | £139 | £30,232 | £6,005 |
| 25 | Central Bedfordshire | 55/100 | £134 | £30,963 | £5,789 |
| 26 | Huntingdonshire | 54.8/100 | £131 | £32,441 | £5,659 |
| 27 | Luton | 54.5/100 | £140 | £29,640 | £6,048 |
| 28 | Uttlesford | 53.1/100 | £153 | £32,124 | £6,610 |
| 29 | Harlow | 52.6/100 | £149 | £32,320 | £6,437 |
| 30 | East Hertfordshire | 52.6/100 | £156 | £32,293 | £6,739 |
| 31 | Thurrock | 50.8/100 | £153 | £34,388 | £6,610 |
| 32 | Basildon | 50.7/100 | £168 | £32,050 | £7,258 |
| 33 | Broxbourne | 50.6/100 | £183 | £29,980 | £7,906 |
| 34 | Epping Forest | 50.1/100 | £193 | £30,038 | £8,338 |
| 35 | North Hertfordshire | 50/100 | £174 | £33,409 | £7,517 |
| 36 | Brentwood | 49.6/100 | £196 | £30,607 | £8,467 |
| 37 | Chelmsford | 48.9/100 | £189 | £32,010 | £8,165 |
| 38 | Watford | 48/100 | £197 | £31,833 | £8,510 |
| 39 | South Cambridgeshire | 46.2/100 | £167 | £41,348 | £7,214 |
| 40 | Stevenage | 45.9/100 | £169 | £41,224 | £7,301 |
| 41 | Hertsmere | 45.5/100 | £213 | £36,000 | £9,202 |
| 42 | St Albans | 44.5/100 | £229 | £33,468 | £9,893 |
| 43 | Welwyn Hatfield | 43.3/100 | £202 | £39,794 | £8,726 |
| 44 | Cambridge | 42.4/100 | £208 | £40,266 | £8,986 |
| 45 | Three Rivers | 34.9/100 | £270 | £43,202 | £11,664 |
Frequently asked questions
- What is the cheapest area for hair & beauty salon premises in East?
- The lowest VOA rateable value for this property type in East is £70/m²/yr in Great Yarmouth. On the combined Gera Business Location Score, which also weighs wages and demand, Great Yarmouth ranks #1.
- How much are business rates for hair & beauty salon in Great Yarmouth?
- For a 100 m² unit in Great Yarmouth, business rates are roughly £3,024/yr at the 2026-27 small-business multiplier (43.2p), on top of about £7,000/yr rent — before Small Business Rate Relief.
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Contains public sector information published by Valuation Office Agency and Office for National Statistics and licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: VOA Business Floorspace + ONS Business Counts + ONS ASHE (work geography) + ONS population estimates (2025 (VOA 31 March 2025; ASHE 2025 provisional; Business Counts 2025; population mid-2024), published December 2025).