Best areas to open tyre & exhaust centre in South East
39 South 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 tyre and exhaust centre in South East?
In South East, the best area to open a tyre and exhaust centre is Wealden, with a Gera Business Location Score of 79.5/100: premises at £64/m²/yr and local median pay £27,639. Reading ranks lowest of 39 South East authorities at 22.6/100. From 2025 UK government open data; re-dated annually.
Gera Business Location Score
Top South East area for tyre & exhaust centre: Wealden.
How this is calculatedSouth East ranked for tyre & exhaust centre
| # | Local authority | GBLS | Rent (£/m²/yr) | Local pay | Rates / 100 m² |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wealden | 79.5/100 | £64 | £27,639 | £2,765 |
| 2 | Test Valley | 73.9/100 | £54 | £33,566 | £2,333 |
| 3 | New Forest | 72.2/100 | £69 | £30,071 | £2,981 |
| 4 | East Hampshire | 69.5/100 | £77 | £30,143 | £3,326 |
| 5 | Isle of Wight | 64.7/100 | £74 | £26,185 | £3,197 |
| 6 | Cherwell | 61.5/100 | £96 | £33,207 | £4,147 |
| 7 | Arun | 61.2/100 | £94 | £27,461 | £4,061 |
| 8 | Buckinghamshire | 60.9/100 | £86 | £33,367 | £3,715 |
| 9 | Tunbridge Wells | 59.6/100 | £92 | £30,296 | £3,974 |
| 10 | Winchester | 59.2/100 | £78 | £34,568 | £3,370 |
| 11 | Maidstone | 57/100 | £96 | £31,986 | £4,147 |
| 12 | Horsham | 57/100 | £110 | £32,334 | £4,752 |
| 13 | Fareham | 56.4/100 | £93 | £32,895 | £4,018 |
| 14 | Swale | 55.8/100 | £100 | £29,831 | £4,320 |
| 15 | Tonbridge and Malling | 54.3/100 | £103 | £31,472 | £4,450 |
| 16 | Portsmouth | 53.8/100 | £78 | £33,015 | £3,370 |
| 17 | Mid Sussex | 52.3/100 | £95 | £31,401 | £4,104 |
| 18 | Canterbury | 50.3/100 | £105 | £29,337 | £4,536 |
| 19 | Worthing | 49.1/100 | £90 | £29,044 | £3,888 |
| 20 | Dover | 48.2/100 | £112 | £31,547 | £4,838 |
| 21 | Waverley | 47.4/100 | £117 | £31,083 | £5,054 |
| 22 | Basingstoke and Deane | 47.1/100 | £92 | £35,492 | £3,974 |
| 23 | Milton Keynes | 46.7/100 | £101 | £36,521 | £4,363 |
| 24 | Dartford | 46.6/100 | £115 | £32,428 | £4,968 |
| 25 | Southampton | 46.4/100 | £93 | £33,878 | £4,018 |
| 26 | Folkestone and Hythe | 46/100 | £108 | £31,907 | £4,666 |
| 27 | Medway | 45.2/100 | £114 | £30,784 | £4,925 |
| 28 | Slough | 43.7/100 | £118 | £38,578 | £5,098 |
| 29 | Spelthorne | 43/100 | £139 | £32,237 | £6,005 |
| 30 | Eastbourne | 40.6/100 | £142 | £26,893 | £6,134 |
| 31 | Rushmoor | 39.6/100 | £132 | £34,238 | £5,702 |
| 32 | Surrey Heath | 36.2/100 | £152 | £36,632 | £6,566 |
| 33 | Crawley | 36.2/100 | £125 | £36,053 | £5,400 |
| 34 | Guildford | 31.5/100 | £144 | £38,027 | £6,221 |
| 35 | Wokingham | 31.4/100 | £140 | £38,552 | £6,048 |
| 36 | Reigate and Banstead | 31.4/100 | £128 | £39,073 | £5,530 |
| 37 | Woking | 29.6/100 | £148 | £35,258 | £6,394 |
| 38 | Oxford | 25/100 | £115 | £38,779 | £4,968 |
| 39 | Reading | 22.6/100 | £140 | £44,956 | £6,048 |
Frequently asked questions
- What is the cheapest area for tyre & exhaust centre premises in South East?
- The lowest VOA rateable value for this property type in South East is £54/m²/yr in Test Valley. On the combined Gera Business Location Score, which also weighs wages and demand, Wealden ranks #1.
- How much are business rates for tyre & exhaust centre in Wealden?
- For a 100 m² unit in Wealden, business rates are roughly £2,765/yr at the 2026-27 small-business multiplier (43.2p), on top of about £6,400/yr rent — before Small Business Rate Relief.
Opening a tyre and exhaust centre in South East?
Set up your UK GDPR and EU AI Act compliance from day one with a fixed-scope GeraCompliance sprint.
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).