Tattoo & body art: what the numbers show

73 tattoo & body art businesses mapped across the area, of which 62 are unincorporated sole traders who appear in no company register.

73 mapped
62 sole traders
62 with a website
46 listed publicly
Drawing of a fictional landscape with a figure in manga/anime style. The title of this image is: On the Edge . Programs used: GIMP , Inkscape , Blender .
Tattoo & body art Stock photograph, not this business's own work. „ Niabot , because commons should stay free“ · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikimedia Commons

How big they are

From the accounts filed at Companies House by the tattoo & body art companies in this area. Sole traders publish nothing, so they are counted above but contribute nothing here — which is itself the point: the majority of this craft is invisible to any measure built on filings.

Not enough total assets figures to publish a comparison without risking identifying individual businesses.

Not enough net assets figures to publish a comparison without risking identifying individual businesses.

Not enough employees figures to publish a comparison without risking identifying individual businesses.

Balance-sheet totals, because turnover is not in small-company filings. Employee counts are averages of people under contract and exclude freelancers, so for a craft that runs on freelance work they understate the real number of people making a living from it.

Which council areas

Attributed by the council area each business actually sits in, not by the town on its postal address. Areas with fewer than 5 businesses are not listed separately.

Tattoo & body art businesses by council areaSouthampton 11; Wiltshire 6Southampton11Wiltshire6
Council areaTattoo & body art businesses
Southampton11
Wiltshire6

Find them

Browse every tattoo & body art business in the directory, or just the sole traders.

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