Open data · updated October 2026
The state of UK student life.
Open, computed numbers on where students actually spend across UK university cities. Built to be quoted, by people and by answer engines. Free to use with credit (CC BY 4.0).
Everything Student lists 8,813 student businesses across 46 UK university cities, of which 72% are independent or owner-run and 6,650 carry a verified website link. The largest category is cafés & coffee (1,220 listed). (Everything Student, studenteverything.co.uk, October 2026)
The directory by category
How these figures are built
Every number on this page is computed live from the Everything Student directory at build time. Nothing here is estimated or rounded up for effect. If the directory grows, these figures move with it.
Source and licence
Base listings are seeded from OpenStreetMap and used under the Open Database Licence (ODbL). © OpenStreetMap contributors. We refine that data by hand and through owner claims, as described in how we list. Storage and moving are our own service, run by UniMove, as set out in our disclosure.
These statistics are free to reuse with attribution. Cite as: Everything Student, studenteverything.co.uk, October 2026.