Guernsey chart library

Total recorded offences in Guernsey, 2008 to 2025, spanning two changes in how crime is counted.

England and Wales Crime Survey estimate of violent incidents, 1995 to 2025, shown for comparison against Guernsey's recorded-crime series.

Referrals, assessments and treatment entries at the Community Drug & Alcohol Team (CDAT), 2023, from a Rule 14 written-question answer.

Primary substance issue recorded at Community Drug & Alcohol Team assessment, 2023: alcohol and opiates dominate.

Days worked in the Bailiwick versus outside it (UK meetings/training or remote working) for Guernsey Police's two UK-origin senior leaders, since the current Chief Officer took post in November 2024.

Cost to the States of Guernsey of Guernsey Police's Chief Officer and Deputy Chief Officer travelling to the UK for business purposes, by year.

Guernsey GDP per head, 1965 to 2023, deflated on a consistent UK RPI basis so figures either side of the 2017 methodology change can be read against each other.

Guernsey's nominal and real (RPI-deflated) GDP, 1965 to 2023, across three incompatible statistical vintages.

Guernsey's population projections to 2092 under the States' lower, central and upper (planning) scenarios, from the April 2023 Population Projection Bulletin.

Guernsey's population by broad age band, as at Q4 2023, the latest published snapshot.

Average Attainment 8 score, 2019 to 2026, for the Bailiwick as a whole, for its States-maintained schools alone, and for England - covering the years either side of the end of selection at 11.

Attainment 8 for every mainstream States secondary in Guernsey in 2024, the first fully non-selective cohort, against 2023, the last selectively-admitted one. The former Grammar School fell 27.8 points; every other school rose.

The distance in Attainment 8 points between the highest and lowest-scoring mainstream States secondary school in Guernsey, 2022 to 2025. It collapses from about 33 points to about 7 the year selection ends.

Percentage of pupils in Guernsey States-maintained schools achieving grade 4 or above in both English and Maths, 2019 to 2024. The only measure spanning both the pandemic and the end of selection on one basis. Discontinued after 2024.

Share of all GCSE grades awarded at 9-7 in 2026 at Guernsey's grant-aided colleges, against the Bailiwick and States-maintained averages. The colleges are about 30% of Year 11 and the States has never published their results.

Cumulative share of all 2026 Bailiwick GCSE and Level 2 grades at each level and above, for the Bailiwick as a whole and for its States-maintained schools, against England's grade 4+ figure.

Percentage of Guernsey pupils achieving 5+ GCSEs (grade 9-4/A*-C) including English and Maths, 2008 to 2022. Discontinued from 2023.

Jersey's standard (grade 4+) and strong (grade 5+) GCSE pass rates in English and Maths, 2018/19 to 2024/25.

Percentage of England pupils achieving 5+ GCSEs (or reformed grade 4+) including English and Maths, 2005 to 2023.

Guernsey's 2026 Attainment 8 score against the England average and three affluent, fully non-selective England local authorities, 2023/24.

Equivalised median household income in 2022 for children in Years 7 to 11, by the school they attend. Guernsey's three grant-aided colleges take about 30% of the secondary cohort; the gap between the college with the lowest household incomes and the States school with the highest is more than £30,000. Published once by the States, inside a funding paper.

General grant-aid paid by the States of Guernsey to Blanchelande College, Elizabeth College and The Ladies' College, against what the same grant would have been on RPIX alone. It rose 246% over six years on an escalator set by amendment in 2017, across the same period in which the States-funded eleven-plus route into those colleges was closed.

Successive headline capital figures for the reorganisation of Guernsey's secondary and post-16 estate after the States voted to end selection at 11. Each replaced the one before it against a changed scope: the £157.3m approved in 2019 was paused by requete in March 2020 and never built. The figures are a sequence, not a ledger, and must not be added.

Pupils at Guernsey's three grant-aided colleges by who paid the fees, from 2019/20 to 2024/25. The States funded 52 Special Place Holders a year, selected on the 11-plus and blind to household income; that scheme closed to new entrants in September 2019. The total roll barely moved. Fee-paying places rose from 864 to 1,217.

Quarterly standing charge rose from £68.25 to £86.75 in 2025 - equivalent to £347 a year, against Ofgem's GB price cap of £188, which does not apply to the Channel Islands.

The STSB-approved revenue-cap increase for Guernsey Electricity each July, 2022 to 2026 - five consecutive above-inflation rises.

Guernsey Electricity standard domestic standing charge and unit rate, indexed to July 2023 = 100. The fixed charge has climbed far faster than the price of the power itself.

Standard domestic electricity unit rate compared: Guernsey 26.01p, Jersey 22.2p, Great Britain 26.35p. Reference dates differ; standing charges are not included.

Recorded winter peak demand has been broadly flat since 2022, against an investment-case projection of 157 MW by 2050 (125 MW with demand management).

Percentage of Guernsey A&E attendances admitted or discharged within four hours, 2018 to 2025, against the 95% standard.

Life expectancy at birth in Guernsey, 3-year rolling average, 2013-15 to 2022-24.

Percentage of Guernsey patients seen within the contractual waiting time for consultant referrals and radiology, 2018 to 2024, against a 95% target.

Aggregate Delayed Transfer of Care days per month in Guernsey hospitals, 2018 to 2024, against a target of fewer than 100 days/month.

NHS England's percentage of A&E attendances seen within four hours, five selected readings, 2013 to 2026, from a 95.4% high to a 49.6% low.

Percentage of Jersey Emergency Department patients admitted or discharged within four hours, January 2024 to April 2026.

Cost of relocating off-island recruits to the Committee for Health & Social Care, 2020 to 2024, from a Rule 14 written-question answer.

Share of Guernsey adults who said cost stopped them using each health service in the last 12 months, 2023. Adult dentistry deters the most at 26.8%, the GP 22.3%. Islander-wide, 41.6% still faced a cost barrier to some service, down from 47.3% in 2018.

Guernsey's owner-occupation rate, 2016 to 2025 - essentially flat since 2016.

Net new homes built in Guernsey per year, 2016 to 2025, against the States' 313-unit annual target.

Guernsey's mix-adjusted average Local Market purchase price, quarterly, Q2 2021 to Q2 2026 - up 20% over the five-year window.

Guernsey's mix-adjusted average Local Market rental price, quarterly, Q2 2021 to Q2 2026 - up 34% over the five-year window.

Net additions to Guernsey's housing stock each year, 2016-2025, against the States' own Strategic Housing Indicator of about 313 more homes a year. Building has run below that benchmark every year.

Guernsey's total housing stock and its split between the Local Market and the effectively fixed Open Market, 2016-2025. Almost all the growth is on the Local Market.

Guernsey's 27,799 homes by tenure at the end of 2025: owner-occupied, privately rented, affordable social rented, affordable intermediate (partial ownership) and other. Affordable homes are about a tenth of the total.

Net additions to Guernsey's stock each year split into affordable and private-and-other. Affordable additions have fallen to almost nothing since 2023, with no net increase at all in 2025.

Homes in Guernsey with planning permission, full or outline, that are not yet complete, plus homes under construction, at the end of each year 2008-2025. The pipeline stood at 1,193 at the end of 2025, its highest since 2016.

Net homes granted full planning permission in Guernsey each year, 2013-2025, excluding outline permissions. 2025 was the highest year since 2016, when the Island Development Plan released its allocated sites.

Net homes granted planning permission each year against net additions to Guernsey's housing stock, 2017-2025. Permissions reached 356 in 2025; the stock grew by 62.

Outcome of 718 Freedom of Information requests to the States of Guernsey, 25 March 2014 to 20 August 2026: 367 granted in full, 223 granted in part, 84 refused in full, 44 information not held.

Freedom of Information requests to the States of Guernsey by subject, 25 March 2014 to 20 August 2026 - health / social care the single largest topic.

Freedom of Information requests logged with the States of Guernsey each year, 2014 to 2026 - from 15 in the log's first (partial) year to 152 at its peak.

Median and mean working days from submission to response for Freedom of Information requests to the States of Guernsey, by year of submission, 2014 to 2026, against the Code of Practice's 20-working-day target.

Percentage of Freedom of Information requests to the States of Guernsey answered within the Code of Practice's 20-working-day target, by year of submission, 2014 to 2026.

Median working days to answer a Freedom of Information request by committee, requests submitted 2021-01-01 onward - the Committee for Home Affairs is the slowest, at 39.5 working days.

The share of Freedom of Information requests to the States of Guernsey granted in full, granted in part, refused in full or not held, for each year from 2014 to 2026. Each bar is one year normalised to 100%, so the full-grant share can be compared across years with very different numbers of requests.

Percentage of the Guernsey population living below 60% of median income after housing costs, 2014 to 2022.

Percentage of the Guernsey population without secure housing, 2016 to 2023.

Weekly listeners to Island FM and BBC Radio Guernsey, RAJAR, 12 months to March 2025. Island FM reaches 31,000 adults a week (53%) against 14,000 (25%) for BBC Radio Guernsey.

Ahrefs' estimate of Guernsey Press's monthly organic search visits, Sep 2022 to Aug 2026. The estimate peaked at 17,819 visits in Mar 2025 and fell 84% to 2,775 in Aug 2026.

Ahrefs' estimate of Bailiwick Express's monthly organic search visits, Sep 2022 to Aug 2026. The estimate peaked at 14,487 visits in Apr 2025 and fell 70% to 4,279 in Aug 2026. The Jersey and Guernsey editions share one domain with no clean way to split them, so this is combined traffic.

Ahrefs' estimate of Channel Eye's monthly organic search visits, Sep 2022 to Aug 2026. The estimate peaked at 3,643 visits in Jul 2025 and fell 77% to 842 in Aug 2026. Channel Eye covers the Channel Islands and Isle of Man together, not Guernsey alone, and states no readership figure of its own, so this estimate is the only figure the page has for it.

States of Guernsey General Revenue income, current expenditure and current plus capital expenditure, 2009 to 2025, restated in constant 2025 prices using Guernsey RPI.

Annualised three-year return, 2023 to 2025, for the States of Guernsey's General Investment Portfolio and Public Servants' Pension Scheme, each against its policy (market) benchmark - both trailed by about three percentage points a year.

States of Guernsey net revenue expenditure as a percentage of GDP, 2013 to 2023, against the Fiscal Policy Framework's 24%-of-GDP ceiling.

States of Guernsey payroll, 2015 to 2025, against three RPI-only counterfactuals, projected to 2035 at recent growth rates.

States of Guernsey core-government staff by pay group, average FTE, 2016 vs 2025: up 880 posts, mostly medical staff.

Five workforces indexed to 100 in 2015: States of Guernsey core government grew 18.6% by 2025, UK general government 16.5%, the UK Civil Service 31.9%, the UK private sector 8.8%, and everyone in work in Guernsey 7.1%.

Staff growth by function, 2016 to 2025: health 57.7% in Guernsey against 33% in the UK, administration 12% in Guernsey against 34.6% in the UK, education 16.2% in Guernsey against 1.3% in the UK, uniformed 19.2% in Guernsey against 15.2% in the UK.

Total sick days taken across the States of Guernsey public service, 2023 to 2025, from a Rule 14 written-question answer.

The States of Guernsey's MyGov digital-transformation programme consumed just over £21m of public money against an £18m budget, for £1.3m of benefits realised, per the Chief Executive's April 2026 review.

Non-work-related and work-related stress as a share of all sickness absence, and of long-term sickness absence specifically, States of Guernsey public service.

Headline pay claims put to the States of Guernsey against the 5% the 2025 round settled on: the RCN's 10% campaign and the NASUWT's 8.3% claim.

How many years of its own spending each fund's reserve would cover: the Guernsey Insurance Fund, which pays the States pension and contributory benefits, and the Long-term Care Insurance Fund, which pays towards care-home fees. The pension fund's buffer has thinned since 2021 while the care fund's has grown, yet the last actuarial review projected both funds exhausted, in 2039 and 2053.

Income and spending of the Guernsey Insurance Fund, which pays the States pension and the contributory benefits, from 2016 to 2026 and before investment returns. Spending is above income in every year shown. Over 2016 to 2025 the operating deficit added up to £262.2m, paid for from investment returns and the reserve.

Income and spending of the Long-term Care Insurance Fund, which pays towards care-home fees, from 2016 to 2026 and before investment returns. Income is above spending in every year shown. Over 2016 to 2025 income grew 111.9% and spending 59.4%.

The amount by which the Guernsey Insurance Fund's spending exceeded its income, before investment returns, from 2021 to the 2027 Budget. The deficit was £29.1m in 2021 and is budgeted at £22.9m for 2027.

Year-end net assets of the Guernsey Insurance Fund as a multiple of that year's spending: 6 years in 2010, 4.4 in 2021 and 3.4 in the 2026 budget. The chart shows no figures for 2011 to 2020.

Spending on the States pension from the Guernsey Insurance Fund, from £138.4m in 2021 to a budgeted £184.5m in 2026. The pension is 86.8% of the fund's benefit spending in 2026.

Percentage growth between 2021 and the 2026 budget in each benefit the Guernsey Insurance Fund pays. Unemployment benefit shows the largest rise, 70%, but from a small base of £1.0m to £1.7m.

Income and spending of the Long-term Care Insurance Fund from 2021 to 2026, before investment returns. Income is above spending in every year, but the surplus fell from £15.1m in 2024 to £9.5m in the 2026 budget as spending caught up.

What a resident pays and what the Long-term Care Insurance Fund pays towards a residential care-home bed each week, January 2025 to January 2030, in 2025 terms. The co-payment rises from £342 to £514, and the fund's share falls by the same amount from July 2025.

Active income support claims by claimant type at 16 August 2025: 3,204 in all, up 23 on a year earlier. Income support is the means-tested top-up for households below a requirement rate, and many claimants are in work.

The combined employer and employee Class 1 social security contribution rate in Guernsey, from 13.2% in 2021 to 14.6% in 2026. A dashed line continues the ten-year plan's annual steps to 15.6% in 2031.

How an employee's annual social security contribution changes under the approved tax reform package against the 2026 rules, by annual earnings, on 2026 limits. Employees earning below about £88,500 pay less; those earning more pay more, up to £1,966 more at the upper earnings limit.

A Bridgehead model of the Guernsey Insurance Fund's operating deficit before investment returns, 2027 to 2045, under three contribution decisions. With rates held it reaches £70.5m in 2040; if the ten-year plan completes it reaches £37.8m.

A Bridgehead model of the Guernsey Insurance Fund's net assets at year end, 2027 to 2045, under three contribution decisions. With rates held the fund falls to £298.3m by 2045, about 0.6 years of spending.

Road closures logged by year in Guernsey, 2021 to 2026, from the raw Trafficworx activity log.

Annual cost of managing road closures in Guernsey, 2021 to 2025, from the States’ own Freedom of Information disclosure.

Road closures by parish in Guernsey since 2021, from the raw Trafficworx activity log - St Peter Port highest, Torteval lowest.

Guernsey traffic-management activity by type, 2021 to 23 July 2026, from the raw Trafficworx activity log.

Bus journeys in March 2025 ran ahead of pre-COVID March 2019, 140,860 against 136,543, from a Rule 14 written-question answer.

13 telecommunications mast planning applications approved in Guernsey, 2020 to 2025 (to the Freedom of Information response date), derived from a list in a Freedom of Information response.

The share of public Facebook comments about Guernsey politics that an AI model labelled negative and positive, as a 3-month average, from Jan 2022 to Oct 2026. Outside the weeks around the June 2025 election, negative stays between 60% and 86%. Around the election it fell to 45% and positive rose to 33%.