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Retail Locations Series: UK Top 10 Cities 2024-2029

Publisher GlobalData
Published Aug 28, 2025
Length 113 Pages
SKU # GBDT20406417

Description

Retail Locations Series: UK Top 10 Cities 2024-2029

Summary

The UK Top 10 Cities 2024-2029 report offers comprehensive insight and analysis of UK Top 10 Cities (including forecasts up to 2029), the key retailers, and consumer attitudes. It provides in-depth analysis of the following: the top 10 cities market size and forecasts, sector performance and forecasts, retailer usage across different cities, and consumer data. The report focuses on seven key sectors: clothing & footwear, electricals, furniture & floorcoverings, health & beauty, homewares, DIY & gardening and other. Consumer data is based on our 2025 UK How Britain Shops survey, using a panel of 9,000 nationally representative consumers.

The UK top 10 cities market is forecast to grow at a CAGR of 2.0% between 2024 and 2029, faster than the previous five years between 2019 and 2024. This performance will be driven by resilient sector growth in London, Manchester and Edinburgh. The market faces challenges from weak consumer spending power in smaller cities and the threat of growing online shopping behaviour eroding crucial offline clothing & footwear spend.

Scope
  • The top 10 cities market will achieve robust growth out to 2029, outperforming the total offline retail market
  • The share of clothing & footwear spending in the UK top 10 cities market will fall faster than any other sector between 2024 and 2029
  • London and Manchester will outpace the top 10 UK cities market in CAGR between 2024 and 2029. Bolstered by international retailer expansion, wealthy residents and strong fashion heritages
Reasons to Buy
  • Identify the key cities for expansion and consumer spending power in the UK market, through our market forecasts and consumer data
  • Understand the how leisure and tourism, hybrid working and expansion of international retailers will affect the top 10 cities
  • Use our in-depth analysis of the challenges faced by the top 10 cities and how those consumers visiting, living and working in these cities shop
  • View our by city sector forecasts to understand which retailers are likely to prosper by location in the next five years

Table of Contents

113 Pages
    • UK Top 10 Cities 2025 Winners & Losers
    • Key Trend: International retailers focus on store expansion in cities
    • Key Trend: Hybrid working reduces city centre footfall during weekdays
    • Key Trend: Leisure and tourism increase consumer dwell time
    • Key Developments across the Top 10 Cities
    • Population by City
    • Employment by City
    • Mean Household Expenditure, by City
    • Real GDP Per Capita
    • UK Top 10 Cities, five-year growth 2019 - 2029
    • UK Top 10 Cities Market Size, 2019-2029
    • UK Top 10 Cities Channel Growth, 2019-2029
    • UK Top 10 Cities Channel Size as a proportion of Total Retail, 2019, 2024 & 2029
    • UK Top 10 Cities Channel Size as a proportion of Offline Retail, 2019, 2024 & 2029
    • Key Cities Trends
    • UK Top 10 Cities, Share of Total Retail Market by City %, 2019-2029
    • UK Top 10 Cities, Share of Total Offline Retail Market by City %, 2019-2029
    • UK Top 10 Cities, Share of Top 10 Cities Market %, 2019-2029
    • UK Top 10 Cities Market Size: Value and Forecast, 2024 & 2029
    • UK Top 10 Cities Market: Summary
    • UK Top 10 Cities Market Size, 2019, 2024 & 2029 & CAGR, 2024-2029
    • UK Top 10 Cities Market: Growth, 2024-2029
    • Key Sector Trends
    • UK Top 10 Cities Market Sector: Value and Forecast, 2024 & 2029
    • UK Top 10 Cities Market by Sector %, 2019-2029
    • UK Top 10 Cities Share of Overall Offline Sector Sales, 2019, 2024 & 2029
    • UK Top 10 Cities Share of Overall Sector Sales, 2019, 2024 & 2029
    • UK Top 10 Cities Market Split by Food and Non-food, 2019-2029
    • UK Top 10 Cities Market Growth by Food and Non-food, 2019-2029
    • UK Top 10 Cities Food & Grocery Market, 2019-2029
    • UK Food & Grocery Market Growth by City, 2024-2029
    • UK Top 10 Cities Clothing & Footwear Market, 2019-2029
    • UK Clothing & Footwear Market Growth by City, 2024-2029
    • UK Top 10 Cities DIY & Gardening Market, 2019-2029
    • UK DIY & Gardening Market Growth by City, 2024-2029
    • UK Top 10 Cities Electricals Market, 2019-2029
    • UK Electricals Market Growth by City, 2024-2029
    • UK Top 10 Cities Furniture & Floorcoverings Market, 2019-2029
    • UK Furniture & Floorcoverings Market Growth by City, 2024-2029
    • UK Top 10 Cities Health & Beauty Market, 2019-2029
    • UK Health & Beauty Market Growth by City, 2024-2029
    • UK Top 10 Cities Homewares Market, 2019-2029
    • UK Homewares Market Growth by City, 2024-2029
    • UK Top 10 Cities Other Market, 2019-2029
    • UK Other Market Growth by City, 2024-2029
    • London - Market Overview
    • London - Images
    • Birmingham - Market Overview
    • Birmingham - Images
    • Manchester - Market Overview
    • Manchester - Images
    • Leeds - Market Overview
    • Leeds - Images
    • Glasgow - Market Overview
    • Edinburgh - Market Overview
    • Edinburgh - Images
    • Sheffield - Market Overview
    • Sheffield - Images
    • Liverpool - Market Overview
    • Cardiff - Market Overview
    • Cardiff - Images
    • Bristol - Market Overview
    • Bristol - Images
    • Key Consumer Trends
    • UK City Demographic Breakdown, 2025
    • Top 5 Sectors Purchased by City, 2025
    • Top 3 Grocers Visited by City, 2025
    • Top 3 Grocers Purchased from by City, 2025
    • Top 3 Non-Food Retailers Visited by City, 2025
    • Top 3 Non-Food Retailers Purchased from by City, 2025
    • Shopping Method Used by City, 2025
    • Locations Shopped at by City, 2025
    • Methodology

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