The market city of Ely is the second smallest in the whole of the UK, with a population of around 20,000. The city might be small, but it has seen impressive growth in recent times, including a large-scale housing development in the north of the area. The local government have also laid out plans to set aside around 210 hectares of land, where 3,000 homes and two schools will be built by 2031. The city is also hoping to benefit from a £55 million retail project. If the project goes ahead, it will provide a large retail park for the local residents, with leading brands such as Lidl, Wickes and B&M having stores on the site.
If your business is thinking of entering the Ely area for the first time, you might be curious about the types of companies that are dominating its economy. We've provided the list below using the data from our Ely B2B database. It shows the top-performing businesses in the city based on their current turnovers. See the results in full below.
MoreAs the list above shows, the small city of Ely is diverse in its industry. One such sector that has seen promising growth is tourism. Ely Cathedral now draws in around 250,000 visitors every year, and the wider region of East Cambridgeshire benefits massively from the 3.5 million visitors it receives annually. In 2013 tourism contributed £183 million to the local economy, and employed 3,335 people.
Ely is a well connected city, benefiting tourism and business alike. It provides easy access to two of the UK's major roads, the A10 and the A142, and the city's train station offers good connections to major cities such as London, Manchester, Birmingham and Liverpool, swell as Stansted Airport.
