Stockport, in figures, and the sites we built there.

On the ONS count, Stockport borough has 330 workplaces in hairdressing and beauty, and that trade has taken a large share of our work here: barbers account for 13 of our 32 Stockport previews, hair and beauty salons for 5.

For a salon, the question is how a customer books. The 83 homepages counted above came from searching Stockport for salons, barbers and other small businesses, and every one links to Instagram. 29 carried a visible booking system; on the remaining 54 we saw nothing of the kind. Barbers in the borough have a page of their own with their own figures.

Our weekday calls went to 19 Stockport businesses, on the dates shown above. If your phone goes unanswered on a busy Saturday, a receptionist trial runs for 7 days on just the calls you miss, then hands you a list of every one it caught.

Beyond salons, the borough holds 120 dental practices and 95 solicitors on the ONS count. Both get the same build and the same prices as the salons.

Stockport borough reaches from Reddish and the Heatons in the north-west to Marple and Romiley in the east, then south through Hazel Grove, Bramhall, Cheadle and Cheadle Hulme. The ONS Postcode Directory puts its addresses in M19, M22, SK1, SK2, SK3, SK4, SK5, SK6, SK7, SK8, SK12, SK14, SK22. M19 and M22 are shared with Manchester, so a business there counts here only when its own postcode is on the Stockport side.