Drawn from the latest ONS and Census figures for East Devon, with what ChatFlow does about each.
5% more residents since 2021
Growth of 5% since 2021 has brought East Devon thousands of new residents. Each one is a customer who has not yet picked a favourite local business.
Every business competes on response time
East Devon has 7,860 business units (ONS, 2026), most of them small. An AI agent answers first so the team can reply to the conversations that need a person.
The largest sector: retail, wholesale and motor trade
1,170 of East Devon's business units are in retail, wholesale and motor trade, 14.9% of all local businesses. Tell shoppers what is in stock, when it will arrive and how returns work, before they give up and buy elsewhere.