Most discourse on home-based enterprises (HBEs) is usually skewed towards an assumption that those who run them are mainly the urban poor and are, thus actively repressed and treated with disdain by government agencies and the media. This perception could be dangerous to achieving the set economic and environmental design goals, considering the pervasiveness and persistent growth of this form of informal economy. The objective of this paper was to examine the prevalence of home-based enterprises across all strata of neighbourhoods with a view to determining whether home-based production activities are run by the poor class alone. Data were sourced from observational study and structured questionnaire administered on 224 households in six neighbourhoods in Ado Ekiti, Nigeria. Frequencies and percentages were used to analyse the data. Chi-squared test was also conducted on the results to explore the differences in the prevalence of home-based enterprises across all the social stratum. Findings revealed that home-based enterprises are common among all the social classes (χ 2 (2) = 4.681, p = 0.10). Recommendations were made in light of the need for government and the design professionals to engage constructively with this form of household initiatives.