Local Authorities

Road traffic by local authority in 2025

 

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Local authority	Million vehicle miles
Aberdeen City	975
Aberdeenshire	2,059
Angus	715
Argyll & Bute	614
Barking and Dagenham	412
Barnet	1,080
Barnsley	1,319
Bath and North East Somerset	758
Bedford	895
Bedfordshire (abolished, latest year 2008)	Former local authority
Bexley	632
Birmingham	3,738
Blackburn with Darwen	452
Blackpool	336
Blaenau Gwent	273
Bolton	1,327
Bournemouth (abolished, latest year 2018)	Former local authority
Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole	1,285
Bracknell Forest	449
Bradford	1,519
Brent	623
Bridgend	906
Brighton and Hove	770
Bristol, City of	1,423
Bromley	901
Buckinghamshire	4,142
Bury	1,024
Caerphilly	746
Calderdale	981
Cambridgeshire	5,289
Camden	275
Cardiff	2,037
Carmarthenshire	1,305
Central Bedfordshire	2,208
Ceredigion	474
Cheshire (abolished, latest year 2008)	Former local authority
City of Edinburgh	1,937
City of London	71
Clackmannanshire	217
Comhairle nan Eilean Siar	142
Conwy	828
Cornwall excluding Isles of Scilly	3,665
Coventry	1,244
Croydon	851
Cumberland	1,590
Cumbria (abolished, latest year 2022)	Former local authority
Darlington	546
Denbighshire	571
Derby	1,225
Derbyshire	5,602
Devon	6,170
Doncaster	2,197
Dorset	2,524
Dorset (abolished, latest year 2018)	Former local authority
Dudley	1,078
Dumfries & Galloway	1,414
Dundee City	539
Durham	2,888
Ealing	807
East Ayrshire	755
East Cheshire	3,107
East Dunbartonshire	358
East Lothian	670
East Renfrewshire	518
East Riding of Yorkshire	2,413
East Sussex	2,710
Enfield	1,129
Essex	9,975
Falkirk	1,026
Fife	1,937
Flintshire	1,118
Gateshead	1,174
Glasgow City	2,257
Gloucestershire	4,413
Greenwich	749
Gwynedd	899
Hackney	273
Halton	665
Hammersmith and Fulham	301
Hampshire	9,780
Haringey	326
Harrow	408
Hartlepool	430
Havering	1,146
Herefordshire, County of	1,262
Hertfordshire	7,472
Highland	1,998
Hillingdon	1,522
Hounslow	1,040
Inverclyde	326
Isle of Anglesey	427
Isle of Wight	403
Isles of Scilly	1
Islington	225
Kensington and Chelsea	306
Kent	9,788
Kingston upon Hull, City of	768
Kingston upon Thames	616
Kirklees	1,725
Knowsley	1,056
Lambeth	448
Lancashire	7,641
Leeds	4,230
Leicester	1,036
Leicestershire	5,384
Lewisham	449
Lincolnshire	4,474
Liverpool	1,374
Luton	517
Manchester	1,755
Medway	907
Merthyr Tydfil	279
Merton	407
Middlesbrough	930
Midlothian	448
Milton Keynes	1,592
Monmouthshire	977
Moray	522
Neath Port Talbot	893
Newcastle upon Tyne	1,158
Newham	589
Newport	1,273
Norfolk	5,646
North Ayrshire	518
North East Lincolnshire	620
North Lanarkshire	2,171
North Lincolnshire	1,165
North Northamptonshire	2,340
North Somerset	1,647
North Tyneside	877
North Yorkshire	5,532
Northamptonshire (abolished, latest year 2020)	Former local authority
Northumberland	2,163
Nottingham	1,073
Nottinghamshire	4,973
Oldham	728
Orkney Islands	99
Oxfordshire	4,803
Pembrokeshire	737
Perth & Kinross	1,659
Peterborough	1,286
Plymouth	975
Poole (abolished, latest year 2018)	Former local authority
Portsmouth	749
Powys	1,033
Reading	357
Redbridge	718
Redcar and Cleveland	622
Renfrewshire	1,034
Rhondda, Cynon, Taff	1,438
Richmond upon Thames	514
Rochdale	1,139
Rotherham	1,644
Rutland	445
Salford	1,507
Sandwell	1,364
Scottish Borders	805
Sefton	751
Sheffield	1,820
Shetland Islands	148
Shropshire	2,208
Slough	489
Solihull	1,433
Somerset	4,697
South Ayrshire	670
South Gloucestershire	2,689
South Lanarkshire	1,799
South Tyneside	516
Southampton	623
Southend-on-Sea	391
Southwark	434
St. Helens	871
Staffordshire	6,283
Stirling	821
Stockport	1,272
Stockton-on-Tees	981
Stoke-on-Trent	873
Suffolk	4,286
Sunderland	1,127
Surrey	8,508
Sutton	463
Swansea	1,151
Swindon	1,270
Tameside	776
Telford and Wrekin	963
The Vale of Glamorgan	692
Thurrock	1,177
Torbay	425
Torfaen	444
Tower Hamlets	511
Trafford	1,000
Wakefield	1,945
Walsall	1,035
Waltham Forest	509
Wandsworth	458
Warrington	1,823
Warwickshire	6,358
West Berkshire	1,880
West Cheshire	2,620
West Dunbartonshire	432
West Lothian	1,220
West Northamptonshire	3,899
West Sussex	4,427
Westminster	456
Westmorland and Furness	2,438
Wigan	1,289
Wiltshire	3,850
Windsor and Maidenhead	1,123
Wirral	1,118
Wokingham	1,014
Wolverhampton	724
Worcestershire	4,665
Wrexham	685
York	846

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Road traffic by local authority from 1993 to 2025

Million vehicle miles travelled each year in Great Britain, split by local authority

Road traffic by local authority table

Million vehicle miles travelled each year in Great Britain, split by local authority

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