📊 Bus use by local authority

Official Department for Transport statistics: local bus passenger journeys in every English local authority, for the financial year ending March 2025. Click an authority for its trend since 2010.

By region

RegionJourneys (2025)vs 2024
London 1,822m -1%
North West 339m +5%
South East 322m +5%
West Midlands 295m +5%
Yorkshire and the Humber 236m 0%
South West 192m +5%
East Midlands 164m +2%
East of England 162m +4%
North East 139m +7%

By local authority

Local authorityJourneys (2025)vs 2024
Kent 44.9m -3%
Brighton and Hove 43.8m +6%
Nottingham 42.9m +4%
Bristol, City of 39.8m +7%
Essex 39.5m +3%
Oxfordshire 39.5m +5%
Lancashire 36.7m -7%
Norfolk 27.7m +8%
Surrey 26.9m +8%
Hampshire 26.6m +9%
Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole 24.8m +6%
Leicester 24.7m -1%
Nottinghamshire 24.4m +2%
Hertfordshire 24.2m +2%
West Sussex 24.2m +10%
Southampton 21.7m +6%
Reading 20.0m +3%
Cambridgeshire 19.7m +6%
Devon 19.1m +12%
Derbyshire 18.8m +3%
Kingston upon Hull, City of 18.3m +6%
Durham 17.7m +3%
East Sussex 17.5m +7%
Gloucestershire 15.9m +7%
Plymouth 15.9m +4%
York 14.7m +1%
Staffordshire 13.6m -1%
Lincolnshire 13.2m -1%
Cornwall 13.2m 0%
Bath and North East Somerset 13.1m +2%
Derby 13.0m +1%
Suffolk 12.4m +4%
Cumbria 12.1m +4%
West Northamptonshire 12.0m 0%
Portsmouth 11.9m +3%
North Yorkshire 11.1m -3%
Luton 10.9m +6%
Leicestershire 10.5m 0%
Swindon 10.3m +3%
Warwickshire 10.1m 0%
South Gloucestershire 9.4m +3%
Wiltshire 8.8m +7%
Buckinghamshire excluding Milton Keynes 8.7m +6%
Stoke-on-Trent 8.4m +6%
Worcestershire 8.2m +8%
Isle of Wight 8.0m +7%
Northumberland 7.8m +4%
Peterborough 7.4m 0%
Medway 7.4m +1%
Milton Keynes 7.4m 0%
Cheshire West and Chester 7.1m -1%
Southend-on-Sea 6.9m +5%
Blackpool 6.7m -8%
Middlesbrough 6.5m -2%
Stockton-on-Tees 6.3m +2%
Dorset excluding Poole & Bournemouth 6.1m +2%
Torbay 5.6m 0%
Slough 5.5m +10%
North East Lincolnshire 5.4m 0%
Somerset 5.4m 0%
East Riding of Yorkshire 5.3m +4%
Thurrock 5.3m 0%
Warrington 5.2m +8%
North Somerset 5.0m +9%
North Northamptonshire 4.2m +8%
Darlington 4.1m 0%
Blackburn with Darwen 4.1m 0%
Halton 4.1m +2%
Bedford 4.1m 0%
Central Bedfordshire 3.9m +3%
Hartlepool 3.5m -3%
Telford and Wrekin 3.4m 0%
Shropshire 3.3m +6%
Redcar and Cleveland 2.9m 0%
Cheshire East 2.9m +4%
Wokingham 2.6m +4%
West Berkshire 2.3m +5%
North Lincolnshire 2.2m +10%
Herefordshire, County of 1.8m +20%
Bracknell Forest 1.8m +6%
Windsor and Maidenhead 1.5m +15%
Rutland 0.2m +100%

Source: DfT bus statistics (table BUS01), Open Government Licence v3.0. Figures are millions of passenger journeys per financial year. London is reported as its boroughs' combined total by TfL.