Annual bus statistics: year ending March 2021
Annual statistics on local buses in Great Britain for the year ending March 2021.
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Local bus statistics in Great Britain, including passengers, mileage and vehicle fleet, for the year ending March 2021.
The summary relates only to England to match the coverage of the Department for Transport bus policy, but the tables also cover Scotland and Wales.
In the year ending March 2021, the number of bus passenger journeys:
- decreased by 61% in England
- decreased by 59% in London
- decreased by 64% in England outside of London
In the year ending March 2021, bus service mileage:
- decreased by 16% in England
- decreased by 2% in London
- decreased by 21% in England outside of London
At March 2021, 99% of buses in England had the accessibility certificate which were required for all buses operating local services by 2017 at the latest.
This publication covers the year to 31 March 2021, which includes periods during which movement restrictions were in place due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The collection of passenger data is not granular enough to distinguish numbers of passenger journeys at different points during this period. An indication of changes in bus passenger volume during this period can be found in the separate weekly release covering transport use during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
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