The average motorist in the United Kingdom drove up to 10,000 miles per year. In 2018, 35 percent of respondents stated that they drove between one to 5,000 miles annually, which was an increase compared to the year before. Mileage for private travel was highest when compared to other purposes, according to a governmental survey among British car drivers. In 2017, an average of roughly 4,500 miles were driven for private reasons.

Company cars have highest mileage

The above mentioned governmental survey also found that those driving company cars tended to travel more than private car users. This was mainly due to the extra distances travelled for business and commuting.

Most UK residents use a car every day

A 2018 Statista survey found that more than half of the UK residential population used a car every day. Only one percent of respondents reported using a car less often than several times a year, with not one never using such passenger vehicles.

This statistic represents the distance travelled by driving, either as a driver or as a passenger in England in 2018, by age and gender. Male drivers travelled the longest distance by car or van, especially those aged between 40 and 59. The female public present a similar trend, the females who travelled the longest distances were drivers aged between 40 and 59. In general, male drivers presented a trend of longer travelled distances than female drivers. However, female passengers travelled longer distances than male passengers.

This statistic illustrates the average distance travelled per person annually for leisure purposes, such as visiting friends at home and elsewhere, entertainment, sport, holiday or day trip, in England in 2018, by mode of transport. Travel by car or van as a passenger was in first place, with an average of 1,053 miles travelled per person per year for leisure purposes.

This statistic compares the average distance travelled per person annually for all purposes in England in 2018, by mode of transport. Car drivers covered the greatest distance, at 3,244 miles per person per year.

Surface rail is the public transport mode with which people in England cover the largest distances. The average distance covered by rail in a year had been rising in the years leading up to the COVID-19 pandemic, peaking at 625 miles per person in 2019. While rail travel started to recover in 2021, the average distance covered still stood at 453 miles per person in 2022.

Cars and vans were the most popular mode of transport for commuting purposes in England. In 2019, car and van drivers travelled an average of 782 miles per person per year, roughly three times the distance travelled by those using surface rail as a means of commuting. In Great Britain overall, the car was used by more than two thirds of commuters, by far the majority of those travelling to work. In the past three years, the popularity of the car was unchallenged.

Train commutes the longest

The average commuting time for those travelling via rail was an hour, which suggested that those using rail tended to do so when needing to traverse greater distances. By comparison, the average car commute was 26 minutes long in 2017.

Company cars have greatest annual mileage

The greatest commuting mileage of car drivers was covered by those driving company vehicles. In 2018, a company car user drove nearly four times the distance someone using a private car travelled.

By our definition, any journey that travels slower than the speed limit, experiences delay. To put this into context, if you experience 10 seconds of average delay per mile, then to travel one mile on a motorway will take 61 seconds instead of the 51 seconds it would take driving at 70mph.Our average speed information provided is that observed during the specific year on a specific road link.Our journey time reliability metric describes the amount of non-recurrent, or unexpected, delay on a link. Unexpected delay is the difference between the observed travel time and the typical travel time on this section of road. For example, of the 10 seconds of average delay per mile in the previous example, 5 seconds of this could be unexpected delay and therefore contributes to our reliability performance indicator. The other 5 seconds would be delay that is typically experienced due to regular traffic conditions or the physical features of the road. Our Total Delay metric adds up all the delay experienced on a road link during that year, across all vehicles, so shows the links which experience the most cumulative delay. This could show a highly-trafficked road as experiencing more total delay than a lower trafficked road, even if the average delay per vehicle might be higher on the road with less vehicles. Because some links are longer than others, this metric is normalised based on the size of the link and the number of days of data.

A dataset of vehicle MPG ratings and fuel cost calculations based on manufacturer, model, and fuel type.

This statistic compares the average distance travelled per person annually for business purposes in England in 2018, by mode of transport. Surface rail travel was in second place, with an average of 120 miles travelled per person per year for business purposes.

Dataset population: Workplace population

Daytime/workday population

England and Wales (Workday Population)

Workday population is where the usually resident population is re-distributed to their places of work, while those not in work are recorded at their usual residence.

The workday population of an area is defined as all usual residents aged 16 and above who are in employment and whose workplace is in the area, and all other usual residents of any age who are not in employment but are resident in the area. People who work mainly at or from home or do not have a fixed place of work are included in their area of their usual residence. The following population groups are excluded from the workday population of an area:

• Those living in England and Wales but working in Scotland, Northern Ireland, outside the UK or on offshore installations,
• Those with a place of work in England and Wales but who are not usually resident in England and Wales, and
• Short-term residents

England and Wales (Workplace Population)

Workplace population is where the usually resident population is re-distributed to their main place of work, but those not working are excluded.

Distance travelled to place of work

The distance in kilometres between a person's residential postcode and their workplace postcode, measured in a straight line.

Derived distances that result in a distance travelled that exceeds 1200km are treated as invalid and a value is imputed. A distance travelled of 0.1km indicates that the workplace postcode is the same as the residential postcode.

Traffic count figures from the Department for Transport which give the total volume of traffic on stretches of road in Sheffield for the whole year, and are calculated by multiplying the Annual average daily flow (AADF) by the corresponding length of road and by the number of days in the years.

Traffic figures are presented as: Units = thousand vehicle miles

More metadata details: http://data.dft.gov.uk/gb-traffic-matrix/traffic-majorroads-miles-metadata.pdf

This statistic compares mileage for different travel purposes according to the car ownership type in Great Britain in 2017. People driving company cars travelled a lot more than those with private cars, due to the extra distances travelled for business and for commuting.

In England, women walked more than men for almost all age groups, apart from 17-20 year-olds. In 2019, women aged 30-39 years were the most active out of all age groups, walking 253 miles per year. By comparison, men of the same age group walked 32 miles less per year. Despite this, there was only a small difference between the distance walked between age groups. The greatest prevalence of people who walked was recorded in the South West region.

Walking duration

Those who took daily walks tended to do so for 30 to 89 minutes. However, 19.2 percent of the English population reported they spent over 120 minutes a day walking for leisure or recreational purposes.

The sporty population

28 million adults in England were physically active for more than 150 minutes a week. Out of those participating in any sport, the majority were engaged for longer periods of time.