On 1 April 2025 responsibility for fire and rescue transferred from the Home Office to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government.
This information covers fires, false alarms and other incidents attended by fire crews, and the statistics include the numbers of incidents, fires, fatalities and casualties as well as information on response times to fires. The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) also collect information on the workforce, fire prevention work, health and safety and firefighter pensions. All data tables on fire statistics are below.
MHCLG has responsibility for fire services in England. The vast majority of data tables produced by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government are for England but some (0101, 0103, 0201, 0501, 1401) tables are for Great Britain split by nation. In the past the Department for Communities and Local Government (who previously had responsibility for fire services in England) produced data tables for Great Britain and at times the UK. Similar information for devolved administrations are available at https://www.firescotland.gov.uk/about/statistics/" class="govuk-link">Scotland: Fire and Rescue Statistics, https://statswales.gov.wales/Catalogue/Community-Safety-and-Social-Inclusion/Community-Safety" class="govuk-link">Wales: Community safety and https://www.nifrs.org/home/about-us/publications/" class="govuk-link">Northern Ireland: Fire and Rescue Statistics.
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Fire statistics guidance
Fire statistics incident level datasets
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/67fe79e3393a986ec5cf8dbe/FIRE0101.xlsx">FIRE0101: Incidents attended by fire and rescue services by nation and population (MS Excel Spreadsheet, 126 KB) Previous FIRE0101 tables
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/67fe79fbed87b81608546745/FIRE0102.xlsx">FIRE0102: Incidents attended by fire and rescue services in England, by incident type and fire and rescue authority (MS Excel Spreadsheet, 1.56 MB) Previous FIRE0102 tables
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/67fe7a20694d57c6b1cf8db0/FIRE0103.xlsx">FIRE0103: Fires attended by fire and rescue services by nation and population (MS Excel Spreadsheet, 156 KB) Previous FIRE0103 tables
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/67fe7a40ed87b81608546746/FIRE0104.xlsx">FIRE0104: Fire false alarms by reason for false alarm, England (MS Excel Spreadsheet, 331 KB) Previous FIRE0104 tables
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/67fe7a5f393a986ec5cf8dc0/FIRE0201.xlsx">FIRE0201: Dwelling fires attended by fire and rescue services by motive, population and nation (MS Excel Spreadsheet, <span class="gem-c-attachm
The data includes all match stats as time series. There are many analysis to apply on this data.
Football is not only the most popular sport to watch and spectate in the United Kingdom (UK) and England, but also the most popular team sport to participate in. Between November 2023 and November 2024, roughly 2.2 million people in England played the sport. Football nation Being home to not only the biggest football league but the biggest and most successful sports league in the world, the Premier League, England has many football fans who support the sport with famous clubs such as Manchester United, Liverpool FC, Arsenal FC or Manchester City. Champions League Some of these top tier clubs compete in the UEFA Champions League with other high division teams, primarily from the other ’Big Five’ football leagues in Europe, Germany, Spain, Italy and France. In 2023/24, Real Madrid came out as the victor, winning their 15th Champions League title that season.
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Explore Cricket matches-England-Statistics through data • Key facts: number of authors, number of books, books, authors, publication dates, book publishers • Real-time news, visualizations and datasets
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Detailed historical and real-time Formula 1 data for Paul England, including performance, lap times, and more.
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An interactive Excel-based data tool for domestic abuse statistics. It allows users to explore data for their police force area in more detail and compare with other areas.
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Health Index scores at national, regional, and upper- and lower-tier local authority level for England, including indicator details to construct the Index.
The police in England and Wales performed 535,307 stop and searches in 2023/24, compared with 547,000 in the previous year. Between 2008/09 and 2017/18 the amount of stop and searches had been decreasing, but have increased in every subsequent year up until 2021/22.
This section holds other statistics published alongside the further education and skills statistics publications. These are not national statistics, but complement the information in the main release.
If you need help finding data please refer to the table finder tool to search for specific breakdowns available for FE statistics.
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For recent data on apprenticeship starts by employer size, sector and region please see the https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/apprenticeships-in-england-by-industry-characteristics" class="govuk-link">Apprenticeships in England by industry characteristics statistics publication.
The statistics on police use of force within this release cover incidents in England and Wales between 1 April 2021 and 31 March 2022. Data were collected from the 43 Home Office funded police forces in England and Wales.
The police use of force statistics, year ending 31 March 2022 are classified as official statistics. This is the fifth annual publication of these statistics and the second year that the experimental statistics label has been removed from the publication.
More information is available in the user guide to ‘Police use of force statistics, England and Wales’.
In 2023/24, approximately 54 percent of people in England advised that they had volunteered at least once in the previous year, with 33 percent volunteering at least once a month. In general, the share of people saying they volunteered has been declining since 2013/14, when approximately 70 percent of the population volunteered in a year.
Statistics on land designated as green belt in England, by local authority.
Spatial data for the local authority green belt boundaries is available from https://www.data.gov.uk/dataset/ccb505e0-67a8-4ace-b294-19a3cbff4861/english-local-authority-green-belt-dataset" class="govuk-link">data.gov.uk. Search for ‘local authority Green Belt dataset’.
Statistical information is also available on land designated as Green Belt and other land designations within the https://app.powerbi.com/view?r=eyJrIjoiMzBhYWRmOGUtYWVmZS00ZTUxLTg5YTgtNGY1OGEyYzNlOGZjIiwidCI6ImJmMzQ2ODEwLTljN2QtNDNkZS1hODcyLTI0YTJlZjM5OTVhOCJ9" class="govuk-link">interactive dashboard.
There were estimated to be approximately 120,300 social workers in the United Kingdom as of the fourth quarter of 2024, compared with 129,700 in the previous quarter.
In 2023/24, there were around 50,500 knife offences recorded in England and Wales, compared with 48,400 in the previous reporting year.
The number of LinkedIn users in the United Kingdom was forecast to continuously increase between 2024 and 2028 by in total 1.5 million users (+4.51 percent). After the eighth consecutive increasing year, the LinkedIn user base is estimated to reach 34.7 million users and therefore a new peak in 2028. User figures, shown here with regards to the platform LinkedIn, have been estimated by taking into account company filings or press material, secondary research, app downloads and traffic data. They refer to the average monthly active users over the period and count multiple accounts by persons only once.The shown data are an excerpt of Statista's Key Market Indicators (KMI). The KMI are a collection of primary and secondary indicators on the macro-economic, demographic and technological environment in up to 150 countries and regions worldwide. All indicators are sourced from international and national statistical offices, trade associations and the trade press and they are processed to generate comparable data sets (see supplementary notes under details for more information).
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5a80212940f0b62302691b0d/cw0203.ods">Walking and cycling levels demographic breakdown: England (ODS, 11 KB)
Walking and cycling statistics
Email mailto:activetravel.stats@dft.gov.uk">activetravel.stats@dft.gov.uk
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Between November 2023 and November 2024, over 6.5 million people in England regularly participated in running. This represented an increase over the previous study period's figure of 6.2 million.
In January 2025, there were almost 34.71 million Instagram users in the United Kingdom (UK). The number of users on Instagram in the UK rose quickly between January and February 2023 and has remained relatively stable since then. Influencers in the UK As of 2020, the most followed Instagram influencer in the UK was David Beckham. The former England international footballer and current president of Inter Miami FC had over 65 million followers. DuaLipa was the top female influencer on Instagram in the UK. Instagram demographics As of September 2024, Instagram's largest demographic in the UK is women between the ages of 25 and 34 years, which accounts for 15.6 percent of the social platform's users in the country. In contrast, men and women belonging to the 65 years or older age group account for less than five percent of the network's users in the UK. Instagram is most popular with the younger generation, much like another social media app which has recently been making waves; TikTok.
Statistics about walking and cycling in England for 2017, based on 2 main sources, the National Travel Survey and the Active Lives Survey.
In 2017:
In the year ending mid-November 2017:
Walking and cycling statistics
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On 1 April 2025 responsibility for fire and rescue transferred from the Home Office to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government.
This information covers fires, false alarms and other incidents attended by fire crews, and the statistics include the numbers of incidents, fires, fatalities and casualties as well as information on response times to fires. The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) also collect information on the workforce, fire prevention work, health and safety and firefighter pensions. All data tables on fire statistics are below.
MHCLG has responsibility for fire services in England. The vast majority of data tables produced by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government are for England but some (0101, 0103, 0201, 0501, 1401) tables are for Great Britain split by nation. In the past the Department for Communities and Local Government (who previously had responsibility for fire services in England) produced data tables for Great Britain and at times the UK. Similar information for devolved administrations are available at https://www.firescotland.gov.uk/about/statistics/" class="govuk-link">Scotland: Fire and Rescue Statistics, https://statswales.gov.wales/Catalogue/Community-Safety-and-Social-Inclusion/Community-Safety" class="govuk-link">Wales: Community safety and https://www.nifrs.org/home/about-us/publications/" class="govuk-link">Northern Ireland: Fire and Rescue Statistics.
If you use assistive technology (for example, a screen reader) and need a version of any of these documents in a more accessible format, please email alternativeformats@homeoffice.gov.uk. Please tell us what format you need. It will help us if you say what assistive technology you use.
Fire statistics guidance
Fire statistics incident level datasets
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/67fe79e3393a986ec5cf8dbe/FIRE0101.xlsx">FIRE0101: Incidents attended by fire and rescue services by nation and population (MS Excel Spreadsheet, 126 KB) Previous FIRE0101 tables
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/67fe79fbed87b81608546745/FIRE0102.xlsx">FIRE0102: Incidents attended by fire and rescue services in England, by incident type and fire and rescue authority (MS Excel Spreadsheet, 1.56 MB) Previous FIRE0102 tables
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/67fe7a20694d57c6b1cf8db0/FIRE0103.xlsx">FIRE0103: Fires attended by fire and rescue services by nation and population (MS Excel Spreadsheet, 156 KB) Previous FIRE0103 tables
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/67fe7a40ed87b81608546746/FIRE0104.xlsx">FIRE0104: Fire false alarms by reason for false alarm, England (MS Excel Spreadsheet, 331 KB) Previous FIRE0104 tables
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/67fe7a5f393a986ec5cf8dc0/FIRE0201.xlsx">FIRE0201: Dwelling fires attended by fire and rescue services by motive, population and nation (MS Excel Spreadsheet, <span class="gem-c-attachm