Annual bus statistics: year ending March 2024 (revised)
Source: gov.uk (2025-03-27)

Annual statistics on local buses in Great Britain for the year ending March 2024.

Revision

Finalised data on government support for buses was not available when these statistics were originally published (27 November 2024). The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) have since published that data so the following have been revised to include it:
- the financial outlook in this publication
- tables BUS04i and BUS04ii (https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/bus-statistics-data-tables#costs-fares-and-revenue-bus04) covering costs, fares and revenue
- tables BUS05i and BUS05ii (https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/bus-statistics-data-tables#government-support-for-the-bus-industry-and-concessionary-travel-england-bus05) covering government support
There is more than one source available for figures on concessionary travel spending. In the concessionary travel statistics (https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/concessionary-travel-statistics-year-ending-march-2024), the expenditure figures are based on the Concessionary Travel survey.

Revision

The following figures relating to local bus passenger journeys per head have been revised:
- table BUS01f (https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/bus-statistics-data-tables#local-bus-passenger-journeys-bus01)
- chart 5 (https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/annual-bus-statistics-year-ending-march-2024/annual-bus-statistics-year-ending-march-2024#passenger-journeys)
- map 1 (https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/annual-bus-statistics-year-ending-march-2024/annual-bus-statistics-year-ending-march-2024#passenger-journeys)
Table BUS01f provides figures on passenger journeys per head of population at Local Transport Authority (LTA) level. Population data for 21 counties were duplicated in error, resulting in the halving of figures in this table. This issue does not affect any other figures in the published tables, including the regional and national breakdowns.

The affected LTAs were: Cambridgeshire, Derbyshire, Devon, East Sussex, Essex, Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Hertfordshire, Kent, Lancashire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Norfolk, Nottinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Staffordshire, Suffolk, Surrey, Warwickshire, West Sussex, and Worcestershire.

A minor typo in the units was also corrected in the BUS02_mi spreadsheet.

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Local bus statistics in Great Britain, including passengers, mileage, and vehicle fleet, for the year ending March 2024.

The summary relates only to England to match the coverage of Department for Transport bus policy, but the tables also cover Scotland and Wales.

In the year ending March 2024, the number of bus passenger journeys:
- increased by 7% in England
- increased by 5% in London
- increased by 10% in England outside of London
In the year ending March 2024, bus service mileage:
- remained broadly stable in England
- remained broadly stable in London
- increased by 1% in England outside of London
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