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England · towns and cities · Census 2021

Households with no car or van

Share of all households.

England median: 16.6%
Published coverage: 1,290 of 1,291

Order

Households with no car or van ranked across England towns and cities, Census 2021
Rank	Town or city	Published value	From median
1	Bradford	70.8%	+54.2 points
2	Rochdale	66.4%	+49.8 points
3	Sheffield	63.6%	+47.0 points
4	Liverpool	61.1%	+44.5 points
5	Leicester	61.0%	+44.4 points
6	Coventry	60.0%	+43.4 points
7	Leeds (Leeds)	58.4%	+41.8 points
8	Oldham	56.0%	+39.4 points

Showing 1–8 of 1,290; 1 towns and cities have no publishable value.

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Rank is the position after sorting the published value. “Highest” and “lowest” describe the numbers; they do not mean best or worst. Places with the same displayed value share a rank.

Households with no car or van available. In city centres this usually reflects good transport and parking costs rather than anything else. Census day was 21 March 2021, during coronavirus restrictions: students were largely counted at a parental address rather than a term-time one, and workplace populations were displaced. The census is taken once a decade, so this is now several years old. It describes the LSOA around this postcode — a neighbourhood of roughly 1,500 people — and not this address. Small counts are deliberately adjusted to protect confidentiality, so categories need not sum exactly to their totals and a difference of a person or two is noise. England and Wales only: Scotland ran its own census in 2022, published separately by National Records of Scotland.

Source: Census 2021; Office for National Statistics
Reference period: Census 2021
Data imported: 24 August 2026; Open Government Licence

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