Statistical data set: Vehicle licensing statistics data files

Published: 24 September 2024
By Chris Haycock

Data tables containing aggregated information about vehicles in the UK are also available.

A number of changes were introduced to these data files in the 2022 release to help meet the needs of our users and to provide more detail.

Fuel type has been added to:

• df_VEH0120_GB
• df_VEH0120_UK
• df_VEH0160_GB
• df_VEH0160_UK

Historic UK data has been added to:

• df_VEH0124 (now split into 2 files)
• df_VEH0220
• df_VEH0270

A new datafile has been added df_VEH0520.

We welcome any feedback on the structure of our data files, their usability, or any suggestions for improvements; please contact vehicles statistics.

CSV files can be used either as a spreadsheet (using Microsoft Excel or similar spreadsheet packages) or digitally using software packages and languages (for example, R or Python).

When using as a spreadsheet, there will be no formatting, but the file can still be explored like our publication tables. Due to their size, older software might not be able to open the entire file.

df_VEH0120_GB: Vehicles at the end of the quarter by licence status, body type, make, generic model and model: Great Britain (CSV, 56.2 MB)

Scope: All registered vehicles in Great Britain; from 1994 Quarter 4 (end December)

Schema: BodyType, Make, GenModel, Model, Fuel, LicenceStatus, [number of vehicles; 1 column per quarter]

df_VEH0120_UK: Vehicles at the end of the quarter by licence status, body type, make, generic model and model: United Kingdom (CSV, 32.5 MB)

Scope: All registered vehicles in the United Kingdom; from 2014 Quarter 3 (end September)

Schema: BodyType, Make, GenModel, Model, Fuel, LicenceStatus, [number of vehicles; 1 column per quarter]

df_VEH0160_GB: Vehicles registered for the first time by body type, make, generic model and model: Great Britain (CSV, 24.1 MB)

Scope: All vehicles registered for the first time in Great Britain; from 2001 Quarter 1 (January to March)

Schema: BodyType, Make, GenModel, Model, Fuel, [number of vehicles; 1 column per quarter]

df_VEH0160_UK: Vehicles registered for the first time by body type, make, generic model and model: United Kingdom (CSV, 7.77 MB)

Scope: All vehicles registered for the first time in the United Kingdom; from 2014 Quarter 3 (July to September)

Schema: BodyType, Make, GenModel, Model, Fuel, [number of vehicles; 1 column per quarter]

In order to keep the datafile df_VEH0124 to a reasonable size, it has been split into 2 halves; 1 covering makes starting with A to M, and the other covering makes starting with N to Z.

df_VEH0124_AM: Vehicles at the end of the year by licence status, body type, make (A to M), generic model, model, year of first use and year of manufacture: United Kingdom (CSV, 44.7 MB)

Scope: All licensed vehicles in the United Kingdom with Make starting with A to M; annually from 2014

Schema: BodyType, Make, GenModel, Model, YearFirstUsed, YearManufacture, LicenceStatus, [number of vehicles; 1 column per year]

df_VEH0124_NZ: Vehicles at the end of the year by licence status, body type, make (N to Z), generic model, model, year of first use and year of manufacture: United Kingdom (CSV, 32.7 MB)

Scope: All licensed vehicles in the United Kingdom with Make starting with N to Z; annually from 2014

Schema: BodyType, Make, GenModel, Model, YearFirstUsed, YearManufacture, LicenceStatus, [number of vehicles; 1 column per year]

df_VEH0220: Vehicles at the end of the year by licence status, body type, make, generic model, model, fuel type and engine size: United Kingdom (CSV, 35.8 MB)

Scope: All licensed vehicles in the United Kingdom; annually from 2014

Schema: BodyType, Make, GenModel, Model, Fuel, EngineSizeSimple, EngineSizeDesc, LicenceStatus, [number of vehicles; 1 column per year]

df_VEH0270: Vehicles registered for the first time by body type, make, generic model, model, fuel type and engine size: United Kingdom (CSV, 7.65 MB)

Scope: All vehicles registered for the first time in the United Kingdom; annually from 2015

Schema: BodyType, Make, GenModel, Model, Fuel, EngineSizeSimple, EngineSizeDesc, [number of vehicles; 1 column per year]

In order to keep these files to a reasonable size, small areas which have never had 5 or more vehicles in scope are excluded from these datasets, with those vehicles combined into the Miscellaneous row. This means a number of LSOAs will be missing from the file.

df_VEH0125: Vehicles at the end of the quarter by licence status, body type, keepership and lower super output area (LSOA): United Kingdom (CSV, 225 MB)

Scope: All licensed vehicles in the United Kingdom; Great Britain from 2009 Quarter 4 (end December); and United Kingdom from 2014 Quarter 3 (end September)

Schema: LSOA11CD, LSOA11NM, BodyType, Keepership, LicenceStatus, [number of vehicles; 1 column per quarter]

df_VEH0135: Licensed ultra low emission vehicles (ULEVs) at the end of the quarter by fuel type, keepership and lower super output area (LSOA): United Kingdom (CSV, 82.9 MB)

Scope: All licensed ultra low emission vehicles in the United Kingdom; from 2011 Quarter 4 (end December)

Schema: LS