Traffic
How busy are the roads near you?
The Department for Transport counts traffic at tens of thousands of points on Britain's roads. See the vehicles a day on the counted roads nearest your postcode, what is driving them, and whether it is getting busier or quieter.
- Vehicles a day
- Cars, vans, lorries & bikes
- Ten-year trend
How this works
Every stretch of major road in Great Britain, and a sample of minor roads, has a count point where the Department for Transport records traffic, either by a manual count on a neutral weekday or estimated from nearby counts and national trends. From those it publishes an annual average daily flow, the vehicles passing on an average day in both directions, split by type. The page reads the road traffic statistics API for your local authority’s count points, picks the nearest, and fetches every year’s flow for them. Figures are updated once a year; the page caches them for a day.
Sources
- Department for Transport road traffic statistics (annual average daily flow by count point). Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Postcodes: postcodes.io / ONS Postcode Directory (OGL v3).
Minor road figures come from occasional counts and carry more uncertainty than the major road figures. Northern Ireland is not covered.