This statistical release presents information on taxis and private hire vehicles (PHVs) in England as at 1 April 2024. This includes PHV operators and drivers who use app-based technology. However, we are not able to disaggregate which drivers are using these apps in the figures presented. The release also includes statistics under development on the fuel type and age of taxis and PHVs, which were first issued in 2022 and now have several years of data available.

Data for 2024 represent the position as at 1 April this year. This allows policy changes introduced on 1 April (the start of a new financial year) to be captured, so that the latest possible picture is presented in these statistics. Prior to the 2023 release, the data represented the position as at 31 March.

Since 2018, figures are updated every year through surveying each licensing authority (a unitary or lower tier authority) in England and Wales. Prior to that, the survey was conducted every other year. Some of the data are derived from other additional sources.

Headline figures

The total number of licensed taxi and PHV vehicles and driver licences in England have both continued their long-term upward trend, reaching 313,000 and 381,100 respectively on 1 April 2024. The increase since 2023 has been driven by a 10.5% increase in the number of PHVs, reaching 256,600. The number of taxis has decreased over the same period by 1.4% to 56,400.