2025 Action Scorecards

Question · Action Scorecards 2025

Is bus ridership within the council's area high?

Question code
2.8b
Section
Transport
Topic
Buses
Source
National Data
Question weight
Medium

Criteria

Two-tier criteria:
First tier criteria met if bus passenger journeys are over 75 per head of population

Second tier criteria met if bus passenger journeys are over 150 per head of population.

Clarifications

This question is applicable to English transport authorities only.

Where the data is combined at a ITA level - we are scoring all constituent councils as one. For example, all councils within Greater Manchester ITA will be scored according to the Greater Manchester ITA bus ridership figures.

Marked using Department for Transport data (BUS 0110): Passenger journeys on local bus services per head of population by local authority: England - https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/bus01-local-bus-passenger-journeys

Question performance

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21 county councils

1 point

0 county councils

2 points

0 county councils

Performance comparison between 2023 and 2025

county councils

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councils scored higher in 2025
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councils scored lower in 2025

Legends for difference column

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CouncilScoreDifference2023Evidence
Cambridgeshire County Council
Score 2025
0/2
2023 Difference
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0/2--Evidence doesn't meet criteria
Derbyshire County Council
Score 2025
0/2
2023 Difference
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0/2--Evidence doesn't meet criteria
Devon County Council
Score 2025
0/2
2023 Difference
--
0/2--Evidence doesn't meet criteria
East Sussex County Council
Score 2025
0/2
2023 Difference
--
0/2--Evidence doesn't meet criteria
Essex County Council
Score 2025
0/2
2023 Difference
--
0/2--Evidence doesn't meet criteria
Gloucestershire County Council
Score 2025
0/2
2023 Difference
--
0/2--Evidence doesn't meet criteria
Hampshire County Council
Score 2025
0/2
2023 Difference
--
0/2--Evidence doesn't meet criteria
Hertfordshire County Council
Score 2025
0/2
2023 Difference
--
0/2--Evidence doesn't meet criteria
Kent County Council
Score 2025
0/2
2023 Difference
--
0/2--Evidence doesn't meet criteria
Lancashire County Council
Score 2025
0/2
2023 Difference
--
0/2--Evidence doesn't meet criteria
Leicestershire County Council
Score 2025
0/2
2023 Difference
--
0/2--Evidence doesn't meet criteria
Lincolnshire County Council
Score 2025
0/2
2023 Difference
--
0/2--Evidence doesn't meet criteria
Norfolk County Council
Score 2025
0/2
2023 Difference
--
0/2--Evidence doesn't meet criteria
Nottinghamshire County Council
Score 2025
0/2
2023 Difference
--
0/2--Evidence doesn't meet criteria
Oxfordshire County Council
Score 2025
0/2
2023 Difference
--
0/2--Evidence doesn't meet criteria
Staffordshire County Council
Score 2025
0/2
2023 Difference
--
0/2--Evidence doesn't meet criteria
Suffolk County Council
Score 2025
0/2
2023 Difference
--
0/2--Evidence doesn't meet criteria
Surrey County Council
Score 2025
0/2
2023 Difference
--
0/2--Evidence doesn't meet criteria
Warwickshire County Council
Score 2025
0/2
2023 Difference
--
0/2--Evidence doesn't meet criteria
West Sussex County Council
Score 2025
0/2
2023 Difference
--
0/2--Evidence doesn't meet criteria
Worcestershire County Council
Score 2025
0/2
2023 Difference
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0/2--Evidence doesn't meet criteria