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MOJ Coroner Statistics

147,743 deaths reported (2025) 35,987 inquests opened 654 PFDs issued 109 coroner areas

Annual statistics on inquests, PFDs issued and processing times by coroner area. Source.

Key findings (2025). Inner North London issued the most Prevention of Future Deaths reports (43). Across all years, 2,778 PFDs have been issued from 2,264,730 reported deaths.

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PFD reports per 1,000 reported deaths across all indexed years; areas with at least 500 reported deaths
Coroner area	PFD reports per 1,000 deaths
Manchester South	8.2
West Sussex, Brighton and Hove	5.3
Inner North London	5.2
South Northumberland	5.0
Milton Keynes	4.1
North Northumberland	4.1
East London	3.4
Cornwall and Isles of Scilly	3.1
Northumberland	2.6
North Yorkshire and York	2.6
Kent and Medway	2.5
Newcastle and North Tyneside	2.3
Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent	2.3
Surrey	2.3
Berkshire	2.2

Key Findings

2,264,730 deaths reported to coroners across all years. 2778 Prevention of Future Deaths reports issued.

National Summary by Year

Year	Deaths Reported	Inquests Opened	Inquests Concluded	PFDs Issued
2025	147,743	35,987	39,851	654
2024	174,824	36,660	40,441	711
2023	194,939	36,853	40,297	569
2022	208,322	36,273	36,391	404
2021	195,093	32,762	33,051	440
2020	205,364	31,991	31,535	0
2019	210,838	29,969	32,133	0
2018	220,596	29,094	31,566	0
2017	229,703	31,559	34,885	0
2016	240,972	38,626	41,220	0
2015	236,336	32,857	36,201	0

All Areas — Summary

Coroner Area	Total Deaths	Total PFDs	Total Concluded
Avon	42,854	34	9,415
Bedfordshire and Luton	22,117	26	3,384
Berkshire	23,646	51	4,965
Birmingham and Solihull	55,503	89	8,788
Black Country	49,670	13	8,667
Blackburn, Hyndburn and Ribble Valley	3,933	0	613
Blackpool and the Fylde	14,455	29	3,369
Brighton and Hove	9,736	10	2,046
Buckinghamshire	13,995	9	2,686
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough	38,086	36	5,775
Cardiff and Vale of Glamorgan	1,568	0	293
Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire	16,409	5	1,904
Central Hampshire	7,156	0	879
Central Lincolnshire	4,738	0	543
Central and South East Kent	14,270	7	2,563
Ceredigion	3,434	2	297
Cheshire	37,978	36	7,927
City of London	2,723	4	619
Cornwall	2,868	0	337
Cornwall and Isles of Scilly	23,896	74	4,501
County Durham and Darlington	31,011	45	5,696
Coventry	16,587	5	3,658
Cumbria	21,326	37	4,201
Derby and Derbyshire	47,982	44	8,248
Devon, Plymouth and Torbay	7,396	16	1,787
Dorset	32,992	54	5,237
East Lancashire	1,341	0	227
East London	27,143	93	4,745
East Riding and Hull	29,914	36	3,967
East Sussex	23,956	18	3,501
Essex	67,515	62	8,778
Exeter and Greater Devon	21,484	4	3,117
Gateshead and South Tyneside	20,308	16	3,404
Gloucestershire	21,414	10	3,723
Greater Lincolnshire	6,184	4	1,826
Gwent	27,712	36	3,683
Hampshire, Portsmouth and Southampton	34,946	42	5,869
Herefordshire	7,858	13	1,376
Hertfordshire	30,554	11	4,369
Inner North London	27,669	145	6,713
Inner South London	36,897	47	5,770
Inner West London	24,731	33	4,098
Isle of Wight	8,154	1	1,482
Isles of Scilly	14	0	10
Kent and Medway	4,895	12	1,070
Lancashire and Blackburn with Darwen	33,374	18	6,265
Leicester City and South Leicestershire	18,549	18	3,163
Leicester and South Leicestershire	7,149	0	1,076
Lincolnshire	22,223	16	3,322
Liverpool and the Wirral	36,272	34	10,390
Manchester City	30,966	16	8,955
Manchester North	24,687	49	6,354
Manchester South	27,647	228	7,586
Manchester West	39,814	37	7,686
Mid Kent and Medway	20,625	18	4,116
Milton Keynes	8,871	36	1,658
Newcastle and North Tyneside	6,124	14	1,465
Newcastle upon Tyne	15,417	0	3,549
Norfolk	38,162	53	6,715
North East Hampshire	7,206	0	764
North East Kent	16,286	11	3,027
North Leicestershire and Rutland	2,285	0	436
North Lincolnshire and Grimsby	13,868	2	1,388
North London	33,731	40	5,110
North Northumberland	6,044	25	1,136
North Tyneside	6,674	0	1,295
North Wales (East and Central)	27,560	54	3,905
North West Kent	17,976	2	2,428
North West Wales	10,003	15	1,490
North Yorkshire (Eastern)	6,280	0	1,055
North Yorkshire (Western)	6,405	2	1,275
North Yorkshire and York	8,168	21	2,362
Northamptonshire	27,302	24	3,254
Northumberland	2,697	7	550
Nottinghamshire	57,442	73	7,317
Oxfordshire	23,384	16	3,607
Plymouth, Torbay and South Devon	26,417	3	4,131
Portsmouth and South East Hampshire	14,533	0	2,046
Powys, Bridgend and Glamorgan Valleys	2,472	0	450
Preston and West Lancashire	5,084	0	735
Rutland and North Leicestershire	10,769	10	1,780
Sefton, Knowsley and St Helens	24,456	5	4,823
Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin	19,157	8	3,026
Somerset	26,239	15	3,472
South Lincolnshire	2,574	0	227
South London	28,244	25	4,118
South Northumberland	9,951	50	2,094
South Wales Central	32,929	43	5,522
South Yorkshire (Eastern)	25,083	15	4,502
South Yorkshire (Western)	35,167	54	6,859
South and Central Wales	3,919	0	789
Southampton and New Forest	10,641	0	1,310
Staffordshire South	18,853	10	2,796
Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent	10,860	25	2,808
Stoke-on-Trent and North Staffordshire	26,453	5	4,177
Suffolk	24,889	50	4,332
Sunderland	13,899	15	2,815
Surrey	40,169	92	7,082
Swansea and Neath Port Talbot	21,666	18	2,889
Teesside and Hartlepool	30,943	13	5,490
Warwickshire	18,610	17	3,637
West London	38,744	26	7,062
West Sussex	25,917	22	3,000
West Sussex, Brighton and Hove	10,609	56	2,324
West Yorkshire (Eastern)	41,254	63	9,854
West Yorkshire (Western)	34,483	44	6,102
Wiltshire and Swindon	26,130	12	3,108
Worcestershire	26,346	44	4,376
York City	5,061	0	1,010