There are 81 coroner areas in England and Wales. Most coroners’ Prevention of Future Deaths reports are written in Manchester and London, but this varies with some areas writing many and others writing few.
Hover over each area to see how many have been published. Download the data here.
This map was created using the coroners’ areas from the Coroners’ Society website. However, areas have merged and changed over time, which we try to account for when cleaning the data.
For example, PFDs in South Staffordshire have been added to North Staffordshire and Stoke on Trend; PFDs in Northumberland have been added to Northumberland North; PFDs in Yorkshire West have been assigned to Yorkshire West Western; and PFDs previously published in Cardiff, Glamorgan valleys and Powys have been merged into South Wales Central.
Reports by the 81 coroner areas in England and Wales
PFDs by coroner area and response rate
coroner_area | no. PFDs | sent to count | replies count | received | % received | partial | overdue | pending |
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Greater Manchester South | 413 | 532 | 412 | 222 | 41 | 34 | 90 | 8 |
London Inner North | 256 | 352 | 279 | 143 | 40 | 24 | 56 | 4 |
West Sussex, Brighton and Hove | 158 | 195 | 171 | 80 | 41 | 14 | 30 | 3 |
Birmingham and Solihull | 153 | 294 | 230 | 89 | 30 | 31 | 18 | 4 |
Surrey | 151 | 235 | 167 | 50 | 21 | 34 | 32 | 3 |
London East | 144 | 227 | 128 | 53 | 23 | 20 | 55 | 7 |
London Inner South | 130 | 221 | 176 | 42 | 19 | 37 | 20 | 2 |
South Wales Central | 122 | 161 | 109 | 50 | 31 | 16 | 29 | 1 |
Greater Manchester North | 114 | 152 | 126 | 54 | 35 | 14 | 20 | 3 |
Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent | 110 | 122 | 108 | 51 | 41 | 10 | 24 | 1 |
Greater Manchester West | 109 | 119 | 102 | 49 | 41 | 7 | 24 | 0 |
Nottinghamshire | 107 | 162 | 105 | 47 | 29 | 13 | 28 | 3 |
Norfolk | 105 | 94 | 104 | 60 | 63 | 5 | 11 | 2 |
Yorkshire West Eastern | 105 | 140 | 105 | 51 | 36 | 10 | 24 | 1 |
Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly | 100 | 145 | 112 | 58 | 40 | 13 | 21 | 3 |
County of Devon, Plymouth & Torbay | 95 | 109 | 126 | 45 | 41 | 11 | 17 | 0 |
North Wales (East & Central) | 92 | 107 | 79 | 50 | 46 | 5 | 20 | 1 |
Avon | 91 | 123 | 83 | 33 | 26 | 15 | 25 | 1 |
Yorkshire South West | 84 | 105 | 73 | 38 | 36 | 7 | 23 | 6 |
The Black Country Jurisdiction | 82 | 100 | 75 | 39 | 39 | 11 | 16 | 0 |
Hampshire, Portsmouth and Southampton | 82 | 111 | 77 | 32 | 28 | 13 | 23 | 0 |
County Durham and Darlington | 81 | 103 | 93 | 39 | 37 | 11 | 14 | 0 |
Yorkshire West Western | 79 | 106 | 59 | 29 | 27 | 10 | 30 | 1 |
Essex | 72 | 96 | 49 | 23 | 23 | 9 | 30 | 1 |
London Inner West | 72 | 114 | 56 | 19 | 16 | 14 | 29 | 0 |
Bedfordshire and Luton | 72 | 90 | 64 | 30 | 33 | 9 | 17 | 0 |
Leicester City and South Leicestershire | 70 | 74 | 100 | 39 | 52 | 5 | 3 | 1 |
Milton Keynes | 68 | 85 | 60 | 28 | 32 | 7 | 25 | 1 |
Cumbria | 66 | 70 | 66 | 30 | 42 | 9 | 12 | 0 |
Manchester City | 63 | 109 | 57 | 23 | 21 | 11 | 21 | 1 |
London North | 62 | 43 | 68 | 21 | 48 | 2 | 11 | 0 |
Dorset | 59 | 109 | 121 | 41 | 37 | 7 | 9 | 0 |
Suffolk | 58 | 87 | 55 | 27 | 31 | 7 | 17 | 2 |
Liverpool and the Wirral | 58 | 73 | 50 | 26 | 35 | 10 | 13 | 0 |
Kent Mid and Medway | 57 | 62 | 46 | 28 | 45 | 4 | 19 | 0 |
Wiltshire and Swindon | 54 | 54 | 49 | 21 | 38 | 2 | 16 | 2 |
Berkshire | 53 | 80 | 55 | 19 | 23 | 11 | 13 | 2 |
London West | 53 | 77 | 30 | 19 | 24 | 3 | 25 | 0 |
Worcestershire | 52 | 61 | 50 | 25 | 40 | 6 | 10 | 1 |
Lancashire and Blackburn with Darwen | 50 | 50 | 26 | 21 | 42 | 1 | 21 | 0 |
Derby and Derbyshire | 49 | 76 | 43 | 21 | 27 | 5 | 17 | 2 |
Yorkshire South East | 48 | 45 | 38 | 22 | 48 | 1 | 10 | 2 |
Blackpool and Fylde | 46 | 55 | 33 | 23 | 41 | 2 | 15 | 1 |
Sunderland | 42 | 46 | 42 | 22 | 47 | 2 | 7 | 1 |
Warwickshire | 41 | 52 | 26 | 17 | 32 | 3 | 15 | 2 |
London South | 39 | 60 | 41 | 15 | 25 | 2 | 14 | 0 |
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough | 39 | 71 | 41 | 12 | 16 | 6 | 15 | 0 |
Gwent | 38 | 42 | 34 | 22 | 52 | 3 | 8 | 1 |
Cheshire | 37 | 55 | 34 | 17 | 30 | 6 | 11 | 1 |
Gloucestershire | 35 | 45 | 28 | 20 | 44 | 4 | 10 | 0 |
Newcastle and North Tyneside | 33 | 46 | 37 | 16 | 34 | 5 | 9 | 0 |
Lincolnshire | 31 | 38 | 24 | 16 | 42 | 2 | 12 | 0 |
Hertfordshire | 31 | 35 | 27 | 18 | 51 | 0 | 9 | 0 |
Northamptonshire | 29 | 45 | 27 | 13 | 28 | 5 | 8 | 0 |
Kent Central and South East | 27 | 26 | 14 | 9 | 34 | 1 | 10 | 0 |
Oxfordshire | 27 | 20 | 28 | 14 | 70 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
North Yorkshire and York | 26 | 38 | 24 | 8 | 21 | 3 | 10 | 2 |
East Riding of Yorkshire and Kingston-upon-Hull | 26 | 41 | 31 | 13 | 31 | 4 | 8 | 0 |
Swansea and Neath Port Talbot | 24 | 32 | 19 | 12 | 37 | 1 | 7 | 0 |
Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin | 23 | 24 | 22 | 11 | 45 | 2 | 5 | 0 |
Somerset | 23 | 29 | 14 | 7 | 24 | 3 | 9 | 1 |
East Sussex | 22 | 39 | 42 | 18 | 46 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire | 21 | 19 | 16 | 9 | 47 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
North West Wales | 21 | 22 | 21 | 13 | 59 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
Buckinghamshire | 21 | 20 | 15 | 9 | 45 | 0 | 8 | 0 |
Kent North East | 21 | 35 | 19 | 8 | 22 | 5 | 5 | 0 |
Isle of Wight | 19 | 21 | 13 | 6 | 28 | 3 | 5 | 0 |
Northumberland | 19 | 18 | 16 | 6 | 33 | 3 | 3 | 1 |
Coventry | 19 | 20 | 8 | 4 | 20 | 0 | 10 | 0 |
South Lincolnshire | 15 | 16 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 6 | 0 |
London City | 15 | 31 | 21 | 6 | 19 | 4 | 4 | 0 |
Herefordshire | 11 | 13 | 10 | 8 | 61 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
Teesside | 10 | 5 | 10 | 3 | 60 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Rutland and North Leicestershire | 9 | 10 | 8 | 3 | 30 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
Lincolnshire (Central) | 9 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 66 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Gateshead and South Tyneside | 9 | 13 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 1 |
Kent North West | 8 | 9 | 7 | 6 | 66 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Hartlepool | 8 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 30 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
Sefton, Knowsley and St Helens | 6 | 11 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 |
Exeter and Greater Devon | 5 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 50 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Central Lincolnshire | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 50 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
North Lincolnshire and Grimsby | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 33 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
North Lincolnshire & Grimsby | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Ceredigion | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 50 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Lincolnshire (South) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Other analyses
Cite the Tracker
Richards, GC. 2024. The Preventable Deaths Tracker. https://preventabledeathstracker.net/