There are 86 coroner’s areas in England and Wales. Using data from 22nd June 2022, we present the number of Prevention of Future Deaths (PFDs) by geographical area.
London (15.3%, n= 614) and Greater Manchester (14.5%, n=582) had the greatest number of PFDs. The median number of PFDs written by area was 39 (IQR: 17-61).


Table 1: Data used to plot figure 2, which is searchable, filterable, and can be downloaded for use.
corrected_area | Count |
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Manchester South | 326 |
Inner North London | 208 |
Birmingham and Solihull | 126 |
Surrey | 118 |
Inner South London | 110 |
Manchester West | 105 |
South Wales Central | 105 |
East London | 95 |
Manchester North | 95 |
West Yorkshire (Eastern) | 88 |
Norfolk | 87 |
Nottinghamshire | 79 |
Avon | 79 |
Black Country | 75 |
Cornwall and Isles of Scilly | 71 |
West Sussex | 68 |
North Wales (East and Central) | 67 |
Hampshire, Portsmouth and Southampton | 66 |
County Durham and Darlington | 66 |
West Yorkshire (Western) | 64 |
Leicester City and South Leicestershire | 61 |
Brighton and Hove | 61 |
South Yorkshire (Western) | 60 |
Staffordshire South | 60 |
North London | 59 |
Bedfordshire and Luton | 59 |
Inner West London | 59 |
Manchester City | 56 |
Milton Keynes | 54 |
Essex | 54 |
Cumbria | 52 |
Wiltshire and Swindon | 52 |
Lincolnshire | 49 |
Mid Kent and Medway | 48 |
Liverpool and the Wirral | 46 |
Plymouth, Torbay and South Devon | 45 |
Lancashire and Blackburn with Darwen | 45 |
South Yorkshire (Eastern) | 44 |
Exeter and Greater Devon | 43 |
Dorset | 43 |
Stoke-on-Trent and North Staffordshire | 40 |
Suffolk | 40 |
Worcestershire | 39 |
West London | 39 |
Sunderland | 38 |
Blackpool and the Fylde | 37 |
South London | 36 |
Berkshire | 36 |
Gloucestershire | 33 |
Derby and Derbyshire | 32 |
Warwickshire | 31 |
Hertfordshire | 29 |
Oxfordshire | 26 |
Gwent | 26 |
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough | 26 |
Cheshire | 25 |
Central and South East Kent | 23 |
Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin | 21 |
Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire | 21 |
Coventry | 19 |
Isle of Wight | 19 |
Buckinghamshire | 18 |
Swansea and Neath Port Talbot | 17 |
Northamptonshire | 17 |
Newcastle upon Tyne | 17 |
North East Kent | 14 |
Somerset | 13 |
East Sussex | 13 |
North Northumberland | 12 |
North West Wales | 11 |
Teesside | 11 |
East Riding and Hull | 10 |
North Yorkshire (Western) | 9 |
City of London | 8 |
Rutland and North Leicestershire | 7 |
North West Kent | 7 |
Gateshead and South Tyneside | 7 |
North Lincolnshire and Grimsby | 4 |
South Northumberland | 4 |
North Yorkshire (Eastern) | 4 |
North Tyneside | 4 |
York City | 3 |
Sefton, Knowsley and St Helens | 2 |
Herefordshire | 2 |
Hartlepool | 2 |
Ceredigion | 1 |