Coroner reports by geography - Preventable Deaths Tracker

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.

Read our analysis of geographical variation

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
Greater Manchester South	411	533	406	217	40	35	94	6
London Inner North	253	354	273	138	38	26	56	4
West Sussex, Brighton and Hove	157	196	171	78	39	16	29	3
Birmingham and Solihull	151	286	225	87	30	31	20	2
Surrey	150	234	163	48	20	35	33	2
London East	143	228	123	52	22	18	58	6
London Inner South	130	225	176	42	18	37	20	2
South Wales Central	122	163	109	50	30	16	29	1
Greater Manchester North	111	149	125	53	35	14	21	0
Greater Manchester West	109	121	101	46	38	9	25	0
Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent	109	120	106	51	42	9	25	0
Nottinghamshire	107	163	103	45	27	13	28	5
Norfolk	104	93	101	57	61	5	14	1
Yorkshire West Eastern	104	140	105	50	35	11	24	0
Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly	100	148	110	56	37	13	23	3
County of Devon, Plymouth & Torbay	95	111	126	43	38	13	16	1
North Wales (East & Central)	92	108	73	48	44	4	22	2
Avon	91	124	83	33	26	15	24	2
Yorkshire South West	83	104	71	37	35	6	25	5
The Black Country Jurisdiction	82	100	74	39	39	10	17	0
Hampshire, Portsmouth and Southampton	82	111	77	32	28	13	23	0
County Durham and Darlington	81	109	90	37	33	10	16	1
Yorkshire West Western	78	106	58	29	27	10	30	0
Essex	72	96	47	22	22	9	30	2
London Inner West	72	118	54	18	15	14	28	2
Bedfordshire and Luton	72	93	64	30	32	9	16	1
Leicester City and South Leicestershire	69	77	100	37	48	7	3	0
Milton Keynes	67	84	60	28	33	7	25	0
Cumbria	66	70	64	28	40	9	14	0
Manchester City	62	107	56	22	20	11	22	0
London North	62	43	68	21	48	2	11	0
Dorset	59	112	115	39	34	7	10	1
Liverpool and the Wirral	58	73	50	26	35	10	13	0
Kent Mid and Medway	57	62	46	28	45	4	17	2
Suffolk	57	86	53	26	30	8	15	3
London West	53	78	30	19	24	3	24	1
Berkshire	52	81	54	19	23	11	13	1
Worcestershire	52	61	49	25	40	5	11	1
Wiltshire and Swindon	51	49	48	21	42	1	16	0
Lancashire and Blackburn with Darwen	50	50	26	21	42	1	21	0
Yorkshire South East	48	45	37	21	46	2	10	2
Derby and Derbyshire	48	75	38	20	26	5	18	1
Blackpool and Fylde	45	53	33	23	43	2	15	0
Sunderland	42	46	41	22	47	2	7	1
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough	39	73	41	11	15	7	15	0
London South	39	62	41	15	24	2	14	0
Warwickshire	39	52	24	17	32	2	16	0
Gwent	38	42	33	21	50	3	9	1
Cheshire	36	54	32	16	29	6	11	1
Gloucestershire	35	45	28	20	44	4	10	0
Newcastle and North Tyneside	33	46	37	16	34	5	9	0
Hertfordshire	31	36	27	17	47	1	9	0
Lincolnshire	31	39	24	17	43	2	12	0
Northamptonshire	29	45	26	13	28	4	9	0
Oxfordshire	27	20	28	14	70	0	2	0
Kent Central and South East	27	26	14	9	34	1	10	0
North Yorkshire and York	26	38	24	8	21	3	10	2
East Riding of Yorkshire and Kingston-upon-Hull	26	41	27	12	29	3	10	0
Swansea and Neath Port Talbot	24	32	19	12	37	1	6	1
Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin	23	24	22	11	45	2	5	0
Somerset	22	28	14	7	25	3	9	0
East Sussex	22	39	41	18	46	1	0	2
North West Wales	21	22	19	11	50	1	3	2
Kent North East	21	35	19	8	22	5	5	0
Buckinghamshire	21	20	15	9	45	0	8	0
Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire	21	19	16	9	47	0	6	0
Coventry	19	21	8	4	19	0	10	0
Isle of Wight	19	23	13	6	26	3	5	0
Northumberland	18	17	16	6	35	3	3	0
London City	15	32	21	6	18	4	4	0
South Lincolnshire	15	16	3	1	6	1	6	0
Herefordshire	11	13	10	8	61	0	2	1
Teesside	10	5	10	3	60	1	0	0
Lincolnshire (Central)	9	3	6	2	66	0	1	0
Rutland and North Leicestershire	9	11	7	2	18	1	3	0
Kent North West	8	9	7	6	66	1	1	0
Hartlepool	8	10	6	2	20	2	2	1
Gateshead and South Tyneside	8	14	2	1	7	0	4	0
Sefton, Knowsley and St Helens	6	11	3	0	0	3	3	0
Exeter and Greater Devon	5	4	3	1	25	0	2	0
Central Lincolnshire	4	2	1	1	50	0	1	0
North Lincolnshire & Grimsby	3	0	2	0	0	0	0	0
North Lincolnshire and Grimsby	3	3	1	1	33	0	2	0
Lincolnshire (South)	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	0
Ceredigion	1	2	2	1	50	0	0	0

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