Statistical data set

Road length statistics (RDL)

Data on road length by region, country, road type and local authority, produced by Department for Transport.

• From: Department for Transport
• Published: 5 July 2018
• Last updated: 21 March 2024 — See all updates

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Road length in miles (RDL01)

RDL0101: Road length (miles) by road type and region and country in Great Britain (ODS, 15.1 KB)

RDL0102: Road length (miles) by road type and local authority in Great Britain (ODS, 67.9 KB)

RDL0103: Road length (miles) by road type in Great Britain (ODS, 23.8 KB)

Road length in kilometres (RDL02)

RDL0201: Road length (kilometres) by road type, region and country in Great Britain (ODS, 15.1 KB)

RDL0202: Road length (kilometres) by road type and local authority in Great Britain (ODS, 68.6 KB)

RDL0203: Road length (kilometres) by road type in Great Britain (ODS, 24.3 KB)

Archived data (pre-2022)

Minor revision to due to correction of Major Roads Database for 2019. This affects 5 kilometres, or less, of road lengths in 2 local authorities in 2019.

RDL0101: Road length (miles) by road type and region and country in Great Britain (archived) (ODS, 151 KB)

RDL0102: Road length (miles) by road type and local authority in Great Britain (archived) (ODS, 1010 KB)

RDL0201: Road length (kilometres) by road type, region and country in Great Britain (archived) (ODS, 152 KB)

RDL0202: Road length (kilometres) by road type and local authority in Great Britain (archived) (ODS, 1020 KB)

RDL0101 (2021): Road length (miles) by road type and region and country in Great Britain (2021) (ODS, 12.5 KB)

RDL0102 (2021): Road length (miles) by road type and local authority in Great Britain (2021) (ODS, 58.6 KB)

RDL0201 (2021): Road length (kilometres) by road type, region and country in Great Britain (2021) (ODS, 13 KB)

RDL0202 (2021): Road length (kilometres) by road type and local authority in Great Britain (2021) (ODS, 59.8 KB)

RDL0101 (2022): Road length (miles) by road type and region and country in Great Britain (2022) (ODS, 15.5 KB)

RDL0102 (2022): Road length (miles) by road type and local authority in Great Britain (2022) (ODS, 77.1 KB)

RDL0201 (2022): Road length (kilometres) by road type, region and country in Great Britain (2022) (ODS, 15.6 KB)

RDL0202 (2022): Road length (kilometres) by road type and local authority in Great Britain (2022) (ODS, 76.5 KB)

Contact us

Road length statistics

Email road.length@dft.gov.uk

Media enquiries 0300 7777 878

Published 5 July 2018
Last updated 21 March 2024 + show all updates

1. 21 March 2024

   Data tables updated for the 2023 report and 2022 data tables added to the archived section.

2. 13 July 2023

   Data tables updated of the road length in Great Britain report for 2022.

3. 10 March 2022

   Data tables updated for the Road lengths in Great Britain 2021 report.

4. 4 February 2021

   Data tables updated for the Road lengths in Great Britain 2020 report.

5. 23 January 2020

   Data tables updated for the road lengths 2019 report.

6. 14 May 2019

   Data tables updated for the 2018 annual statistics release.

7. 5 July 2018

   First published.