Blue Badges held, England
Valid Blue Badges held by disabled people and organisations in England at 31 March each year since 1997, from the Department for Transport's Blue Badge scheme statistics.
Valid Blue Badges held
3,065,000
31 Mar 2025 · 5.2% of the population
Verified against source, 9 November 2026, 15:02 UTC- Blue Badges held, 1997 to 2009
- Blue Badges held, 2009 to 2018
- Blue Badges held, from 2019
Source: Department for Transport. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Data table
29 periods, newest first
| Period | Blue Badges held, 1997 to 2009 | Blue Badges held, 2009 to 2018 | Blue Badges held, from 2019 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 31 Mar 2025 | – | – | 3,065,000 |
| 31 Mar 2024 | – | – | 2,837,000 |
| 31 Mar 2023 | – | – | 2,574,000 |
| 31 Mar 2022 | – | – | 2,436,000 |
| 31 Mar 2021 | – | – | 2,352,000 |
| 31 Mar 2020 | – | – | 2,444,000 |
| 31 Mar 2019 | – | – | 2,294,000 |
| 31 Mar 2018 | – | 2,354,000 | – |
| 31 Mar 2017 | – | 2,382,000 | – |
| 31 Mar 2016 | – | 2,378,000 | – |
| 31 Mar 2015 | – | 2,394,000 | – |
| 31 Mar 2014 | – | 2,465,000 | – |
| 31 Mar 2013 | – | 2,571,000 | – |
| 31 Mar 2012 | – | 2,589,000 | – |
| 31 Mar 2011 | – | 2,636,000 | – |
| 31 Mar 2010 | – | 2,629,000 | – |
| 31 Mar 2009 | 2,475,000 | 2,575,000 | – |
| 31 Mar 2008 | 2,398,000 | – | – |
| 31 Mar 2007 | 2,307,000 | – | – |
| 31 Mar 2006 | 2,258,000 | – | – |
| 31 Mar 2005 | 2,092,000 | – | – |
| 31 Mar 2004 | 2,054,000 | – | – |
| 31 Mar 2003 | 2,030,000 | – | – |
| 31 Mar 2002 | 2,019,000 | – | – |
| 31 Mar 2001 | 1,925,000 | – | – |
| 31 Mar 2000 | 1,854,000 | – | – |
| 31 Mar 1999 | 1,821,000 | – | – |
| 31 Mar 1998 | 1,713,000 | – | – |
| 31 Mar 1997 | 1,636,000 | – | – |
Source and licence
- Publisher
- Department for Transport
- Check it yourself
- https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/blue-badge-scheme-statistics-data-tables-dis
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0 – Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Retrieved
- 9 November 2026, 14:49 UTC
- Raw files fetched
- https://www.gov.uk/api/content/government/statistical-data-sets/blue-badge-scheme-statistics-data-tables-disSHA-256 43915f2a233a9aa4bf1287efa100a32b10da130a80c55ae3593b2e14281a2738 · 4,186 bytes
- https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/69b966eb635612b767a4664a/dis0101.odsSHA-256 05fcd683a1244830352d3da75bbc6a3640102b23b91d9ccce247d5b6d3fedeb3 · 8,440 bytes
Verification
Verified against source, 9 November 2026, 15:02 UTC Run at 9 November 2026, 15:02 UTC; 87 of 87 figures matched the live source.
| Result | Check | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| Pass | Provenance recorded | Department for Transport; Open Government Licence v3.0; retrieved 2026-11-09T14:49:49Z; 2 raw file(s) |
| Pass | Raw files match recorded SHA-256 | 2 of 2 files intact |
| Pass | Re-parsing raw files reproduces figures | 87 of 87 figures and the headline reproduced; the meta's accreditation and population_share match |
| Pass | Figures are finite numbers | 87 figures, 0 invalid |
| Pass | Live source matches every figure | 87 of 87 figures match exactly after downloading 2 source file(s) again (2 byte-identical); the headline matches; the meta's accreditation and population_share match |
| Pass | GOV.UK table is current | latest period 2025-03-31 ended 588 days before retrieval (limit 760), from Valid Blue Badges held by disabled people by category with population measures in England |
| Pass | DIS0104 gives England's badges held | 1 of 1 figures match DIS0104_i's All England row, https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/69b966fba564b64fbe35ab44/dis0104.ods |
| Pass | The release's commentary agrees | 1 of 1 figures the commentary https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/blue-badge-scheme-statistics-april-2024-to-march-2025/blue-badge-scheme-statistics-april-2024-to-march-2025 states match, each rounded half up as it rounds them |
| Pass | The commentary gives the share of the population | the commentary says 5.2% of England's population held a badge on 31 March 2025; the meta gives 5.2% for 2025-03-31 |
| Pass | The badges held are their three kinds | 30 of 30 cases of DIS0101's years give badges held without and subject to further assessment and by organisations that add up to all badges held, within the 2,000 that four figures rounded to the thousand allow within 2 (16 exactly) |
| Pass | The share of the population is the badges over the population | 30 of 30 cases of DIS0101's years give holders as a share of the population that is its badges over its population, within the 0.05 points of a figure given to one place within 0.06 (0 exactly) |
| Pass | Source page answers | https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/blue-badge-scheme-statistics-data-tables-dis – HTTP 200 |
Notes
- Valid Blue Badges held at 31 March each year in England, in thousands as DfT rounds them, by people who qualify without further assessment, people who qualify subject to further assessment by their council, and organisations. DfT marks breaks in the series in 2009 and 2019, when the way badges were recorded changed: it says the badges held from the year ending March 2019 cannot be compared with earlier years, so each run of years is a line of its own. Holders as a share of England's population are in the record's JSON.
- DfT publishes these as accredited official statistics.