Elective home education rate by council, England

Official statistics in development

Children in elective home education on the autumn census day per 100 children aged 5 to 16 in each of England's 153 councils with education duties, with the regions and England, from the DfE.

England

1.5%

2025/26 autumn term

Verified against source, 31 October 2026, 11:21 UTC

Children in elective home education per 100 aged 5 to 16

Source: Department for Education. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

In order

Ranked by the hub Children in elective home education per 100 aged 5 to 16

Every place, the highest figure first. The number before each is the hub's own position in the list, not the publisher's: equal figures share one, marked =.

1Isle of Wight4.1%
2Blackpool3.1%
=3Cornwall2.9%
=3Somerset2.9%
5Torbay2.8%
=6Devon2.7%
=6East Sussex2.7%
8Darlington2.6%
=9Doncaster2.5%
=9Southend-on-Sea2.5%
11Medway2.4%
12Barnsley, its area before 1 April 20252.3%
=13Gloucestershire2.1%
=13Norfolk2.1%
=15Calderdale2.0%
=15Peterborough2.0%
=15Plymouth2.0%
=15Telford and Wrekin2.0%
=19County Durham1.9%
=19Kent1.9%
=19Kingston upon Hull, City of1.9%
=19Wakefield1.9%
=23Cambridgeshire1.8%
=23Derbyshire1.8%
=23Dorset1.8%
=23Dudley1.8%
=23Essex1.8%
=23Hartlepool1.8%
=23North East Lincolnshire1.8%
=23North Northamptonshire1.8%
=23Redcar and Cleveland1.8%
=23Rotherham1.8%
=23Southampton1.8%
=23St. Helens1.8%
=35Bedford1.7%
=35Cumberland1.7%
=35Derby1.7%
=35East Riding of Yorkshire1.7%
=35Herefordshire, County of1.7%
=35North Lincolnshire1.7%
=35North Yorkshire1.7%
=35Nottinghamshire1.7%
=35Shropshire1.7%
=35Thurrock1.7%
=35Warwickshire1.7%
=35West Sussex1.7%
=47Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole1.6%
=47Central Bedfordshire1.6%
=47Greenwich1.6%
=47Lancashire1.6%
=47Lincolnshire1.6%
=47South Tyneside1.6%
=47Suffolk1.6%
=47West Northamptonshire1.6%
=55Brighton and Hove1.5%
=55Nottingham1.5%
=55Sandwell1.5%
=55Stockton-on-Tees1.5%
=55Stoke-on-Trent1.5%
=55Sunderland1.5%
=55Wiltshire1.5%
=55Worcestershire1.5%
=63Birmingham1.4%
=63Blackburn with Darwen1.4%
=63Bradford1.4%
=63Hampshire1.4%
=63Islington1.4%
=63Leicester1.4%
=63Liverpool1.4%
=63Reading1.4%
=63Slough1.4%
=63South Gloucestershire1.4%
=63Staffordshire1.4%
=63Walsall1.4%
=63Wigan1.4%
=76Barking and Dagenham1.3%
=76Bolton1.3%
=76Buckinghamshire1.3%
=76Cheshire East1.3%
=76Cheshire West and Chester1.3%
=76Gateshead1.3%
=76Halton1.3%
=76Isles of Scilly1.3%
=76Kirklees1.3%
=76Knowsley1.3%
=76Leeds1.3%
=76North Somerset1.3%
=76Northumberland1.3%
=76Oxfordshire1.3%
=76Rochdale1.3%
=76Solihull1.3%
=76Surrey1.3%
=76Swindon1.3%
=76Westmorland and Furness1.3%
=76Wolverhampton1.3%
=96Bracknell Forest1.2%
=96Bristol, City of1.2%
=96Camden1.2%
=96Croydon1.2%
=96Ealing1.2%
=96Havering1.2%
=96Leicestershire1.2%
=96Lewisham1.2%
=96Middlesbrough1.2%
=96Milton Keynes1.2%
=96Newcastle upon Tyne1.2%
=96Windsor and Maidenhead1.2%
=108Bexley1.1%
=108Bury1.1%
=108Coventry1.1%
=108Enfield1.1%
=108Hounslow1.1%
=108Newham1.1%
=108Salford1.1%
=108Sefton1.1%
=108Stockport1.1%
=108Tameside1.1%
=108Waltham Forest1.1%
=108West Berkshire1.1%
=108Wirral1.1%
=108York1.1%
=122Bath and North East Somerset1.0%
=122Bromley1.0%
=122Hammersmith and Fulham1.0%
=122Hertfordshire1.0%
=122Hillingdon1.0%
=122Kingston upon Thames1.0%
=122Manchester1.0%
=122Sheffield, its area before 1 April 20251.0%
=122Southwark1.0%
=122Warrington1.0%
=122Westminster1.0%
=122Wokingham1.0%
=134Brent0.9%
=134Haringey0.9%
=134Luton0.9%
=134North Tyneside0.9%
=134Oldham0.9%
=134Portsmouth0.9%
=134Tower Hamlets0.9%
=141Harrow0.8%
=141Lambeth0.8%
=141Rutland0.8%
=141Sutton0.8%
=145Kensington and Chelsea0.7%
=145Merton0.7%
=145Redbridge0.7%
=148Barnet0.6%
=148Hackney0.6%
=148Trafford0.6%
151Richmond upon Thames0.5%

No figure published for Barnsley (given under its old code, E08000016), City of London (fewer than 5 (low): the DfE's ‘count that rounds to 0, but is not 0’, its counts rounded to 10), Sheffield (given under its old code, E08000019), Wandsworth (fewer than 5 (low): the DfE's ‘count that rounds to 0, but is not 0’, its counts rounded to 10).

Data table

162 rows

Area	Children in elective home education per 100 aged 5 to 16
Isle of Wight E06000046	4.1%
Blackpool E06000009	3.1%
Cornwall E06000052	2.9%
Somerset E06000066	2.9%
Torbay E06000027	2.8%
Devon E10000008	2.7%
East Sussex E10000011	2.7%
Darlington E06000005	2.6%
Southend-on-Sea E06000033	2.5%
Doncaster E08000017	2.5%
Medway E06000035	2.4%
Barnsley E08000016 its area before 1 April 2025	2.3%
Gloucestershire E10000013	2.1%
Norfolk E10000020	2.1%
Telford and Wrekin E06000020	2.0%
Plymouth E06000026	2.0%
Peterborough E06000031	2.0%
Calderdale E08000033	2.0%
Kingston upon Hull, City of E06000010	1.9%
County Durham E06000047	1.9%
Wakefield E08000036	1.9%
Kent E10000016	1.9%
Hartlepool E06000001	1.8%
Redcar and Cleveland E06000003	1.8%
North East Lincolnshire E06000012	1.8%
Southampton E06000045	1.8%
Dorset E06000059	1.8%
North Northamptonshire E06000061	1.8%
St. Helens E08000013	1.8%
Rotherham E08000018	1.8%
Dudley E08000027	1.8%
Cambridgeshire E10000003	1.8%
Derbyshire E10000007	1.8%
Essex E10000012	1.8%
East Riding of Yorkshire E06000011	1.7%
North Lincolnshire E06000013	1.7%
Derby E06000015	1.7%
Herefordshire, County of E06000019	1.7%
Thurrock E06000034	1.7%
Shropshire E06000051	1.7%
Bedford E06000055	1.7%
Cumberland E06000063	1.7%
North Yorkshire E06000065	1.7%
Nottinghamshire E10000024	1.7%
Warwickshire E10000031	1.7%
West Sussex E10000032	1.7%
Central Bedfordshire E06000056	1.6%
Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole E06000058	1.6%
West Northamptonshire E06000062	1.6%
South Tyneside E08000023	1.6%
Greenwich E09000011	1.6%
Lancashire E10000017	1.6%
Lincolnshire E10000019	1.6%
Suffolk E10000029	1.6%
Stockton-on-Tees E06000004	1.5%
Nottingham E06000018	1.5%
Stoke-on-Trent E06000021	1.5%
Brighton and Hove E06000043	1.5%
Wiltshire E06000054	1.5%
Sunderland E08000024	1.5%
Sandwell E08000028	1.5%
Worcestershire E10000034	1.5%
Blackburn with Darwen E06000008	1.4%
Leicester E06000016	1.4%
South Gloucestershire E06000025	1.4%
Reading E06000038	1.4%
Slough E06000039	1.4%
Wigan E08000010	1.4%
Liverpool E08000012	1.4%
Birmingham E08000025	1.4%
Walsall E08000030	1.4%
Bradford E08000032	1.4%
Islington E09000019	1.4%
Hampshire E10000014	1.4%
Staffordshire E10000028	1.4%
Halton E06000006	1.3%
North Somerset E06000024	1.3%
Swindon E06000030	1.3%
Cheshire East E06000049	1.3%
Cheshire West and Chester E06000050	1.3%
Isles of Scilly E06000053	1.3%
Northumberland E06000057	1.3%
Buckinghamshire E06000060	1.3%
Westmorland and Furness E06000064	1.3%
Bolton E08000001	1.3%
Rochdale E08000005	1.3%
Knowsley E08000011	1.3%
Solihull E08000029	1.3%
Wolverhampton E08000031	1.3%
Kirklees E08000034	1.3%
Leeds E08000035	1.3%
Gateshead E08000037	1.3%
Barking and Dagenham E09000002	1.3%
Oxfordshire E10000025	1.3%
Surrey E10000030	1.3%
Middlesbrough E06000002	1.2%
Bristol, City of E06000023	1.2%
Bracknell Forest E06000036	1.2%
Windsor and Maidenhead E06000040	1.2%
Milton Keynes E06000042	1.2%
Newcastle upon Tyne E08000021	1.2%
Camden E09000007	1.2%
Croydon E09000008	1.2%
Ealing E09000009	1.2%
Havering E09000016	1.2%
Lewisham E09000023	1.2%
Leicestershire E10000018	1.2%
York E06000014	1.1%
West Berkshire E06000037	1.1%
Bury E08000002	1.1%
Salford E08000006	1.1%
Stockport E08000007	1.1%
Tameside E08000008	1.1%
Sefton E08000014	1.1%
Wirral E08000015	1.1%
Coventry E08000026	1.1%
Bexley E09000004	1.1%
Enfield E09000010	1.1%
Hounslow E09000018	1.1%
Newham E09000025	1.1%
Waltham Forest E09000031	1.1%
Warrington E06000007	1.0%
Bath and North East Somerset E06000022	1.0%
Wokingham E06000041	1.0%
Manchester E08000003	1.0%
Sheffield E08000019 its area before 1 April 2025	1.0%
Bromley E09000006	1.0%
Hammersmith and Fulham E09000013	1.0%
Hillingdon E09000017	1.0%
Kingston upon Thames E09000021	1.0%
Southwark E09000028	1.0%
Westminster E09000033	1.0%
Hertfordshire E10000015	1.0%
Luton E06000032	0.9%
Portsmouth E06000044	0.9%
Oldham E08000004	0.9%
North Tyneside E08000022	0.9%
Brent E09000005	0.9%
Haringey E09000014	0.9%
Tower Hamlets E09000030	0.9%
Rutland E06000017	0.8%
Harrow E09000015	0.8%
Lambeth E09000022	0.8%
Sutton E09000029	0.8%
Kensington and Chelsea E09000020	0.7%
Merton E09000024	0.7%
Redbridge E09000026	0.7%
Trafford E08000009	0.6%
Barnet E09000003	0.6%
Hackney E09000012	0.6%
Richmond upon Thames E09000027	0.5%
City of London E09000001	fewer than 5 (low): the DfE's ‘count that rounds to 0, but is not 0’, its counts rounded to 10
Wandsworth E09000032	fewer than 5 (low): the DfE's ‘count that rounds to 0, but is not 0’, its counts rounded to 10
Barnsley E08000038	given for its area before 1 April 2025, under E08000016
Sheffield E08000039	given for its area before 1 April 2025, under E08000019
North East	1.5%
North West	1.3%
Yorkshire and The Humber	1.6%
East Midlands	1.6%
West Midlands	1.5%
East of England	1.6%
South East	1.6%
South West	2.0%
England	1.5%

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Children in elective home education per 100 aged 5 to 16 · 130 areas, each shaded by the fifth of the areas its figure falls in

0.5% to 1.0%
1.0% to 1.2%
1.2% to 1.4%
1.4% to 1.7%
1.7% to 4.1%

Boundaries: Council boundaries, May 2026, from the geography spine. Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

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Notes

Children of compulsory school age the council knows are educated at home by their parents' choice on the census day in October, as local authorities report them. Collecting these figures became mandatory in the autumn of 2024, and the DfE publishes them as official statistics in development.
The DfE's methodology: “The rates of EHE are calculated using ONS mid-year population estimates for children aged 5 to 16 years in England as the denominator.” Rates are rounded to one decimal place.
The DfE gives no population beside these rates, so the hub cannot recompute them: they are checked by the DfE's CSV of the same version giving every figure exactly as its API does (decision 48.6).
The DfE gives these figures for England's 153 councils with education and children's services duties (its unitary, metropolitan and London councils and its 21 counties), not for districts.
The DfE gives Barnsley and Sheffield under the codes they had before part of Barnsley moved into Sheffield on the 1st of April 2025 (E08000016 and E08000019), and they are shown so.
The DfE gives Inner and Outer London, not London, so London's figure is not shown.