Inquest conclusions by coroner area, England and Wales
The conclusions of inquests in each coroner area in England and Wales in the latest year, in the Ministry of Justice's ten groups from natural causes and accident to suicide, with the coroner regions and England and Wales.
Inquest conclusions recorded, England and Wales
39,118
2025
Verified against source, 29 October 2026, 11:51 UTCSource: Ministry of Justice. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Data table
85 rows
| Area | Total, all conclusions | Killed lawfully and killed unlawfully | Suicide | Drugs/Alcohol Related | Road Traffic Collision | Lack of care or self-neglect | Death from industrial diseases | Death by accident or mis-adventure | Deaths from natural causes | Open | All other conclusions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hampshire, Portsmouth and Southampton | 1,197 | 3 | 192 | 88 | 21 | 0 | 91 | 436 | 134 | 40 | 192 |
| Essex | 1,138 | 1 | 162 | 121 | 37 | 0 | 38 | 337 | 91 | 50 | 301 |
| Kent and Medway | 1,047 | 8 | 167 | 119 | 29 | 0 | 50 | 312 | 113 | 42 | 207 |
| Birmingham and Solihull | 984 | 2 | 118 | 145 | 23 | 1 | 27 | 318 | 37 | 47 | 266 |
| Devon, Plymouth and Torbay | 966 | 1 | 118 | 127 | 15 | 4 | 60 | 207 | 99 | 35 | 300 |
| Greater Lincolnshire | 932 | 1 | 111 | 137 | 51 | 0 | 51 | 292 | 55 | 11 | 223 |
| South Wales Central | 888 | 2 | 100 | 153 | 27 | 5 | 45 | 216 | 112 | 25 | 203 |
| Avon | 862 | 0 | 111 | 73 | 5 | 1 | 35 | 191 | 113 | 17 | 316 |
| Derby and Derbyshire | 857 | 1 | 84 | 130 | 19 | 0 | 47 | 214 | 24 | 19 | 319 |
| West Yorkshire (Eastern) | 839 | 1 | 120 | 91 | 12 | 0 | 66 | 274 | 114 | 15 | 146 |
| Cheshire | 816 | 3 | 105 | 48 | 20 | 0 | 52 | 153 | 108 | 23 | 304 |
| Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent | 788 | 6 | 105 | 67 | 21 | 0 | 45 | 39 | 132 | 11 | 362 |
| Manchester City | 784 | 2 | 49 | 85 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 159 | 70 | 17 | 390 |
| West Sussex, Brighton and Hove | 771 | 0 | 131 | 84 | 22 | 2 | 31 | 256 | 43 | 8 | 194 |
| Liverpool and the Wirral | 762 | 1 | 62 | 106 | 15 | 0 | 24 | 325 | 61 | 31 | 137 |
| Nottinghamshire | 741 | 3 | 84 | 124 | 19 | 1 | 123 | 147 | 52 | 18 | 170 |
| Manchester West | 707 | 0 | 73 | 70 | 12 | 1 | 19 | 118 | 62 | 20 | 332 |
| Surrey | 704 | 1 | 86 | 52 | 18 | 0 | 14 | 137 | 39 | 30 | 327 |
| Lancashire and Blackburn with Darwen | 702 | 1 | 118 | 96 | 23 | 0 | 25 | 92 | 40 | 0 | 307 |
| Manchester South | 698 | 0 | 54 | 49 | 5 | 4 | 23 | 196 | 55 | 11 | 301 |
| County Durham and Darlington | 689 | 0 | 86 | 72 | 14 | 1 | 35 | 92 | 194 | 8 | 187 |
| Black Country | 661 | 1 | 95 | 78 | 14 | 0 | 13 | 166 | 8 | 25 | 261 |
| Cambridgeshire and Peterborough | 657 | 0 | 73 | 54 | 18 | 0 | 20 | 152 | 75 | 2 | 263 |
| Norfolk | 648 | 0 | 48 | 76 | 20 | 1 | 18 | 118 | 80 | 15 | 272 |
| West Yorkshire (Western) | 637 | 2 | 97 | 113 | 15 | 1 | 20 | 136 | 51 | 2 | 200 |
| West London | 624 | 5 | 99 | 106 | 12 | 6 | 28 | 196 | 53 | 43 | 76 |
| North London | 590 | 4 | 60 | 99 | 10 | 1 | 21 | 130 | 79 | 32 | 154 |
| Inner North London | 568 | 0 | 73 | 93 | 2 | 0 | 14 | 109 | 82 | 33 | 162 |
| South Yorkshire (Western) | 568 | 0 | 83 | 75 | 11 | 0 | 58 | 84 | 68 | 5 | 184 |
| Gwent | 563 | 0 | 65 | 48 | 5 | 1 | 25 | 213 | 121 | 9 | 76 |
| Hertfordshire | 561 | 3 | 106 | 92 | 21 | 0 | 38 | 101 | 41 | 14 | 145 |
| Cornwall and Isles of Scilly | 558 | 1 | 73 | 62 | 17 | 3 | 23 | 218 | 21 | 22 | 118 |
| North Yorkshire and York | 550 | 0 | 98 | 61 | 22 | 0 | 21 | 96 | 22 | 5 | 225 |
| Manchester North | 530 | 2 | 48 | 28 | 5 | 1 | 25 | 57 | 82 | 13 | 269 |
| Berkshire | 522 | 0 | 69 | 54 | 9 | 0 | 15 | 91 | 56 | 2 | 226 |
| Dorset | 516 | 1 | 94 | 59 | 9 | 0 | 32 | 122 | 23 | 16 | 160 |
| Inner South London | 508 | 4 | 47 | 74 | 9 | 0 | 15 | 60 | 68 | 76 | 155 |
| Worcestershire | 498 | 1 | 50 | 20 | 17 | 1 | 16 | 141 | 92 | 7 | 153 |
| South Yorkshire (Eastern) | 469 | 0 | 54 | 69 | 19 | 1 | 17 | 99 | 45 | 2 | 163 |
| East London | 466 | 4 | 69 | 49 | 10 | 2 | 23 | 119 | 70 | 40 | 80 |
| Sefton, Knowsley and St Helens | 451 | 1 | 64 | 73 | 5 | 0 | 6 | 132 | 19 | 8 | 143 |
| Northamptonshire | 451 | 0 | 78 | 55 | 35 | 1 | 26 | 150 | 34 | 15 | 57 |
| Gloucestershire | 450 | 0 | 70 | 31 | 20 | 1 | 6 | 92 | 6 | 3 | 221 |
| Oxfordshire | 447 | 0 | 83 | 49 | 8 | 0 | 18 | 169 | 11 | 9 | 100 |
| Inner West London | 444 | 0 | 52 | 56 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 115 | 48 | 28 | 139 |
| Somerset | 443 | 1 | 85 | 44 | 19 | 0 | 15 | 119 | 13 | 4 | 143 |
| Teesside and Hartlepool | 436 | 2 | 51 | 85 | 14 | 0 | 27 | 93 | 11 | 9 | 144 |
| Warwickshire | 417 | 1 | 56 | 58 | 23 | 0 | 12 | 119 | 130 | 9 | 9 |
| Newcastle and North Tyneside | 416 | 1 | 55 | 53 | 16 | 0 | 28 | 76 | 20 | 7 | 160 |
| Leicester City and South Leicestershire | 406 | 2 | 60 | 32 | 6 | 0 | 15 | 99 | 20 | 0 | 172 |
| East Riding and Hull | 388 | 2 | 68 | 63 | 12 | 0 | 19 | 93 | 37 | 15 | 79 |
| Cumbria | 385 | 5 | 73 | 59 | 13 | 4 | 14 | 98 | 29 | 1 | 89 |
| South London | 362 | 2 | 52 | 47 | 3 | 0 | 24 | 46 | 81 | 33 | 74 |
| North Wales (East and Central) | 362 | 0 | 39 | 36 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 164 | 40 | 10 | 61 |
| Wiltshire and Swindon | 347 | 2 | 94 | 41 | 14 | 0 | 21 | 103 | 5 | 0 | 67 |
| East Sussex | 332 | 0 | 93 | 45 | 16 | 0 | 15 | 74 | 15 | 16 | 58 |
| Suffolk | 322 | 0 | 37 | 19 | 5 | 0 | 25 | 30 | 20 | 10 | 176 |
| Swansea and Neath Port Talbot | 314 | 0 | 36 | 73 | 9 | 0 | 10 | 103 | 20 | 4 | 59 |
| Blackpool and the Fylde | 306 | 2 | 29 | 31 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 57 | 80 | 0 | 96 |
| Buckinghamshire | 302 | 1 | 47 | 18 | 10 | 0 | 19 | 79 | 14 | 10 | 104 |
| Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin | 293 | 0 | 61 | 32 | 24 | 0 | 11 | 96 | 13 | 0 | 56 |
| Isle of Wight | 277 | 1 | 17 | 37 | 11 | 0 | 10 | 97 | 26 | 8 | 70 |
| Northumberland | 263 | 0 | 28 | 26 | 6 | 0 | 19 | 41 | 8 | 1 | 134 |
| Coventry | 260 | 1 | 40 | 50 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 85 | 25 | 2 | 47 |
| Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire | 244 | 1 | 52 | 27 | 6 | 0 | 7 | 130 | 14 | 2 | 5 |
| Bedfordshire and Luton | 232 | 0 | 48 | 32 | 8 | 0 | 15 | 20 | 12 | 10 | 87 |
| Sunderland | 205 | 0 | 36 | 32 | 2 | 0 | 29 | 32 | 10 | 1 | 63 |
| Gateshead and South Tyneside | 204 | 0 | 26 | 36 | 4 | 0 | 18 | 58 | 30 | 1 | 31 |
| North West Wales | 204 | 0 | 25 | 22 | 4 | 0 | 7 | 82 | 22 | 4 | 38 |
| Rutland and North Leicestershire | 192 | 0 | 44 | 17 | 12 | 0 | 15 | 74 | 9 | 1 | 20 |
| Herefordshire | 140 | 2 | 20 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 7 | 40 | 2 | 2 | 53 |
| Milton Keynes | 107 | 3 | 23 | 14 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 27 | 10 | 3 | 18 |
| City of London | 106 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 1 | 89 |
| Ceredigion | 44 | 0 | 16 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 11 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| North East | 2,213 | 3 | 282 | 304 | 56 | 1 | 156 | 392 | 273 | 27 | 719 |
| North West | 6,141 | 17 | 675 | 645 | 102 | 11 | 206 | 1,387 | 606 | 124 | 2,368 |
| East Midlands | 3,579 | 7 | 461 | 495 | 142 | 2 | 277 | 976 | 194 | 64 | 961 |
| West Midlands | 4,041 | 14 | 545 | 458 | 133 | 2 | 136 | 1,004 | 439 | 103 | 1,207 |
| Eastern | 3,558 | 4 | 474 | 394 | 109 | 1 | 154 | 758 | 319 | 101 | 1,244 |
| London | 3,668 | 19 | 455 | 526 | 46 | 9 | 131 | 776 | 491 | 286 | 929 |
| South East | 5,706 | 17 | 908 | 560 | 147 | 2 | 269 | 1,678 | 461 | 168 | 1,496 |
| South West | 4,142 | 6 | 645 | 437 | 99 | 9 | 192 | 1,052 | 280 | 97 | 1,325 |
| Wales | 2,619 | 3 | 333 | 368 | 53 | 7 | 106 | 919 | 329 | 59 | 442 |
| Yorkshire and the Humber | 3,451 | 5 | 520 | 472 | 91 | 2 | 201 | 782 | 337 | 44 | 997 |
| ENGLAND and WALES | 39,118 | 95 | 5,298 | 4,659 | 978 | 46 | 1,828 | 9,724 | 3,729 | 1,073 | 11,688 |
Source and licence
- Publisher
- Ministry of Justice
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Verification
Verified against source, 29 October 2026, 11:51 UTC Run at 29 October 2026, 11:51 UTC; 935 of 935 figures matched the live source.
| Result | Check | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| Pass | Provenance recorded | Ministry of Justice; Open Government Licence v3.0; retrieved 2026-10-29T11:48:00Z; 2 raw file(s) |
| Pass | Raw files match recorded SHA-256 | 2 of 2 files intact |
| Pass | Re-parsing raw files reproduces figures | 935 of 935 figures and the headline reproduced |
| Pass | Figures are finite numbers | 935 figures, 0 invalid |
| Pass | Live source matches every figure | 935 of 935 figures match exactly after downloading 2 source file(s) again (2 byte-identical); the headline matches |
| Pass | GOV.UK table is current | latest period 2025 ended 302 days before retrieval (limit 560), from Coroners statistics 2025: England and Wales (statistical tables) |
| Pass | The ten groups add up to all conclusions | in 85 of 85 cases the conclusion groups sum to the whole within 0 (85 exactly) |
| Pass | The coroner areas add up to their regions and England and Wales | in 121 of 121 cases the areas and the regions sum to the whole within 0 (121 exactly) |
| Pass | The release's CSV agrees, area by area | 814 of 814 figures agree with coroners-statistics-2025-csvs/coroners-statistics-2025-csv-inc-less-inv.csv in https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6ad615e30f7b53973e026902/coroners-statistics-2025-csvs.zip |
| Pass | Source page answers | https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/coroners-and-burials-statistics – HTTP 200 |
Notes
- Accredited official statistics from the returns each coroner area makes to the Ministry of Justice for the calendar year. Coroner areas and their regions are the MoJ's own, by its names: Wales is one region, and the regions are not the ONS's, so no figure is placed in a council or region of the hub's.
- Coroner areas merge from time to time: Greater Lincolnshire, Devon, Plymouth and Torbay, and Northumberland each from two areas on 1 April 2024, and Kent and Medway from four on 1 July 2025. An area that did not exist in a year shows no figure for it.
- The MoJ groups the conclusions coroners record: all other conclusions are want of attention at birth, self-induced abortion, stillbirth, disasters and unclassified conclusions. A narrative conclusion is counted under the group it most resembles.
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