Where no Youth Zone shows
This is a map, not a Youth Zone, and nobody here can let you in. Find the nearest one under Find a Youth Zone and check its own website for opening times and what is on before you go.
In 134 of the 152 counties and unitary authorities of England, neither record shows a Youth Zone. 6,498,957 young people aged 8 to 18 live in them. Before either sentence is quoted anywhere, read the next one.
It does not mean young people there have nowhere to go. Youth clubs, uniformed groups, sports clubs and council youth services are all there, and neither record here would show them; a Youth Zone also draws young people from beyond its own council. What it means is narrow: no open Youth Zone on OnSide’s pages gives an address there, and no Youth Zone charity records the area as one it works in.
How presence was counted
- An address — a Youth Zone on OnSide’s pages gives one in the area: 16 areas.
- The register — a Youth Zone charity tells the Charity Commission it operates there: 18 areas.
Either one counts. A charity that records a whole region or country is not counted as present in any one area of it, because a charity that says it works everywhere says nothing about a particular place.
Every area where neither record shows a Youth Zone
Largest number of young people aged 8 to 18 first. Spending is what the council reported for 2024-25 under the headings named on the front page; a council reporting little here may pay for the same work from another line, so this shows the line, not the service.
| Area | Young people aged 8 to 18 | Council spending on services for young people, 2024-25 | Real-terms change since 2015-16 | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kent | 210,331 | £2.4m | -78.1% | |
| Essex | 192,636 | £5.8m | -16.8% | |
| Birmingham | 182,076 | £1.3m | -83.0% | |
| Hampshire | 176,630 | £2.6m | -58.8% | |
| Hertfordshire | 165,827 | £9.2m | -56.5% | |
| Surrey | 164,708 | £12.8m | -42.7% | |
| West Sussex | 109,847 | £2.0m | -64.5% | |
| Norfolk | 105,985 | £2.4m | -24.9% | |
| Staffordshire | 105,857 | £2.2m | -71.3% | |
| Leeds | 105,275 | £3.7m | -22.3% | |
| Nottinghamshire | 101,784 | £11.5m | -8.2% | |
| Derbyshire | 95,633 | £8.1m | -43.4% | |
| Devon | 94,982 | £6.9m | +28.5% | |
| Oxfordshire | 93,860 | £5.1m | -51.9% | |
| Suffolk | 92,874 | £6.2m | +44.0% | |
| Lincolnshire | 92,377 | £14.3m | +40.9% | |
| Leicestershire | 90,170 | £4.6m | -35.1% | |
| Bradford | 88,675 | £4.4m | -47.5% | |
| Cambridgeshire | 84,396 | £1.0m | -86.0% | |
| Gloucestershire | 80,744 | £5.6m | -20.8% | |
| Buckinghamshire | 77,797 | £371,864 | -94.8% | |
| Worcestershire | 75,022 | £898,042 | -66.7% | |
| Warwickshire | 74,439 | £2.0m | -34.0% | |
| North Yorkshire | 73,730 | £6.9m | +18.8% | |
| Sheffield | 71,361 | £6.7m | -24.1% | |
| Somerset | 70,581 | £163,201 | -92.8% | |
| Cornwall | 67,441 | £7.0m | -15.2% | |
| East Sussex | 65,887 | £1.9m | -49.2% | |
| Wiltshire | 65,668 | £3.8m | -14.7% | |
| County Durham | 64,215 | £1.4m | -60.2% | |
| Kirklees | 61,947 | £2.1m | -76.6% | |
| Liverpool | 57,827 | £2.6m | -52.2% | |
| West Northamptonshire | 57,037 | £712,727 | not comparable | |
| Leicester | 56,310 | £2.0m | -51.3% | |
| Sandwell | 52,900 | £2.2m | -33.5% | |
| Enfield | 51,619 | £1.5m | -70.2% | |
| Ealing | 50,501 | £2.4m | -10.9% | |
| Newham | 50,466 | £6.0m | +462.9% | |
| North Northamptonshire | 49,356 | £585,083 | not comparable | |
| Cheshire East | 49,078 | £2.4m | -9.5% | |
| Coventry | 48,932 | £1.4m | -57.5% | |
| Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole | 46,561 | £2.6m | not comparable | |
| Redbridge | 46,099 | £1.6m | -33.1% | |
| Brent | 45,497 | £2.2m | -25.7% | |
| Wakefield | 44,399 | £2.6m | -56.2% | |
| Dorset | 44,399 | £1.7m | not comparable | |
| Nottingham | 44,270 | £353,307 | -82.3% | |
| Bromley | 44,183 | £911,729 | +17.2% | |
| Cheshire West and Chester | 43,848 | £1.8m | +18.3% | |
| Hillingdon | 42,967 | £3.5m | +67.5% | |
| Milton Keynes | 42,919 | £1.5m | -15.7% | |
| Dudley | 42,181 | £907,848 | -69.7% | |
| Walsall | 41,931 | £534,166 | -92.9% | |
| Hounslow | 39,976 | £1.6m | -60.3% | |
| East Riding of Yorkshire | 39,913 | £1.4m | -48.3% | |
| Doncaster | 39,481 | £4.9m | +23.3% | |
| Medway | 38,776 | £5.2m | +214.0% | |
| Greenwich | 38,639 | £2.9m | -21.5% | |
| Tower Hamlets | 38,315 | £4.5m | -21.4% | |
| Shropshire | 38,127 | £237,022 | -92.1% | |
| Central Bedfordshire | 37,832 | £2.8m | -34.8% | |
| Stockport | 37,794 | £1.6m | -48.4% | |
| Lewisham | 37,700 | £2.5m | -34.9% | |
| Northumberland | 37,513 | £105,127 | -96.8% | |
| Newcastle upon Tyne | 37,294 | £1.5m | -50.0% | |
| Derby | 36,653 | £1.9m | +37.0% | |
| South Gloucestershire | 36,286 | £1.3m | -52.4% | |
| Kingston upon Hull, City of | 36,153 | £7.2m | +59.5% | |
| Waltham Forest | 36,025 | £3.7m | +62.1% | |
| Luton | 35,870 | £1.1m | -44.2% | |
| Harrow | 35,861 | £1.7m | -60.3% | |
| Stoke-on-Trent | 35,750 | £427,295 | -86.9% | |
| Rotherham | 35,261 | £2.6m | -56.0% | |
| Southwark | 34,987 | £3.0m | -21.9% | |
| Bexley | 34,828 | £849,159 | -70.2% | |
| Havering | 34,613 | £1.1m | -48.0% | |
| Trafford | 34,451 | £1.4m | +379.7% | |
| Sunderland | 34,265 | £2.6m | -48.0% | |
| Lambeth | 33,583 | £3.2m | -49.1% | |
| Haringey | 33,473 | £3.3m | +116.0% | |
| Rochdale | 33,388 | £840,758 | -69.3% | |
| Hackney | 33,156 | £4.0m | -52.4% | |
| Sefton | 33,061 | £1.1m | -41.8% | |
| Wandsworth | 32,979 | – | not comparable | |
| Plymouth | 32,940 | £1.1m | -85.9% | |
| Peterborough | 32,455 | £1.4m | -16.2% | |
| Brighton and Hove | 31,776 | £1.6m | -41.1% | |
| Tameside | 31,371 | £4.0m | +191.9% | |
| Swindon | 31,277 | £319,071 | -74.8% | |
| Southampton | 30,852 | £1.7m | +576.4% | |
| Sutton | 29,995 | £244,890 | -87.7% | |
| Solihull | 29,359 | £323,586 | -86.7% | |
| Calderdale | 28,508 | £732,983 | -84.1% | |
| Merton | 27,617 | £2.8m | -8.3% | |
| Bury | 27,508 | £1.5m | +9.1% | |
| Stockton-on-Tees | 27,314 | £564,280 | -86.9% | |
| Richmond upon Thames | 27,284 | £4.4m | +62.0% | |
| North Somerset | 27,167 | £938,262 | -19.6% | |
| Slough | 26,355 | £0 | not comparable | |
| Wokingham | 26,256 | £117,808 | -66.5% | |
| Thurrock | 26,209 | £188,761 | -92.9% | |
| Portsmouth | 26,068 | £1.6m | +16.0% | |
| Telford and Wrekin | 25,926 | £1.7m | -48.3% | |
| North Tyneside | 25,811 | £1.6m | -9.2% | |
| Bedford | 25,381 | £1.5m | +225.6% | |
| Bath and North East Somerset | 24,304 | £568,918 | -67.6% | |
| Camden | 23,892 | £5.7m | -21.4% | |
| York | 23,884 | £350,177 | -84.8% | |
| Gateshead | 23,879 | £715,088 | -82.9% | |
| Southend-on-Sea | 23,156 | £3.4m | +46.0% | |
| St. Helens | 22,728 | £784,264 | -43.8% | |
| West Berkshire | 22,682 | £196,939 | -84.2% | |
| Kingston upon Thames | 22,497 | £3.9m | +37.1% | |
| Windsor and Maidenhead | 22,319 | £537,708 | -67.3% | |
| Reading | 22,176 | £454,283 | -79.3% | |
| Islington | 21,829 | £4.3m | -37.6% | |
| Herefordshire, County of | 21,689 | £0 | -100.0% | |
| North Lincolnshire | 21,688 | £2.3m | +47.8% | |
| Middlesbrough | 20,462 | – | not comparable | |
| Knowsley | 20,008 | £1.2m | -33.4% | |
| Westminster | 19,936 | £815,979 | -77.4% | |
| South Tyneside | 18,247 | £1.1m | -69.0% | |
| Bracknell Forest | 17,451 | £1.5m | -20.7% | |
| Halton | 17,267 | £0 | -100.0% | |
| Redcar and Cleveland | 17,254 | £2.1m | -37.9% | |
| Blackpool | 17,185 | £2.0m | +127.9% | |
| Torbay | 16,213 | £1.3m | +14.4% | |
| Isle of Wight | 15,275 | £871,776 | -20.5% | |
| Kensington and Chelsea | 14,380 | £1.6m | -74.6% | |
| Darlington | 14,184 | £906,657 | -36.8% | |
| Hartlepool | 12,535 | £1.3m | -10.8% | |
| Rutland | 5,796 | £327,338 | -35.5% | |
| City of London | 402 | £220,123 | -28.7% | |
| Isles of Scilly | 172 | £20,513 | -88.0% |
What else to know
- The count of young people aged 8 to 18 is from census day, 21 March 2021. The spending is from 2024-25. Both are the latest there are.
- Some councils cannot be compared across the years. Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole and Dorset were redrawn in 2019, and North and West Northamptonshire were one county until 2021. Their spending is in the totals for England, but no change is shown for them alone.
- Area figures add up to slightly more or less than the national figure (7,362,584 against 7,756,792), because the statistics office adjusts small numbers to protect people’s privacy.