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Local road condition (England)
Part of the Infrastructure domain. Percentage of local roads in England assessed as requiring maintenance consideration, indicating the backlog of deferred infrastructure investment.
Latest data
Latest reading
To Mar 2025
A higher reading is treated as worse for this indicator.
Score composition
Stress score
Blended from three components: (60% weight), trend (30% weight) and volatility (10% weight). Full formula on the methodology page.
Level · 60% weight
Bounds: scored against fixed best/worst limits, used until a metric has about eight years of verified data to rank against.
Trend · 30% weight
Neutral: the latest reading matches the one before it, so no change is measured.
Volatility · 10% weight
50Provisional: fewer than four historical readings are available, so this defaults to a mid range score rather than a measured figure.
Data confidence and provenance
Confidence and source
How much weight to put on the reading, the mean data-confidence across the component metrics (source quality, recency and completeness).
Source
Road conditions in England
- Update frequency
- Annual
- Reliability
- medium
Provenance
- Provider
- DfT
- Series ID
- local roads needing maintenance (unclassified), England
- Frequency
- annual
- Accessed
- 13 June 2026
Known weakness
England-only; local authority survey response rates and road assessment methodologies are not fully standardised, and the 'maintenance consideration' threshold is a broad indicator rather than a precise engineering standard.
Notes
Verified official value from DfT (local roads needing maintenance (unclassified), England), accessed 2026-06-13.
Historical values
History
| Period | Value | Relative |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17 |