Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask His Majesty's Government what is the ratio of electric vehicle charging points in England for rural areas compared to urban areas.

The information requested is held by the Department for public electric vehicle charging devices.

As of 1 April 2025, there were 10,239 public electric vehicle charging devices in rural locations and 55,543 public electric vehicle charging devices in urban locations in England.

This equates to 15.5% of devices being in rural locations and 84.3% in urban locations.

This should be considered against population estimates for rural and urban locations. Latest statistics published by Defra, containing mid-year estimates for 2022, report that 16.6% of the population live in rural locations and 83.4% in urban locations.

The percentage increase in the number of public charging devices in rural locations is consistently higher than for urban locations. In 2024 there was a 45% increase in the number of public charging devices in rural locations, and a 35% increase in urban locations.

The Department does not hold data on the number of private electric vehicle charging devices by rural-urban classification.