Top 36 UK Local Authorities with Full Fibre Cover Above 50 Percent
The latest independent data from Thinkbroadband has revealed the top 36 local authorities in the United Kingdom where Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband coverage has reached over 50%. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the list is topped by Hull (99.08%), where KCOM has already completed their full fibre rollout.
The report notes that some 26% of UK premises can now access a full fibre network (i.e. a one percentage point increase on the 25% reported a month ago) and, when combined, the listed 36 authorities represent around 2.6 million of the total 8 million premises with access to such connectivity.
For a bit of additional fun, we’ve also added the comparative figures from 31st August 2020, which helps to show how much progress has been made in each of the listed local authorities since last year.
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| Local Authority | Full Fibre Coverage (2021) | 2020 |
| City of Kingston upon Hull | 99.08% | 99.03% |
| Milton Keynes | 87.42% | 77.77% |
| Belfast | 83.42% | 74.75% |
| Ards and North Down | 80.46% | 55.84% |
| Antrim and Newtownabbey | 76.84% | 52.76% |
| Mid and East Antrim | 76.05% | 52.43% |
| Coventry District | 75.41% | 53.37% |
| Lisburn and Castlereagh | 73.15% | 58.67% |
| Armagh, Banbridge and Craigavon | 72.12% | 50.21% |
| Derry and Strabane | 71.93% | 55.23% |
| Epsom and Ewell District | 71.02% | 44.67% |
| Newham | 68.88% | 29.34% |
| City of Peterborough | 68.56% | 43% |
| Tower Hamlets | 68.06% | 48.12% |
| Exeter District | 67.65% | 59.53% |
| Thanet District | 65.74% | 50.28% |
| York | 65.58% | 62.08% |
| Mourne and Down | 65.49% | 22.72% |
| Wirral District | 65.17% | 38% |
| Causeway Coast and Glens | 64.55% | 27.71% |
| Salford District | 63.32% | 59.74% |
| Worthing District | 62.95% | 21.94% |
| East Riding of Yorkshire | 62.75% | 49.06% |
| Tameside District | 61.73% | 58.51% |
| City of Bristol | 61.32% | 51.51% |
| City of Westminster | 59.88% | 50.86% |
| Southwark | 59.76% | 46.8% |
| Bury District | 59.16% | 16.94% |
| Mid Ulster | 57.17% | 30.18% |
| Leeds District | 56.06% | 39.83% |
| Barking and Dagenham | 53.84% | 51.22% |
| Bromsgrove District | 53.76% | 25.94% |
| Stirling | 53.39% | 42.43% |
| Hammersmith and Fulham | 52.48% | 28.69% |
| City of Edinburgh | 50.99% | 34.38% |
| Sir y Fflint – Flintshire | 50.16% | 14.36% |
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Disappointed not to see Greater Manchester in the list above! Would like to know exactly where they are up to – certainly not embracing the Manchester attitude!
Or pretty much all of West London
There’s 3 Manchester “districts” in there – Salford, Bury and Tameside so representation probably better than most other cities once you remove Hull and Northern Ireland from the numbers
I’m actually disappointed Islington is not up there either
Slough is missing too but that might be because the installed fibre isn’t yet ready to be activated for customer use.
Both Openreach and CityFibre have been very busy rolling out fibre, I’ve seen kit for both installed on the majority of telephone poles I have gone past and CityFibre have also dug up loads of pavements! It’s hardly a large area, being 12.56 square miles.
Funny about Slough. There must be millions of fibre optic cables laying under the roads and pavements there. It’s like the data centre capital of the UK. Maybe you could ask one of the DCs to fibre you up instead lol.
What a complete shambles, with massive cities and big towns completely missing from the list. Guess it just goes to show how uninvested both the companies and government truly are in pushing forward with a full FTTP rollout in this country.
Welcome to the postcode lottery!
Its not even a postcode lottery.. In my close of 16 houses we have Openreach FTTP fed with u/g duct.. all the same postcode, but one arm of the road with 6 houses haven’t been covered as their duct runs the other way!