The Travel to and from School by Pupils in Northern Ireland 2023/24 report is published
Date published:
The Travel to and from School by Pupils in Northern Ireland 2023/24 report has been published today.
This report, produced by the Analysis, Statistics and Research Branch (ASRB) of the Department for Infrastructure (DfI), presents findings from the 2023/24 Continuous Household Survey (CHS).
The publication is available on the Department for Infrastructure website.
Key points:
Primary School
- For main mode of travel, 61% of pupils were driven to/from school by car and 26% usually walked. A further 10% took a bus and 1% cycled to and/or from school.
- Of those who walked to school, 94% of primary school pupils walked all of the way to/from school. Thirty-five percent spent 10 minutes or less walking to and from school and 52% spent 11-20 minutes.
- Fifty-one percent of primary school pupils live a mile or less from school and of these, 48% were driven to school by car and 46% walked to school.
Post Primary School
- Amongst post-primary school pupils, 41% travelled to/from school by bus as their main mode of travel while 42% travelled to/from school by car. A further 15% pupils walked to/from school.
- Of those who walked to school, 81% of post primary school pupils walked all of the way to/from school. Twenty-four percent of post-primary school pupils spent 10 minutes or less walking to and from school, 50% spent 11-20 minutes and 16% spent 21-30 minutes.
- For post-primary school pupils, 51% lived 4 or more miles from their school. Only 19% of post primary school pupils lived less than 1 mile from their school and of those 56% walked to school.
