New research from CareCo reveals the UK’s most accessible cities

Leading mobility retailer CareCo has researched across the UK, looking at each City to find out where the UKs most accessible Cities are. With 41% of working age adults in the UK with a disability, mobility is the most common.

As a result, CareCo wanted to find out where the most accessible cities in the UK are.

Using methodology in which we used a crowd sourced map from toilet map with a radar key filter, wheelchair accessible attractions filter on visit revisit, blue badge parking spots from blue badge parking, and the wheelchair accessible filter on trip advisor. We a proportionate data equation based on population in each area to weight each city fairly.

The research found that the top 20 most accessible cities in the UK are:

1. St Davids – Wales
2. St Asaph – Wales
3. Inverness – Scotland
4. Chichester – England
5. Bangor – Wales
6. Wells – England
7. Ripon – England
8. Durham – England
9. Stirling – Stirling
10. Ely – England
11. York – England
12. St Albans – England
13. Lichfield – England
14. Truro – England
15. Canterbury – England
16. Bath – England
17. Salisbury – England
18. Wrexham – Wales
19. Winchester – England
20. Perth – Scotland

The cities with the most accessible restaurants outside of London:

1. Glasgow
2. Edinburgh
3. Manchester
4. Birmingham
5. Leeds
6. Liverpool
7. Sheffield
8. Bristol
9. Brighton & Hove
10. Newcastle-upon-Tyne

The cities with the most accessible parking outside of London:

1. Glasgow
2. Brighton & Hove
3. Edinburgh
4. Bristol
5. Nottingham
6. Southampton
7. Birmingham
8. Manchester
9. Plymouth
10. Portsmouth

The cities with the best accessible accommodation outside London:

1. Edinburgh
2. Liverpool
3. Birmingham
4. Manchester
5. Inverness
6. York
7. Aberdeen
8. Belfast
9. Cardiff
10. Brighton & Hove

The cities with the best accessible toilets outside London:

1. Bristol
2. Belfast
3. Edinburgh
4. Coventry
5. Stoke on Trent
6. Salisbury
7. Chichester
8. Worcester
9. Wolverhampton
10. Carlisle

The cities with the most accessible attractions:

1. St Albans
2. London
3. Nottingham
4. Derby
5. Lichfield
6. Leicester
7. Sunderland
8. Milton Keynes
9. Durham
10. Wakefield

Data sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/ – UK cities

https://www.toiletmap.org.uk/ – radar key filter

https://visitrevisit.co.uk/  – wheelchair accessible attractions

https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/ – wheelchair accessible filter

https://bluebadgeparking.com/ – blue badge parking spots available

Will Harrison, founder of CareCo and mobility expert, says, “What is positive to see from the data is that the UK is accessible to most, but that doesn’t mean that we should stop pushing to make sure everywhere is as accessible as it possibly can be.”