1×1 Number 1
Not enough data for the latest month.
Base period: December 1996 = 100
UK Number Plate Price Index
Track how UK private number plate prices have changed over time. Compare typical sale prices across different registration formats using recorded completed sales.
Typical sale price (10% trimmed mean). Click a legend entry to hide or show a line. Gaps mean there weren't enough sales to calculate a reliable figure.
Latest Figures
1×1 Non-Number 1
Not enough data for the latest month.
Base period: September 1992 = 100
2-Letter Number 1
- Typical sale price
- £164,111
- Median
- £137,976
- Sales used
- 26 (36 months)
- Index
- 495
- 1 year
- +1.8%
- 5 years
- -42.4%
- 10 years
- Not enough data
- Since base
- +395.2%
Base period: March 1990 = 100
3-Letter Number 1
- Typical sale price
- £15,145
- Median
- £13,132
- Sales used
- 163 (12 months)
- Index
- 66
- 1 year
- +2.2%
- 5 years
- +9.8%
- 10 years
- +62.7%
- Since base
- -34.0%
Base period: March 1990 = 100
1×2 Letters Last
- Typical sale price
- £48,886
- Median
- £46,480
- Sales used
- 45 (24 months)
- Index
- 392
- 1 year
- +9.7%
- 5 years
- +93.8%
- 10 years
- +287.6%
- Since base
- +292.1%
Base period: May 1990 = 100
1×2 Letter First
- Typical sale price
- £62,147
- Median
- £64,320
- Sales used
- 13 (36 months)
- Index
- 124
- 1 year
- +3.3%
- 5 years
- Not enough data
- 10 years
- Not enough data
- Since base
- +23.8%
Base period: June 2022 = 100
2×1 Letters First
- Typical sale price
- £50,298
- Median
- £44,808
- Sales used
- 19 (36 months)
- Index
- 142
- 1 year
- -3.4%
- 5 years
- +30.0%
- 10 years
- Not enough data
- Since base
- +41.9%
Base period: September 2020 = 100
2×1 Letter Last
- Typical sale price
- £70,344
- Median
- £72,559
- Sales used
- 31 (24 months)
- Index
- 922
- 1 year
- +18.6%
- 5 years
- +27.9%
- 10 years
- +59.5%
- Since base
- +822.4%
Base period: July 1992 = 100
3×3
- Typical sale price
- £2,439
- Median
- £1,941
- Sales used
- 1173 (12 months)
- Index
- 25
- 1 year
- +0.2%
- 5 years
- +4.5%
- 10 years
- +159.5%
- Since base
- -75.3%
Base period: December 1989 = 100
3×1 Non-Number 1
- Typical sale price
- £7,017
- Median
- £6,211
- Sales used
- 162 (12 months)
- Index
- 238
- 1 year
- +22.3%
- 5 years
- +59.2%
- 10 years
- +239.6%
- Since base
- +137.9%
Base period: September 1991 = 100
1×3 Non-Number 1
- Typical sale price
- £7,259
- Median
- £6,749
- Sales used
- 575 (12 months)
- Index
- 131
- 1 year
- +6.1%
- 5 years
- +12.9%
- 10 years
- +119.0%
- Since base
- +30.9%
Base period: March 1990 = 100
2×2
- Typical sale price
- £10,484
- Median
- £9,944
- Sales used
- 324 (12 months)
- Index
- 121
- 1 year
- +10.5%
- 5 years
- +32.4%
- 10 years
- +139.5%
- Since base
- +20.9%
Base period: March 1990 = 100
Past prices do not indicate or guarantee future values. Not investment advice.
How the Number Plate Price Index Works
Number plate sale prices can vary enormously, even within the same registration format.
To reduce the effect of exceptional results, we calculate a rolling typical sale price using a trimmed average. For each category, the highest and lowest 10% of qualifying sale prices are removed before calculating the average of the remaining results.
Each monthly figure uses the previous 12 months of completed sales. Where a category has fewer than 50 sales in that time the window widens to 24 months, then 36 months; if there are still fewer than 10 sales, no figure is shown for that month. We use the total price paid including buyer's premium and fees, and exclude multi-plate lots and duplicate records.
The index is updated monthly using completed sales recorded by NumberPlates.org. Where sufficient historic data exists, each category is rebased to December 1989 = 100. Categories without reliable data from December 1989 begin at their first reliable period.
Prefix, suffix and current-style registrations contain much wider variations in quality and desirability than the shorter dateless categories. Their index values should therefore be treated as broad market indicators.
Compare Number Plate Prices
Use the graph to compare how different registration formats have performed historically, in pounds or as an index from a common starting point.
Want to see the individual sales behind the data? Explore more than 330,000 recorded transactions in the Number Plate Sales Explorer.