You asked
I am writing to request divorce statistics by region across the UK from 2016 to 2017 and 2017 to 2018.
We said
Thank you for your request.
We are unable to produce divorce statistics by area of residence – divorce data provided to us by the courts does not contain information on the area of residence of the parties.
Since 2018, Family court statistics quarterly published by Ministry of Justice has included a file in CSV format containing petitioner’s local authority of usual residence. Information on the location of the court is also available from Family court statistics quarterly; however, court location does not accurately reflect where parties lived either before or after separation; divorce courts were also centralised in 2015 to 11 main divorce centres throughout England and Wales.