The information requested is provided in the following table.
FRS area 2000-081 2000 2001 22002 20032 2004 2005 2006 2007 20081 England 354.6 55.1 53.8 52.7 51.5 53.0 52.8 57.3 57.8 58.7 Avon 54.2 49.8 44.5 60.5 60.2 54.3 50.0 73.7 60.3 48.0 Bedfordshire 52.5 62.0 40.3 55.3 50.2 55.0 78.0 53.3 — 38.0 Berkshire 54.6 50.9 65.8 19.0 44.7 66.0 84.0 67.5 57.0 53.3 Buckinghamshire 61.3 67.3 61.7 54.0 45.5 59.0 87.5 68.0 55.0 74.0 Cambridgeshire 54.8 60.7 24.5 11.0 50.5 67.7 63.5 37.0 80.5 57.0 Cheshire 58.9 76.8 74.4 38.2 45.3 76.0 52.9 50.8 60.4 60.4 Cleveland 38.6 54.0 41.8 30.5 28.1 22.5 39.5 45.5 72.0 63.5 Cornwall 69.0 78.5 53.0 69.3 59.3 71.7 69.5 — 86.5 79.0 Cumbria 66.1 83.3 67.8 79.0 65.0 63.3 86.0 30.0 63.4 65.2 Derbyshire 43.5 34.3 43.4 47.5 37.5 66.4 47.5 20.0 49.5 41.7 Devon and Somerset 52.1 63.0 51.5 45.7 54.2 61.7 55.3 55.1 48.7 32.5 Dorset 58.2 65.0 70.6 30.2 58.0 36.3 82.0 85.0 39.0 70.9 Durham 54.6 53.0 28.3 54.7 67.9 68.7 53.3 46.8 — 61.0 East Sussex 58.8 63.7 58.3 69.3 33.7 67.5 51.0 84.0 64.5 42.6 Essex 61.6 35.1 74.2 78.9 51.0 57.0 63.6 80.1 62.6 65.8 Gloucestershire 59.3 75.0 87.0 30.5 49.4 77.0 59.0 67.5 57.8 80.0 Greater London 55.7 58.2 50.8 59.6 52.5 55.6 49.7 67.9 59.8 50.8 Greater Manchester 51.2 56.0 60.2 51.5 45.8 54.0 43.1 47.3 53.6 54.9 Hampshire 56.9 70.4 51.3 60.8 48.4 60.6 56.7 53.0 54.0 54.2 Hereford and Worcester 69.7 59.0 79.0 82.3 69.0 53.5 71.5 57.3 78.7 50.0 Hertfordshire 61.3 45.8 78.6 61.4 0.0 — 43.8 84.5 50.0 58.0 Humberside 44.8 58.4 61.9 37.4 17.3 29.9 36.3 79.0 57.7 60.5 Isle of Wight 56.0 — — — — — 55.0 89.0 24.0 — Isles of Scilly — — — — — — — — — — Kent 49.9 60.4 46.8 55.9 48.7 56.4 42.6 33.8 43.3 60.2 Lancashire 49.7 33.5 53.1 43.5 52.2 52.1 59.8 47.7 62.7 70.4 Leicestershire 52.8 70.0 57.8 56.4 66.3 33.1 67.3 42.8 58.3 61.2 Lincolnshire 54.4 69.0 66.0 49.8 47.5 45.8 27.5 57.8 62.8 50.0 Merseyside 58.5 52.6 62.1 57.2 64.1 58.5 50.4 70.0 65.9 61.4 Norfolk 62.7 61.6 53.0 79.5 74.3 46.5 59.8 57.0 69.7 74.5 North Yorkshire 59.7 59.0 52.3 78.4 48.6 66.0 54.0 47.0 — 81.0 Northamptonshire 55.4 61.0 45.3 42.3 58.0 22.0 41.3 67.4 62.3 77.0 Northumberland 51.5 78.0 28.2 — 58.7 — 65.0 76.0 58.0 62.0 Nottinghamshire 56.8 65.0 51.3 48.3 48.0 65.2 53.8 55.4 64.0 76.0 Oxfordshire 59.2 24.0 64.7 54.2 55.0 71.5 80.5 60.0 51.7 73.0 Shropshire 51.9 37.1 60.0 56.8 78.0 50.0 68.5 33.8 90.0 67.6 South Yorkshire 54.0 55.7 37.7 57.0 45.1 67.3 61.8 56.3 57.0 61.9 Staffordshire 51.7 42.5 51.4 56.4 57.7 43.8 35.3 46.4 65.4 68.0 Suffolk 55.5 45.3 41.6 56.8 61.5 73.0 22.0 75.8 65.0 59.0 Surrey 61.9 57.1 20.0 52.0 72.0 64.0 74.0 79.8 58.3 58.5 Tyne and Wear 60.5 64.0 66.4 72.8 63.1 73.8 39.2 65.6 45.1 67.2 Warwickshire 56.6 72.2 42.2 0.0 49.0 72.5 53.7 — — 54.3 West Midlands 54.5 58.2 56.3 44.8 52.0 41.5 62.5 55.0 57.2 59.7 West Sussex 59.8 59.3 79.0 62.8 67.3 48.8 80.0 63.5 54.5 88.0 West Yorkshire 46.9 48.5 54.8 29.4 51.0 40.9 40.1 54.6 51.4 54.8 Wiltshire 54.9 — 41.3 88.5 61.0 47.0 — 53.5 39.0 55.4 1 Data for 2008 are provisional and subject to change. 2 Excluding incidents not recorded during periods of industrial action in 2002 (total of 18 incidents) and 2003 (total of five incidents) 3 Average age is calculated on the basis of all fatalities in dwelling fires.
The fatal casualties in dwelling fire rates per million population by age group, are shown in the table.
Age group 2000 2001 20022 20032 2004 2005 2006 2007 20081 Rate (per million) of fatal casualties 7.0 7.3 6.2 6.9 5.3 5.7 5.7 4.9 5.0 Under 1 year 1.7 1.8 1.8 3.5 — 3.3 1.6 4.7 — 1-4 4.1 5.5 4.8 10.6 7.5 4.4 5.1 3.3 1.6 5-10 3.1 3.7 4.8 1.6 3.0 2.8 2.3 0.6 1.7 11-16 1.8 1.0 1.0 0.8 1.0 0.8 1.3 0.5 0.3 17-24 2.5 4.4 2.7 3.2 2.0 2.9 1.1 1.8 1.6 25-29 3.7 4.3 4.4 7.4 3.2 3.2 2.4 2.7 2.3 30-59 6.1 5.6 5.3 6.2 4.5 5.0 4.4 4.3 4.5 60-64 7.5 5.9 8.3 6.2 6.4 8.5 7.4 5.2 6.6 65-79 13.2 12.2 10.6 10.4 9.7 11.0 12.1 9.6 8.9 80 and over 35.8 38.1 24.9 28.1 21.3 18.7 26.4 23.3 23.8 Unspecified — — — — — — — — — 1 Data for fatal casualties 2008 are provisional and subject to change. 2 Excluding incidents not recorded during periods of industrial action in 2002 (total of 18 incidents) and 2003 (total of five incidents). Sources: Fire incidents data base, Communities and Local Government, and Mid-Year Population Estimates 2000 to 2008, Office for National Statistics.