The UK used car market in numbers
Live figures from Local Car Sales — the free national marketplace for independent dealers.
Live since 30 June 2026 — 133 days. Updated daily, drawn straight from the live database. Last refreshed 10 November 2026.
96,792
Used cars for sale right now
every one from an independent dealer
£1.49 billion
Combined stock value
across the whole marketplace
3,099
Independent dealers listed
in 1,276 UK towns & cities
The market this week
14,134
new cars listed in the last 7 days
98%
of stock confirmed on sale within 7 days
£15,410
average asking price
2,295
dealers with 10+ cars in stock
4,685
electric & hybrid cars in stock
5.7bn
miles on the clock, combined
enough for 229,300 laps of the Earth
Since launch — 133 days
402,517
cars indexed since 26 May 2026
indexing began before launch — that's 2,396 cars a day
294,899
cars that found new owners or moved on while listed
346
personalised car alerts emailed to buyers
What the marketplace does every month
1,979,524
car impressions shown to real visitors
last 30 days, bots excluded
1,607
cars featured across our Facebook network
last 30 days
3
buyers with live car alerts
right now
Who is actually on here
The size of the index matters less than what is in it. These are independent forecourts, not supermarkets or franchise groups.
19
cars on the median forecourt
half our dealers have fewer than this
95%
of our dealers hold 100 cars or fewer
71%
of all stock comes from those smaller dealers
We are not a smaller version of a big portal. We are a different thing.
The clue is in the name. Local Car Sales indexes local independent dealers — the median forecourt here holds 19 cars. Comparing our total stock against a marketplace that also lists car supermarkets, franchise groups and national chains compares two different populations, and the number tells you nothing useful.
You grow, we grow. Every car a dealer puts on makes the index more useful to buyers, and every buyer it brings makes it more useful to dealers. There is no version of this where we do well and they do not. That is why listing is free and why we take no commission.
It's the dealers that are building this search engine.
Every car here comes from an independent dealer's own website. The more dealers who list, the larger the index grows — and the more of Britain's independent forecourt stock becomes findable in one place. The dealers build it; we just keep the index running and free to be on.
Reliability
100.00%
uptime, last 30 days
independently monitored by UptimeRobot, every 5 minutes
258ms
average response time
24/7
independent monitoring since 16 Aug 2026
About these figures. Everything on this page is generated live from our database and
refreshed daily — no estimates, no projections. We count real people, not bots. Local Car Sales indexes
the stock of independent dealers across the UK and lists it free, forever: our aim is to give every
independent the same national shop window the big portals charge thousands a month for.
Journalists and researchers are welcome to cite these figures with a link to this page.