Punctuality of bus services - South Yorkshire 

Last updated: 14 September 2022

Monthly data on the punctuality of bus services across the South Yorkshire region.

Punctuality is a measure of whether buses are running on time.

In line with national guidelines, a bus is considered on time where the bus departs from a Timing Points within the bracket of up to 1 minute early and up to 5 minutes late. The graphs represent the percentage of Bus Partnerships services which departed on time by month - the data used to create the graphs is presented in tables below each graph.



Barnsley

Barnsley Bus Partnership punctuality August 22


Performance figures: Percentage of Services on time

Barnsley

2019/20

2020/21

2021/222022/23

Apr

85%

92%

88%84%

May

86%

89%

88%84%

Jun

87%

90%

87%84%

Jul

86%

90% 

89%84%

Aug

86%

90% 

89%85%

Sep

84%

88% 

85%

Oct

84%

89% 

84%

Nov

78%

91% 

80%

Dec

81%

 86%

79%

Jan

84%

 91%

85%

Feb

85%

 91%

85%

Mar

88%

 91%

82%

Doncaster

Doncaster Bus Partnership Punctuality August 22


Performance figures: Percentage of services on time


Doncaster
2019/20
2020/21
2021/222022/23

Apr

84%

89%

85%81%

May

83%

87%

84%80%

Jun

85%

88%

83%79%

Jul

86%

87%

86%79%

Aug

86%

86% 

83%78%

Sep

82%

79% 

79%

Oct

83%

83% 

79%

Nov

75%

87% 

76%

Dec

77%

 84%

76%

Jan

81%

 90%

81%

Feb

77%

 89%

82%

Mar

80%

 90%

79%



Rotherham

Rotherham Bus Partnership Punctuality Roth August 22


Performance figures: Percentage of services on time


Rotherham2019/202020/212021/222022/23

Apr

85%

91%

88%84%

May

84%

91%

87%82%

Jun

85%

90%

86%81%

Jul

87%

90% 

87%82%

Aug

87%

87% 

86%83%

Sep

84%

85% 

83%

Oct

83%

87% 

82%

Nov

76%

88% 

79%

Dec

76%

 84%

78%

Jan

82%

 90%

84%

Feb

80%

 90%

83%

Mar

84%

 91%

81%



Sheffield

Sheffield bus punctuality graph August 22


Performance figures: Percentage of services on time

Sheffield2019/202020/212021/222022/23

Apr

87%

90%

88%83%

May

85%

89%

87%81%

Jun

83%

89%

85%79%

Jul

83%

90% 

87%79%

Aug

87%

89% 

86%84%

Sep

83%

86% 

78%

Oct

81%

88% 

77%

Nov

74%

89% 

77%

Dec

74%

 86%

75%

Jan

83%

 90%

83%

Feb

82%

 90%

83%

Mar

85%

 89%

81%

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