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UK Number Plate Price Trends

How private number plate prices have really moved - by format, year by year - built from genuine DVLA and auction-house hammer prices, not asking prices or estimates.

  • 25k+ hammer prices analysed
  • 2000–2026 years covered
  • 4 plate formats tracked
Dateless £3,760 2026 median · 3,209 sales ▲ 12.9% YoY Index 113
Prefix £560 2026 median · 2,648 sales ▲ 0.0% YoY Index 99
Suffix £1,280 2026 median · 3,777 sales ▲ 2.4% YoY Index 104
Current £1,040 2026 median · 486 sales ▼ 25.2% YoY Index 80

Price index by format

Median hammer price per quarter, smoothed over three quarters and indexed so that 2025 = 100. Above the dotted line means prices are higher than the base year.

Dateless Prefix Suffix Current
758810011312520252026

Only quarters with at least 25 sales in a format are plotted; the line breaks where data is thin.

What the data shows

  • Dateless plates are up 12.9% year on year: the 2026 median hammer price is £3,760 across 3,209 sales.
  • Prefix plates are flat 0.0% year on year: the 2026 median hammer price is £560 across 2,648 sales.
  • Suffix plates are up 2.4% year on year: the 2026 median hammer price is £1,280 across 3,777 sales.
  • Current plates are down 25.2% year on year: the 2026 median hammer price is £1,040 across 486 sales.
  • Since 2025 the strongest performer is Dateless, now at 113 on the index (base year = 100).
  • Results before 2025 are a small, hand-collected sample of notable sales (typically the most expensive lots of each year), so they appear in the table for interest but are excluded from the index.
  • The highest hammer price on file is £400,000 for 25 O.

Yearly median hammer price by format

Year DatelessPrefixSuffixCurrent Sales (n)
2026 £3,760 £560 £1,280 £1,040 10,120
2025 £3,330 £560 £1,250 £1,390 14,191
2024 £17,800 — £23,065 — 151
2023 £20,705 £30,250 £30,100 — 172
2022 £24,990 £27,560 £50,000 £30,010 174
2021 £22,110 £42,175 £30,010 — 135
2020 small sample £21,750 — £28,250 — 68
2019 small sample £23,000 — — — 26
2018 small sample £27,000 — — — 29
2017 small sample £30,500 — — — 22
2016 small sample £29,950 — — — 25
2015 small sample £30,250 — — £55,500 26
2014 small sample £25,000 — — — 13
2013 small sample £29,500 — — £30,000 8
2012 small sample £31,500 — — £30,000 11
2011 small sample £28,250 — — — 8
2010 small sample £36,500 — — — 16
2009 small sample £65,600 — — — 18
2008 small sample £25,500 — — — 12
2007 small sample £17,800 — — — 7
2006 small sample £33,900 — — £62,000 19
2005 small sample £17,950 — — — 7
2004 small sample £20,500 — — — 17
2003 small sample £20,600 — — — 8
2002 small sample £26,000 £25,500 £30,500 — 17
2001 small sample £20,950 £31,000 — — 19
2000 small sample £26,400 £33,750 — — 13

Medians rather than averages, so a single six-figure lot cannot drag a whole year. Cells with fewer than three sales are left blank; years shaded as small samples are hand-collected notable lots, not the whole market.

Trending now

The plates people have valued most on this site in the last 30 days.

  • F 1 £27,560 – £100,580 2 checks
  • CS04 ADE £290 – £530 2 checks
  • P14 MOE £450 – £520 2 checks
  • W90 ODC £300 – £690 2 checks
  • W90 ODS £310 – £360 2 checks
  • T24 PPB £270 – £320 2 checks
  • 1 FLO £10,180 – £27,680 2 checks
  • 1 FHC £10,180 – £27,680 2 checks

Biggest hammer prices on file

  • 25 O £400,000 Dateless · 2014
  • 1 D £285,000 Dateless · 2009
  • 1 GR £250,000 Dateless · 2025
  • DEV 1L £240,010 Suffix · 2021
  • IG 1 £222,000 Dateless · 2019
  • Y 6 £213,000 Dateless · 2022
  • F80 FER £205,500 Prefix · 2026
  • 51 NGH £201,000 Dateless · 2006
  • 1 NR £200,000 Dateless · 2026
  • 1 RH £196,000 Dateless · 2008

How to read this index

Every point is a real hammer price from a DVLA Personalised Registrations auction or a recognised auction house, never an asking price. Plates are grouped into four formats: dateless (pre-1963 and Northern Irish, no age identifier), suffix (1963-83), prefix (1983-2001) and current (2001 onwards). For each quarter we take the median price in each format, smooth it over three quarters to reduce single-auction noise, and express it relative to the base year. Quarters with too few sales are left off rather than guessed.

An index is a guide to direction, not a valuation. Mix matters: a month heavy with short dateless lots will read high regardless of underlying demand. For a specific registration, run it through the free valuer - it prices against comparable plates of the same format, not the market as a whole.

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