A data explorer built on the UK Health Security Agency’s 2024 surveillance release. London’s overall rate is 2.2× the England average. Syphilis is at a 77-year high. Scabies diagnoses rose 43% in twelve months. Pick your slice of the data below.
Each of these is straight from the 2024 UKHSA tables. Tap Copy for a pre-written caption you can drop into a tweet, a press pitch or a slide.
There were 9,535 diagnoses of early-stage syphilis in England in 2024. The last time the figure was this high, penicillin was new. Toggle the chart to see what’s really driving the curve: it isn’t twenty-somethings.
Two snapshots of every STI diagnosis made in England. Cases are still concentrated in the 20–34 band – but every older bracket has grown relative to the younger ones.
UKHSA now breaks gonorrhoea diagnoses down by the number of sexual partners a patient reports in the previous three months. The biggest single category? People reporting one partner or none at all – a reminder that infections can sit asymptomatic for months.
All figures are drawn from the UK Health Security Agency’s 2024 STI surveillance data, published in June and December 2025. Regional boundaries are from the ONS European Electoral Regions file, which matches UKHSA’s nine-region groupings.
Rates are per 100,000 population and use residence data – patients are counted in the region they live in, not the one they were tested in. New STI diagnoses include chlamydia, gonorrhoea, syphilis (primary, secondary and early latent), genital herpes (first episode), genital warts (first episode), trichomoniasis, scabies, molluscum, mycoplasma genitalium and a small residual “other” group.
A few things to know before quoting these numbers. The 2020 and 2021 figures reflect reduced clinic access during COVID, not lower transmission. Gender and sexual-orientation fields are self-reported at the clinic and completeness improved sharply from 2020 onwards. Rates for smaller demographic groups (e.g. WSW) carry wide confidence intervals; read percentage changes with care at low counts. Scabies is technically a mite infestation, not a sexually transmitted infection, but it’s reported here because sexual health clinics see a high volume of it.
Source tables used: UKHSA Table 1 (new STI diagnoses by gender), Table 2 (diagnoses and rates by gender, orientation, age and region), Table 9 (diagnoses by number of sex partners). Dataset version: 3 June 2025, updated 1 December 2025.
