With the summer holidays here and many parents planning how to keep their children entertained during this break, but are there enough free activities?

Intrigued by this, the experts at Polybound, a Rubber Crumb supplier analysed gov.uk data to find the total number of parks per local authority. The number of children in the local authorities was sourced from ONS, to eventually find which local authority has the most play parks per 100 children.

The results:

Local Authority	Total parks	Total children under 15	Parks per 100 children
North Yorkshire	5,009	99,915	5.01
York	1,134	30,629	3.70
East Riding of Yorkshire	1,546	54,475	2.84
Kirklees	2,127	87,243	2.44
Wakefield	1,603	66,827	2.40
North Lincolnshire	691	30,335	2.28
Leeds	3,446	154,770	2.23
Sheffield	1,605	101,403	1.58
Doncaster	843	58,089	1.45
Kingston upon Hull	779	53,802	1.45

Doncaster has the second least number of parks per 100 children under the age of 15 in Yorkshire, at 1.45. This is more than a third the number of parks per 100 children than in York (3.70), who have a child population (30,629).

North Yorkshire has the most parks per 100 children under the age of 15 in Yorkshire, at 5.01. This is over triple the number of parks per 100 children than in Sheffield (1.58), who have a child population (101,403) that is just 1.4% larger than North Yorkshire (99,915).

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