diff --git a/packages/grafana-data/src/transformations/transformers/convertFieldType.test.ts b/packages/grafana-data/src/transformations/transformers/convertFieldType.test.ts
index 7e6e1fd5aaa..d8e70c81138 100644
--- a/packages/grafana-data/src/transformations/transformers/convertFieldType.test.ts
+++ b/packages/grafana-data/src/transformations/transformers/convertFieldType.test.ts
@@ -121,6 +121,26 @@ it('can convert strings with commas to numbers', () => {
   });
 });
 
+it('converts booleans to numbers', () => {
+  const options = { targetField: 'booleans', destinationType: FieldType.number };
+
+  const stringyNumbers = {
+    name: 'booleans',
+    type: FieldType.boolean,
+    values: new ArrayVector([true, false]),
+    config: {},
+  };
+
+  const numbers = convertFieldType(stringyNumbers, options);
+
+  expect(numbers).toEqual({
+    name: 'booleans',
+    type: FieldType.number,
+    values: new ArrayVector([1, 0]),
+    config: {},
+  });
+});
+
 describe('field convert types transformer', () => {
   beforeAll(() => {
     mockTransformationsRegistry([convertFieldTypeTransformer]);
diff --git a/packages/grafana-data/src/transformations/transformers/convertFieldType.ts b/packages/grafana-data/src/transformations/transformers/convertFieldType.ts
index 318f1a3f4eb..92129534e5b 100644
--- a/packages/grafana-data/src/transformations/transformers/convertFieldType.ts
+++ b/packages/grafana-data/src/transformations/transformers/convertFieldType.ts
@@ -141,10 +141,19 @@ export function fieldToTimeField(field: Field, dateFormat?: string): Field {
 function fieldToNumberField(field: Field): Field {
   const numValues = field.values.toArray().slice();
 
+  const valuesAsStrings = numValues.some((v) => typeof v === 'string');
+
   for (let n = 0; n < numValues.length; n++) {
-    // some numbers returned from datasources have commas
-    // strip the commas, coerce the string to a number
-    const number = +numValues[n].replace(/,/g, '');
+    let toBeConverted = numValues[n];
+
+    if (valuesAsStrings) {
+      // some numbers returned from datasources have commas
+      // strip the commas, coerce the string to a number
+      toBeConverted = toBeConverted.replace(/,/g, '');
+    }
+
+    const number = +toBeConverted;
+
     numValues[n] = Number.isFinite(number) ? number : null;
   }