UK Data Sources

Comprehensive population data from Census 2021 covering age, ethnicity, health, qualifications, household composition and more. Accessed via the NOMIS API (NM_2021_1).

Scotland's census data covering population demographics, households and health at Data Zone level.

Business Register and Employment Survey data providing employment and economic activity breakdowns at LSOA level.

Economic activity data from Scotland's Census 2022 (table UV601). Covers employment, self-employment, unemployment and economic inactivity at Data Zone level.

Complete record of residential property sale prices in England and Wales, including property type, tenure, and whether new-build. Supports multi-year imports.

Street-level crime and anti-social behaviour data from all police forces in England and Wales. Includes crime category breakdowns and outcome data. Police.uk also covers Northern Ireland but NI data is not currently included.

Enterprise counts and local unit counts by industry sector at MSOA level. Provides insight into the business landscape and commercial activity of an area.

Enterprise counts by employment size band (micro, small, medium, large) at Intermediate Zone level for Scotland. Sourced from the same NOMIS dataset (NM_142_1) as the England & Wales business counts.

The official measure of relative deprivation in England (IoD25). Uses 2021 LSOA codes with 100% coverage. Covers seven domains: income, employment, education, health, crime, housing and living environment, plus supplementary indices (IDACI, IDAOPI).

The official measure of relative deprivation for small areas in Wales across eight domains including income, employment, health and education.

Scotland's official tool for identifying areas of multiple deprivation. Ranks Data Zones across seven domains including income, employment, health and education.

Register of schools, colleges and children's centres. We compute the nearest 10 schools for every postcode using a spatial grid index with OSGB36 coordinate transformation and Haversine distance calculations.

Postcode-level broadband coverage data (speed availability tiers, speed distribution bands, USO compliance) combined with Local Authority-level mobile coverage data (4G/5G indoor/outdoor availability). Data snapshot: July 2025.

Domestic Energy Performance Certificates recording each property's current and potential energy efficiency rating (A–G), floor area, estimated energy use and CO₂ emissions, plus property type, tenure and built form.

Domestic Energy Performance Certificates for Scotland, recording the same measures as England & Wales: current and potential energy efficiency rating (A–G), floor area, energy use, CO₂ emissions, and property type, tenure and built form.

Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea — a national screening assessment of river and coastal flood risk, with individual properties classified into bands (very low, low, medium, high).

SEPA Flood Hazard Maps showing the present-day extent of river and coastal flooding by likelihood band (low, medium, high). Band thresholds differ from England's, so cross-border comparison is indicative.

Flood Risk Assessment Wales (FRAW) — maps of river and sea flood risk classified by band (low, medium, high) that take account of existing flood defences, unlike Scotland's undefended hazard maps.

Modelled prevalence of 21 long-term conditions (including diabetes, high blood pressure, asthma, COPD, depression and dementia) from GP practice disease registers.

Modelled prevalence of 19 conditions from Welsh GP practice disease registers, spread to neighbourhoods with a distance model from practice locations and list sizes. Compared with the Wales rate.

Modelled prevalence of 20 conditions from Scottish GP practice disease prevalence data, spread to Data Zones with a distance model from practice locations and list sizes. Compared with the Scotland rate.

Observed climate on a 1 km grid — maximum and minimum temperature, rainfall, sunshine, air-frost days and rain days — for the latest year and each season, alongside the 1991–2020 average.

Open geography data from the ONS used to map postcodes to statistical geographies including LSOAs, MSOAs, Local Authorities, regions, and coordinates.

Open mapping data from Ordnance Survey used to draw the boundary of every postcode in Great Britain, at unit, sector, district and area level.

Official boundaries for the small statistical areas (LSOAs and MSOAs) that much of the England and Wales data is published on.

Official boundaries for Scotland's Data Zones, the small areas that the Scottish census and deprivation data are published on.