Data sources and credits
Every source the report uses, its publisher, its licence and the credit it asks for. Each report section also names its own sources and dates.
Prices and homes
| Data | Publisher | Licence | Credit |
|---|---|---|---|
| HM Land Registry Price Paid Data | HM Land Registry | OGL v3 | Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| How long homes are owned before they are sold again, by street, postcode sector and council (worked out by us from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data since 1995: two sales of the same address make a resale pair) | HM Land Registry | OGL v3 (address fields: Royal Mail and Ordnance Survey data, used under the terms HM Land Registry states) | Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| UK House Price Index | HM Land Registry, with Registers of Scotland, Land & Property Services Northern Ireland and the Office for National Statistics | OGL v3 | Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| INSPIRE Index Polygons (freehold title extents) | HM Land Registry; Ordnance Survey | OGL v3 | This information is subject to Crown copyright and database rights 2026 and is reproduced with the permission of HM Land Registry. The polygons (including the associated geometry, namely x, y co-ordinates) are subject to Crown copyright and database rights 2026 Ordnance Survey AC0000851063. Conditions: use-land-property-data.service.gov.uk/datasets/inspire/#conditions. |
| Registered leases (once connected) | HM Land Registry | HM Land Registry commercial licence | Information produced by HM Land Registry. Crown copyright and database rights 2026. The UPRNs are subject to GeoPlace LLP copyright and database rights 2026. |
| UK and overseas companies that own property in England and Wales (counts by postcode; the UK owners' company numbers are used only to look them up on Companies House) | HM Land Registry | HM Land Registry licence | Information produced by HM Land Registry. © Crown copyright 2026. |
| Domestic energy performance certificates | Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government | OGL v3 (certificate data); postcodes used under licence | Energy certificate data: MHCLG, Open Government Licence v3.0. Address lines are not used. |
| The roof's solar potential: building outlines (OS OpenMap – Local, layer Building), with OS Open UPRN address points to find the home's part | Ordnance Survey | OGL v3 | Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right. |
| The roof's solar potential: solar electricity a year and by month for each 10 km square (PVGIS 5.3, PVGIS-SARAH3 radiation, 2005 to 2023) | European Commission Joint Research Centre (PVGIS) | Free to use, no restrictions (PVGIS usage conditions) | Source: PVGIS, European Commission Joint Research Centre. "The information provided by PVGIS is free and there are no restrictions on its use." |
| Energy price cap unit rate for electricity (Direct Debit, average across Great Britain), for the roof's solar potential in pounds | Ofgem | OGL v3 | Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| Council Tax stock of properties and council tax levels | Valuation Office Agency; MHCLG | OGL v3 | Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| Councils in financial difficulty (a reviewed list): section 114 notices, exceptional financial support, council tax referendum principles and statutory interventions | MHCLG (GOV.UK); UK Parliament written statements; the councils' own section 114 reports | OGL v3; Open Parliament Licence v3.0 | Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. |
| Price Index of Private Rents | Office for National Statistics | OGL v3 | Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| Mortgage and landlord possession statistics by local authority (claims, orders, warrants and repossessions by county court bailiffs, quarterly) and individual insolvencies by location (bankruptcies, debt relief orders and individual voluntary arrangements by council, yearly), with Census 2021 households by tenure for the rates | Ministry of Justice; The Insolvency Service; Office for National Statistics | OGL v3 | Contains public sector information from the Ministry of Justice and The Insolvency Service licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| Mortgage lending within UK postcodes: residential mortgage balances by postcode sector (once UK Finance gives written permission; not shown until then) | UK Finance | UK Finance's written permission (requested) | © UK Finance. Used with its written permission. |
| OS Open UPRN and Code-Point Open (with the ONS postcode lookup, the position, council, ward and neighbourhood of every Great Britain postcode) | Ordnance Survey | OGL v3 | Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right. Contains Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right. Contains National Statistics data © Crown copyright and database right. |
| ONS postcode and census geography lookups, and the district to region lookup (crime rates by region) | Office for National Statistics | OGL v3 | Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right. Contains Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right. |
Flooding and environment
| Data | Publisher | Licence | Credit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flood Map for Planning (Flood Zones 2 and 3), Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea, and Risk of Flooding from Surface Water (with its depth, speed, hazard, flow direction, model origin and climate change layers) | Environment Agency | OGL v3 | © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right. All rights reserved. |
| Flood warnings and river levels (via FloodRadar) | Environment Agency; Natural Resources Wales; SEPA | OGL v3 | Contains Environment Agency, Natural Resources Wales and SEPA data. |
| Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea: Properties and Postcodes in Areas at Risk | Environment Agency | OGL v3 | © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved. Some of the data in the database has been produced using data licensed from the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, © NERC. © Crown Copyright and Database Rights 2025 OS AC0000807064. |
| Storm overflow event duration monitoring | Environment Agency | OGL v3 | Contains Environment Agency data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| Strategic noise mapping (Round 4) | Defra | OGL v3 | Contains Defra data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| Airport noise maps, all metrics, England Round 4 (15 airports, 2021 flights) | Defra (maps modelled for the airports) | OGL v3 | © Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs copyright and/or database right 2024. Licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| Strategic noise mapping in Wales and Scotland (Round 4) | Welsh Government; Scottish Government (served by SEPA) | OGL v3 | Contains Welsh Government information. © Scottish Government, contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right. |
| Storm overflow spills in Wales and Scotland | Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water and Hafren Dyfrdwy (via The Rivers Trust); Scottish Water | OGL v3 | Produced by The Rivers Trust. © Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water. © Hafren Dyfrdwy. Source data from Scottish Water. |
| Background air quality (Pollution Climate Mapping), the latest year and the six-year trend in nitrogen dioxide and fine particles | Defra UK-AIR | OGL v3 | © Crown copyright, Defra, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| Historic landfill and permitted waste sites (via FloodRadar) | Environment Agency | OGL v3 | Contains Environment Agency data. |
| Public registers for England (Environmental Permitting Regulations: waste operations, installations including intensive pig and poultry farms, and discharges to water for sewage treatment works; sewage works shown once the Environment Agency's terms for that register are confirmed) | Environment Agency | Environment Agency Conditional Licence (special conditions per register, read 7 October 2026) | Waste operations and installations: © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2021. All rights reserved. Discharges to water: © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2022. All rights reserved. |
| Flood risk, planning flood zones and main rivers in Wales (Flood Risk Assessment Wales) | Natural Resources Wales | OGL v3 | Contains Natural Resources Wales information © Natural Resources Wales and database right. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right. |
| Flood maps (river, surface water and coastal likelihood) in Scotland | Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) | OGL v3 | © SEPA 2025; this SEPA product is licensed under the Open Government Licence version 3.0. |
| Radon: Indicative Atlas of Radon in Northern Ireland (2015, reissued 2022) | British Geological Survey; Geological Survey of Northern Ireland; UK Health Security Agency | OGL v3 | Contains British Geological Survey materials © UKRI 2022. Radon Potential classification UK Health Security Agency © Crown copyright 2022. |
| Radon: Indicative Atlas of Radon in Great Britain | British Geological Survey; UK Health Security Agency | OGL v3 | Contains British Geological Survey materials © UKRI 2022. Radon Potential classification UK Health Security Agency © Crown copyright 2022. |
| Fire statistics incident level datasets: the low level geography dataset (every incident attended in England by financial year, incident type and 2021 small area, from 2010-11), counted by neighbourhood | Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government | OGL v3 | Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| Shrink–swell clay, national overview (GeoSure 5 km hex grid, version 8): used only to move the subsidence questions up, never shown as a finding | British Geological Survey | OGL v3 | Contains British Geological Survey materials © UKRI 2019. Contains OS data © Crown copyright 2020. |
| Overhead lines on pylons (OS OpenMap – Local) | Ordnance Survey | OGL v3 | Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right. |
| Buildings and roads for which way the garden faces (OS OpenMap – Local), with the plot from HM Land Registry's INSPIRE Index Polygons (above) | Ordnance Survey | OGL v3 | Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right. |
| Airport noise maps, Round 3 (2016 flights): Belfast International and George Best Belfast City | DAERA, via OpenDataNI | OGL v3 | Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| Airport noise maps, Round 3 (2016 flights): Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh and Glasgow | Scottish Government (served by SEPA) | OGL v3 | © Crown copyright. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| Road and rail noise maps, Round 3 (Northern Ireland) | DAERA, via OpenDataNI | OGL v3 | Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| Main rivers (England) | Environment Agency (Statutory Main River Map) | OGL v3 | © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| 132 kV and 33 kV overhead lines and substations (central southern England and the north of Scotland) | SSEN Distribution | CC BY 4.0 | SSEN Distribution: SSEN Overhead Lines and SSEN Substation Data (data.ssen.co.uk), Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. |
| Grid, bulk supply and primary substations (North East and Yorkshire) | Northern Powergrid | Northern Powergrid Open Data Licence v1.0 | Supported by Northern Powergrid Open Data. |
| Electricity network operator (DNO licence) areas | National Energy System Operator (NESO) | NESO Open Data Licence v1.0 | Supported by National Energy SO Open Data. |
| Power lines, pylons and substations in Northern Ireland, mapped by OpenStreetMap volunteers (not the network operator; voltage where tagged) | OpenStreetMap contributors (via Geofabrik) | ODbL 1.0 | © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database Licence. |
| Power lines, pylons and substations from UK Power Networks, Electricity North West, Northern Powergrid, SSEN Transmission and NIE Networks (when switched on) | Each network operator | CC BY 4.0; Northern Powergrid Open Data Licence v1.0 | Each dataset is credited with its operator, name, link and date of last update in the report. |
| Coal mining development risk areas | Mining Remediation Authority (formerly the Coal Authority) | OGL v3 | © Mining Remediation Authority. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right. |
Planning, heritage and countryside
| Data | Publisher | Licence | Credit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, listed buildings, tree preservation zones, brownfield land, heritage at risk, protected landscapes and nature sites | planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG, councils, Historic England, Natural England) | OGL v3 | Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Conservation areas, listed buildings and Heritage at Risk: © Historic England. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right; the date the data was obtained is in each report's planning note, and the most publicly available up to date Historic England GIS Data can be obtained from HistoricEngland.org.uk. Article 4 directions, tree preservation zones and brownfield land: © Crown copyright and database right. © Natural England copyright. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right. |
| Nationally significant infrastructure projects (roads, railways, energy, grid lines, water, ports and airports) and their application boundaries | Planning Inspectorate (National Infrastructure Planning) | OGL v3 | Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| Renewable Energy Planning Database (solar, wind, battery storage and energy-from-waste schemes) | Department for Energy Security and Net Zero | OGL v3 | Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| London planning applications | Greater London Authority, Planning London Datahub | London Datastore terms | Contains data from the Planning London Datahub. The GLA cannot warrant the quality or accuracy of this data, and this report is not endorsed by the GLA. |
| Planning applications outside London (from council planning registers) | UK PlanIt (planit.org.uk), built by Andrew Speakman | PlanIt's terms: "You can use the data for anything you want. No attribution is necessary." | Planning applications recorded by UK PlanIt (planit.org.uk), with thanks to Andrew Speakman. |
| Net additional dwellings by local authority district and region (live tables 122 and 118), dwelling stock estimates (live table 125) and the Housing Delivery Test | Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government | OGL v3 | Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| Long-term empty homes: vacant dwellings by local authority district (live table 615) | Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government | OGL v3 | Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| Fly-tipping incidents and actions reported by local authorities in England | Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs | OGL v3 | Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| New dwellings completed and dwelling stock estimates by local authority (Wales) | Welsh Government (StatsWales) | OGL v3 | Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| New build completions (all sectors and the social sector) and dwelling stock by tenure, by local authority (Scotland) | Scottish Government, Housing Statistics for Scotland | OGL v3 | Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| New dwelling completions by district council, from council building control (Northern Ireland) | Land & Property Services (Department of Finance), Northern Ireland New Dwelling Statistics | OGL v3 | Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| Housing stock by district council (Northern Ireland Housing Statistics, Table 1.2; source LPS) | Department for Communities (Northern Ireland) | OGL v3 | Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| Welsh heritage designations | Cadw | OGL v3 | Contains Cadw data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| National parks, Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty (Wales) and National Scenic Areas (Scotland) | Natural Resources Wales; Scottish Government | OGL v3 | Contains Natural Resources Wales information © Natural Resources Wales and database right. © Scottish Government, contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right. |
| Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty and Areas of Special Scientific Interest (Northern Ireland) | Northern Ireland Environment Agency (DAERA), via OpenDataNI | OGL v3 | Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| Vacant and derelict land (Scotland, when switched on) | Improvement Service Spatial Hub (Scottish Vacant and Derelict Land Survey) | OGL v3 | Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| Scottish heritage designations | Historic Environment Scotland | OGL v3 | Contains Historic Environment Scotland data. |
| Northern Ireland listed buildings and monuments | Department for Communities (OpenDataNI) | OGL v3 | Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| Blue plaques and other commemorative plaques (positions, inscriptions and the people, places and events they commemorate) | Open Plaques (openplaques.org) and its volunteer curators | Public domain (PDDL 1.0) | Plaque data from Open Plaques (openplaques.org), dedicated to the public domain under the Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and License 1.0; attribution is not required, and we give it with thanks. |
| Development corporation boundaries (public investment nearby) | planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG) | OGL v3 | Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| London Opportunity Areas (public investment nearby; indicative boundaries) | Greater London Authority, London Datastore | OGL v3 | Greater London Authority. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right. |
| Town Deals (Towns Fund) and Future High Streets Fund awards (a reviewed list), placed by ONS built-up areas (December 2022) | MHCLG (GOV.UK); Office for National Statistics | OGL v3 | Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0; contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right. |
| Levelling Up Fund successful bids, rounds 1 to 3 (a reviewed list, by council area) | MHCLG (GOV.UK); Office for National Statistics (council names and codes) | OGL v3 | Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| Freeport and Investment Zone tax sites (a reviewed list): names, designations and reliefs from HMRC's maps and the designating regulations; each placed at the postcode, address or grid reference an official source gives | HMRC (GOV.UK); legislation.gov.uk; the location sources named in the list; Ordnance Survey (Code-Point Open) | OGL v3 | Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right. |
| Pride in Place Programme places (a reviewed list) and their default boundaries: ONS built-up areas (December 2022) and NRS localities (2020); neighbourhood codes found with the House of Commons Library MSOA Names | MHCLG (GOV.UK); Office for National Statistics; National Records of Scotland; House of Commons Library | OGL v3; Open Parliament Licence v3.0 (MSOA names) | Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0; contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right. Copyright National Records of Scotland. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. |
| Landlord licensing areas: Nottingham's selective licensing designation boundary (its additional HMO licensing covers the whole city, from the council's notice) | Nottingham City Council (Open Data Geoportal) | OGL v3 | Nottingham's selective licensing designation boundary: Nottingham City Council, released under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. |
| Landlord licensing areas: Bristol's discretionary licensing areas with their dates (its 2024 schemes from the council's page) | Bristol City Council (Open Data Bristol) | OGL v3 | Bristol's discretionary licensing areas: Bristol City Council, contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database rights 2023 Ordnance Survey AC0000807971. |
| Landlord licensing areas: ward boundaries for Bristol's 2024 selective licensing wards (Bishopston and Ashley Down, Cotham, Easton), Brighton & Hove's selective licensing wards (Kemptown, Moulsecoomb & Bevendean, Queen's Park, Whitehawk & Marina; Regency and Central Hove), Bexley's selective licensing ward (Belvedere), Newham's selective and additional HMO licensing wards (22 of its 24 wards), Redbridge's selective licensing wards (17 of its 22 wards), Waltham Forest's selective licensing wards (20 of its 22 wards), Wandsworth's selective licensing wards (7 of its 22 wards), Hackney's selective licensing wards (17 of its 21 wards), Havering's selective licensing wards (7 of its 20 wards), Haringey's selective licensing wards (14 of its 21 wards), Brent's selective licensing wards (21 of its 22 wards), Merton's selective and additional HMO licensing wards (7 of its 20 wards), Islington's selective licensing wards (10 of its 17 wards), Southwark's selective licensing wards (19 of its 23 wards), Lambeth's selective licensing wards (23 of its 25 wards) and Croydon's selective licensing wards (14 of its 28 wards) | Office for National Statistics (Open Geography Portal) | OGL v3 | Ward boundaries: Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2025. |
| Landlord licensing areas: ward boundaries for Lewisham's selective licensing wards (16 of its 18 wards as they were before May 2022: the ONS Wards (December 2021) edition, because the council's notice names the wards of that time) | Office for National Statistics (Open Geography Portal) | OGL v3 | Ward boundaries: Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2021. |
| Landlord licensing areas: Westminster's selective licensing wards (its additional HMO licensing covers the whole city, from the council's announcement) | Westminster City Council (its published map layer) | None stated (permission requested) | Westminster's selective licensing wards: Westminster City Council (its published map layer). |
| Landlord licensing areas: Brighton & Hove's designations, their wards and dates, from the council's notices (the ward outlines from the ONS ward boundaries above; its additional HMO licensing covers the whole city) | Brighton & Hove City Council (its notices) | Facts stated with a link | Brighton & Hove's licensing designations (their wards and dates): Brighton & Hove City Council's published notices. |
| Landlord licensing areas: Salford's selective licensing areas with their dates | Salford City Council (its published map layer) | None stated (permission requested) | Salford's selective licensing areas: Salford City Council (its published map layer). |
| Landlord licensing areas: Gedling's selective licensing areas (Phase 1a and Phase 2) | Gedling Borough Council (its published map layers) | None stated (permission requested) | Gedling's selective licensing areas: Gedling Borough Council (its published map layers). |
| Landlord licensing areas: Leeds' selective licensing area (East South and West Leeds, with its start date) | Leeds City Council (its published map layer) | None stated (permission requested) | Leeds' selective licensing area: Leeds City Council (its published map layer). |
| Landlord licensing areas: Southend-on-Sea's selective licensing area (Selective Licensing 2021, with its start and end dates) | Southend-on-Sea City Council (its published map layer) | None stated (permission requested) | Southend-on-Sea's selective licensing area: Southend-on-Sea City Council (its published map layer). |
| Landlord licensing areas: Bexley's designation, its ward and dates, from the council's notice (the ward outline from the ONS ward boundaries above) | London Borough of Bexley (its notice) | Facts stated with a link | Bexley's licensing designation (its ward and dates): London Borough of Bexley's published notice. |
| Landlord licensing areas: Newham's designations, their wards and dates, from the council's notices (the ward outlines from the ONS ward boundaries above) | London Borough of Newham (its notices) | Outlines: ONS ward boundaries, Open Government Licence v3.0. Dates and ward names: facts from the council's notice, stated with a link | Newham's licensing designations (their wards and dates): London Borough of Newham's published notices. |
| Landlord licensing areas: Redbridge's designations, their wards and dates, from the council's notices (the ward outlines from the ONS ward boundaries above; its additional HMO licensing covers the whole borough) | London Borough of Redbridge (its notices) | Outlines: ONS ward boundaries, Open Government Licence v3.0. Dates and ward names: facts from the council's notice, stated with a link | Redbridge's licensing designations (their wards and dates): London Borough of Redbridge's published notices. |
| Landlord licensing areas: Waltham Forest's designations, their wards and dates, from the council's notice and designation document (the ward outlines from the ONS ward boundaries above; its additional HMO licensing covers the whole borough) | London Borough of Waltham Forest (its notices) | Outlines: ONS ward boundaries, Open Government Licence v3.0. Dates and ward names: facts from the council's notice, stated with a link | Waltham Forest's licensing designations (their wards and dates): London Borough of Waltham Forest's published notices. |
| Landlord licensing areas: Wandsworth's designations, their wards and dates, from the council's notices (the ward outlines from the ONS ward boundaries above; its additional HMO licensing covers the whole borough) | London Borough of Wandsworth (its notices) | Outlines: ONS ward boundaries, Open Government Licence v3.0. Dates and ward names: facts from the council's notice, stated with a link | Wandsworth's licensing designations (their wards and dates): London Borough of Wandsworth's published notices. |
| Landlord licensing areas: Hackney's designations, their wards and dates, from the council's notices (the ward outlines from the ONS ward boundaries above; its additional HMO licensing covers the whole borough) | London Borough of Hackney (its notices) | Outlines: ONS ward boundaries, Open Government Licence v3.0. Dates and ward names: facts from the council's notice, stated with a link | Hackney's licensing designations (their wards and dates): London Borough of Hackney's published notices (in The London Gazette, and on the council's page "Check which property licence you need"). |
| Landlord licensing areas: Havering's designations, their wards and dates, from the council's notices (the ward outlines from the ONS ward boundaries above; its additional HMO licensing covers all its wards) | London Borough of Havering (its notices) | Outlines: ONS ward boundaries, Open Government Licence v3.0. Dates and ward names: facts from the council's notice, stated with a link | Havering's licensing designations (their wards and dates): London Borough of Havering's published notices. |
| Landlord licensing areas: Haringey's designations, their wards and dates, from the council's notices (the ward outlines from the ONS ward boundaries above; its additional HMO licensing covers the whole borough) | London Borough of Haringey (its notices) | Outlines: ONS ward boundaries, Open Government Licence v3.0. Dates and ward names: facts from the council's notice, stated with a link | Haringey's licensing designations (their wards and dates): London Borough of Haringey's published notices. |
| Landlord licensing areas: Brent's designations, their wards and dates, from the council's notices (the ward outlines from the ONS ward boundaries above; its additional HMO licensing covers the whole borough) | London Borough of Brent (its notices) | Outlines: ONS ward boundaries, Open Government Licence v3.0. Dates and ward names: facts from the council's notice, stated with a link | Brent's licensing designations (their wards and dates): London Borough of Brent's published notices. |
| Landlord licensing areas: Merton's designations, their wards and dates, from the council's notices (the ward outlines from the ONS ward boundaries above) | London Borough of Merton (its notices) | Outlines: ONS ward boundaries, Open Government Licence v3.0. Dates and ward names: facts from the council's notice, stated with a link | Merton's licensing designations (their wards and dates): London Borough of Merton's published notices. |
| Landlord licensing areas: Islington's designations, their wards and dates, from the council's notices (the ward outlines from the ONS ward boundaries above; its additional HMO licensing covers the whole borough) | London Borough of Islington (its notices) | Outlines: ONS ward boundaries, Open Government Licence v3.0. Dates and ward names: facts from the council's notice, stated with a link | Islington's licensing designations (their wards and dates): London Borough of Islington's published notices (the additional HMO designation in The London Gazette). |
| Landlord licensing areas: Southwark's designations, their wards and dates, from the council's notices (the ward outlines from the ONS ward boundaries above; its additional HMO licensing covers the whole borough) | London Borough of Southwark (its notices) | Outlines: ONS ward boundaries, Open Government Licence v3.0. Dates and ward names: facts from the council's notice, stated with a link | Southwark's licensing designations (their wards and dates): London Borough of Southwark's published notices. |
| Landlord licensing areas: Lambeth's designations, their wards and dates, from the council's notices (the ward outlines from the ONS ward boundaries above; its additional HMO licensing covers the whole borough) | London Borough of Lambeth (its notices) | Outlines: ONS ward boundaries, Open Government Licence v3.0. Dates and ward names: facts from the council's notice, stated with a link | Lambeth's licensing designations (their wards and dates): London Borough of Lambeth's published notices. |
| Landlord licensing areas: Croydon's designations, their wards and dates, from the council's notices (the ward outlines from the ONS ward boundaries above; its additional HMO licensing covers the whole borough) | London Borough of Croydon (its notices) | Outlines: ONS ward boundaries, Open Government Licence v3.0. Dates and ward names: facts from the council's notice, stated with a link | Croydon's licensing designations (their wards and dates): London Borough of Croydon's published notices. |
| Landlord licensing areas: Lewisham's designations, their wards and dates, from the council's notices (the ward outlines from the ONS ward boundaries above; its additional HMO licensing covers the whole borough) | London Borough of Lewisham (its notices) | Outlines: ONS ward boundaries, Open Government Licence v3.0. Dates and ward names: facts from the council's notice, stated with a link | Lewisham's licensing designations (their wards and dates): London Borough of Lewisham's published notices. |
| Landlord licensing national rules, stated in our words with a link: mandatory HMO licensing in England and Wales, Rent Smart Wales, landlord registration and the HMO licence in Scotland, landlord registration in Northern Ireland | GOV.UK; Rent Smart Wales; mygov.scot; nidirect | OGL v3 (GOV.UK, mygov.scot); facts stated with a link (Rent Smart Wales, nidirect) | Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| Public rights of way (designated footpaths, bridleways, restricted byways and byways open to all traffic, with their council path numbers where mapped), mapped by OpenStreetMap volunteers, checked against the plot | OpenStreetMap contributors (via Geofabrik) | ODbL 1.0 | © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database Licence. |
| Public rights of way, the councils' own working copies of their definitive maps (Derbyshire, Cambridgeshire, Powys, Sheffield, Northumberland, Wiltshire, Surrey and Bracknell Forest), North Yorkshire Council (its published rights of way data, which the council says is for information only and is not an extract of the definitive map) and Cornwall Council (its rights of way data, which the council says was captured from the Definitive Map onto a larger scale, is for information and general use only and is not the legal record): kind and path number only | Derbyshire County Council; Cambridgeshire County Council; Powys County Council; Sheffield City Council; Northumberland County Council; Wiltshire Council; Surrey County Council; Bracknell Forest Council; North Yorkshire Council; Cornwall Council | OGL v3 | Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026 (Sheffield City Council's data: Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database rights 2024; Surrey County Council's data: This dataset contains data derived in part from Ordnance Survey data © Crown Copyright and database rights 2026). |
Crime, roads and transport
| Data | Publisher | Licence | Credit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Street-level crime, outcomes and anti-social behaviour | Police.uk (Home Office) | OGL v3 | Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| Police recorded crime by Community Safety Partnership, quarterly by offence group from April 2020 (shown for councils whose police force publishes no street-level crime to Police.uk), with the ONS Local Authority District to Community Safety Partnership to PFA lookup (April 2025) | Home Office; Office for National Statistics | OGL v3 | Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| Road safety (STATS19) and traffic counts | Department for Transport | OGL v3 | Contains Department for Transport data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| Local road maintenance ratings (each English highway authority and Transport for London, red, amber or green overall and on condition, spend and best practice), with each authority's ONS code from DfT's ratings map | Department for Transport | OGL v3 | Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| Road condition statistics: local A roads, B and C roads and unclassified roads where maintenance should be considered, by council, region and England (tables RDC0120, RDC0121, RDC0130, RDC0131) | Department for Transport | OGL v3 | Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| Resident parking permit zones: Camden's controlled parking zones (outlines, codes, names and controlled hours) | London Borough of Camden (Camden Open Data) | OGL v3 | Camden's controlled parking zones: London Borough of Camden, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2025. |
| Resident parking permit zones: York's residents' priority parking zones (outlines, codes and area names) | City of York Council (York Open Data; the council's map server) | OGL | York's residents' priority parking zones: City of York Council, licensed under the Open Government Licence. © Crown copyright and database rights 2017 Ordnance Survey 100020818. |
| Resident parking permit zones: Hackney's controlled parking areas (outlines, zone letters and controlled hours as the council writes them) | London Borough of Hackney (the council's map server) | OGL v3 | Hackney's controlled parking zones: London Borough of Hackney. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| Resident parking permit zones: Edinburgh's controlled parking zones and priority parking areas (outlines and codes; the layer holds no hours) | City of Edinburgh Council (Open Spatial Data Portal; the council's map server) | OGL v3 | Edinburgh's controlled parking zones and priority parking areas: Copyright City of Edinburgh Council, contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2024. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| Local authority road network condition in Scotland (Scottish Transport Statistics, tables 4.6a and 4.6b, from the Scottish Road Maintenance Condition Survey) | Transport Scotland | OGL v3 | Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| Street works and road works planned, in progress and completed in England: works category, dates, traffic management and the kind of promoter (Street Manager open data, monthly permit archives) | Department for Transport (Street Manager) | OGL v3 | Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| Road works planned and in progress in Scotland: works category, dates, working days, traffic management and the kind of promoter (the daily disruptions extract) | Scottish Road Works Register (Office of the Scottish Road Works Commissioner) | OGL v3 | Scottish Road Works Register (Office of the Scottish Road Works Commissioner), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| Road collisions and traffic counts (Northern Ireland) | Police Service of Northern Ireland; Department for Infrastructure, via OpenDataNI | OGL v3 | Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| Airport locations in Northern Ireland (Translink bus stop list) | Translink, via OpenDataNI | OGL v3 | Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| Stops, stations and airport locations (NaPTAN) | Department for Transport | OGL v3 | Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| Airport passengers (aviation statistics tables AVI0102 and AVI0109, from Civil Aviation Authority data) | Department for Transport | OGL v3 | Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| Estimates of station usage | Office of Rail and Road | OGL v3 | Source: Office of Rail and Road. |
| Train timetables (SCHEDULE feed), counted as trains an hour at the nearest station | Network Rail Infrastructure Limited | OGL v3 | Contains information of Network Rail Infrastructure Limited licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| Bus and train timetables in Northern Ireland (Metro, Glider, Ulsterbus and Goldline; NI Railways and Enterprise), counted as buses an hour near the home and trains from the nearest station | Translink, via OpenDataNI | OGL v3 | Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| Bus timetables (Bus Open Data Service), counted as buses an hour near the home | Department for Transport (Bus Open Data Service), from the operators' registered timetables | OGL v3 ("You do not need a license to use the data") | Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| Transport Connectivity Metric (experimental statistics): public transport, walking, cycling and driving scores by small area, England and Wales | Department for Transport | OGL v3 (per the GOV.UK page; the file's own licence field reads "TBA") | Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| Minutes by public transport to a GP, hospital, schools, supermarket and pharmacy, and jobs within reach (Great Britain Accessibility Indicators 2023, AI23) | Urban Big Data Centre, University of Glasgow (J. Rafael Verduzco Torres and David McArthur), via Zenodo | OGL v3 | Great Britain Accessibility Indicators 2023 (AI23), Urban Big Data Centre, University of Glasgow, doi:10.5281/zenodo.14778265, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| Return travel times by public transport to everyday services in Wales (Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation, WIMD 2025, access to services indicators) | Welsh Government (StatsWales) | OGL v3 | Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0; contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right. |
| Scottish Statistics Postcode Lookup (postcodes to 2011 data zones, for the travel minutes in Scotland) | National Records of Scotland | OGL v3 | Source: National Records of Scotland, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right; contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right. |
| Journey planning | Transport for London | TfL open data terms | Powered by TfL Open Data. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database rights. |
| Journeys outside London, planned by us over the bus, coach, tram, metro and ferry timetables (Bus Open Data Service) and the train timetable (Network Rail SCHEDULE feed), with the workplace placed at its postcode (Code-Point Open) | Department for Transport (Bus Open Data Service); Network Rail Infrastructure Limited; Ordnance Survey | OGL v3 | Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains information of Network Rail Infrastructure Limited licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right. |
| London stations and their lines, step-free records and facilities, typical crowding at Underground and Elizabeth line stations, bus stops and routes, Tube and DLR timetables, and Santander Cycles docking stations (Unified API) | Transport for London | TfL transport data service terms | Powered by TfL Open Data. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database rights 2016 and Geomni UK Map data © and database rights [2019]. |
| Step-free access at London stations, street to platform and platform to train (TfL step-free station data) | Transport for London | TfL transport data service terms | Powered by TfL Open Data. |
| How busy Overground and DLR stations are: people entering and leaving by quarter hour on a typical autumn weekday (TfL NUMBAT) | Transport for London | TfL transport data service terms | Powered by TfL Open Data. |
| Public Transport Accessibility Levels (PTAL 2023, 100 m grid) | Transport for London (GIS Open Data Hub) | OGL v3 | Contains Transport for London data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2025. |
| Dockless bike and e-scooter parking places (City of London) | City of London Corporation | OGL v3 | Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| Car parks within 500 m and the nearest public car park, in Getting to work (amenity=parking only: its kind, who may use it, and whether a charge and its spaces are recorded; never a name or a number of spaces; car parks mapped as private, lock-up garages and single bays left out) | OpenStreetMap contributors (via Geofabrik) | ODbL 1.0 | © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database Licence. |
| Anonymised MOT tests and results (cars tested at stations in each postcode area: premium brands, age at test, yearly mileage, electric and hybrid shares; our own counts) | Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency | OGL v3 | Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| Driving charge and emission zone boundary: London's Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) | Greater London Authority (London Datastore), author Transport for London | OGL v2 | London-wide ULEZ boundary: Greater London Authority (London Datastore), from Transport for London. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v2.0. |
| Driving charge and emission zone boundary: London's Congestion Charge zone | Transport for London (TfL's ArcGIS Online) | OGL v3 | Congestion Charge zone boundary: Transport for London, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| Driving charge and emission zone boundary: Bath's Clean Air Zone (class C) and Bristol's Clean Air Zone (class D) | West of England Combined Authority Open Data Portal, from Bath and North East Somerset Council | OGL v3 | Bath and Bristol Clean Air Zone boundaries: West of England Combined Authority, from Bath and North East Somerset Council and Bristol City Council, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| Driving charge and emission zone boundary: Birmingham's Clean Air Zone (class D) | Transport for West Midlands, for Birmingham City Council | OGL v3 | Birmingham Clean Air Zone boundary: Birmingham City Council, published by Transport for West Midlands, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| Driving charge and emission zone boundary: Bradford's Clean Air Zone (class C) | Bradford Council (Spatial Data Hub) | OGL v3 | Bradford Clean Air Zone boundary: City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| Driving charge and emission zone boundary: Sheffield's Clean Air Zone (class C) | Sheffield City Council (Open Data) | OGL | Sheffield Clean Air Zone boundary: Sheffield City Council, released under the Open Government Licence. |
| Driving charge and emission zone boundary: Portsmouth's Clean Air Zone (class B) | Portsmouth City Council, the map on its Cleaner Air Portsmouth website | Not stated (permission asked) | Portsmouth Clean Air Zone boundary: Portsmouth City Council's map on cleanerairportsmouth.co.uk (reuse terms not stated; permission asked). |
| Driving charge and emission zone boundary: the Newcastle and Gateshead Clean Air Zone (class C) | Newcastle City Council and Gateshead Council, the map on their Breathe Clean Air website | Not stated (permission asked) | Newcastle and Gateshead Clean Air Zone boundary: the councils' map on breathe-cleanair.com (reuse terms not stated; permission asked). |
| Driving charge and emission zone boundary: Oxford's Zero Emission Zone (pilot) | Oxfordshire County Council (Oxfordshire Maps Online) | Not stated (permission asked) | Oxford Zero Emission Zone boundary: Oxfordshire County Council's map layer (reuse terms not stated; permission asked). |
| Driving charge and emission zone boundary: Glasgow's Low Emission Zone | Glasgow City Council (GlasgowGIS open data) | OGL v3 | Glasgow Low Emission Zone boundary: Glasgow City Council, supplied under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2022, Ordnance Survey Licence number 100023379. |
| Driving charge and emission zone boundary: Edinburgh's Low Emission Zone | City of Edinburgh Council (Open Spatial Data Portal) | OGL v3 | Edinburgh Low Emission Zone boundary: Copyright City of Edinburgh Council, contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2023. Supplied under the Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| Driving charge and emission zone boundary: Dundee's Low Emission Zone | Dundee City Council (DCC Public GIS Portal) | Not stated (permission asked) | Dundee Low Emission Zone boundary: Dundee City Council's map layer (reuse terms not stated; permission asked). |
| Driving charge and emission zone boundary: Aberdeen's Low Emission Zone | Aberdeen City Council (its ArcGIS Online) | Not stated (permission asked) | Aberdeen Low Emission Zone boundary: Aberdeen City Council's map layer (reuse terms not stated; permission asked). |
| Driving charges as each operator states them, quoted with the day read (6 October 2026) and a link: TfL, the councils running each zone, and mygov.scot for Scotland's Low Emission Zone penalties | Transport for London; Bath and North East Somerset, Birmingham, Bradford, Bristol, Durham, Newcastle, Gateshead, Oxfordshire, Portsmouth and Sheffield councils; the Scottish Government (mygov.scot) | Quoted facts, linked | Charges from each operator's own page, as read on the day stated; mygov.scot content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0. |
Schools, health and everyday life
| Data | Publisher | Licence | Credit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Schools (Get Information about Schools, including independent schools and establishment links to predecessor schools), exam results (key stages 2 and 4), school applications and offers, and Ofsted inspections (state-funded and non-association independent schools) | Department for Education; Ofsted | OGL v3 | Contains Department for Education and Ofsted data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| Fee-paying schools in Wales and Scotland (List of independent schools in Wales; Independent schools in Scotland: register), placed by postcode | Welsh Government; Scottish Government; Ordnance Survey (Code-Point Open) | OGL v3 | Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right. |
| Registered independent schools in Northern Ireland (the list does not say which charge fees or which are special schools), placed by postcode | Department of Education (Northern Ireland); postcodes.io (ONS Postcode Directory) | OGL v3 | Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| Early years register (nurseries and childminders, and Montessori and forest-school nurseries by name) | Ofsted | OGL v3 | Contains Ofsted data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| Welsh and Scottish school locations | Welsh Government; Scottish Government | OGL v3 | Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| Schools in Northern Ireland (school level enrolment) | Department of Education (Northern Ireland) | OGL v3 | Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| GP practices, ratings and registered patients | NHS England; Care Quality Commission; OHID Fingertips | OGL v3 | Contains NHS England data. Contains CQC information. Contains OHID Fingertips data. Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| Green space (OS Open Greenspace) | Ordnance Survey | OGL v3 | Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right. |
| Community spaces within 1 km: public libraries in England (Libraries Basic Dataset, static libraries open as at 31 December 2023, with positions added by Libraries Hacked from the ONS Postcode Directory and OS Open UPRN; never the operating organisation or contact details), and community centres, village halls and church halls as mapped on OpenStreetMap (amenity=community_centre; libraries in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland as mapped there too); allotments are OS Open Greenspace's | Arts Council England; Libraries Hacked; OpenStreetMap contributors (via Geofabrik) | OGL v3; ODbL 1.0 | Source: Arts Council England. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2024. Contains Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right 2024. Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database Licence. |
| Tree cover in England (National Trees Outside Woodland map v1, from Environment Agency lidar flown 2017 to 2023, with National Forest Inventory woodland 2022), against the council and region (ONS local authority district boundaries, May 2025) | Forest Research; Forestry Commission; Office for National Statistics | OGL v3 | © Forestry Commission copyright and/or database right 2025. Contains, or is based on, information supplied by the Forestry Commission. © Crown copyright and database right 2024 Ordnance Survey AC0000814847. Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2025. |
| Tree cover in Wales (the Welsh Government's Trees Outside of Woodlands, made by Forest Research from the Wales lidar survey, March 2026, with National Forest Inventory woodland Wales 2024), against the council and Wales (ONS local authority district boundaries, May 2025) | Welsh Government (DataMapWales); Forest Research; Forestry Commission; Office for National Statistics | OGL v3 | Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. National Forest Inventory: © Forestry Commission copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2025. Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2025. |
| OS Terrain 50 (ground height above sea level on a 50 m grid, July 2026 edition), with where each council's homes stand: Census 2021 households at output area centres and, in Scotland, NRS occupied homes by data zone | Ordnance Survey; Office for National Statistics; National Records of Scotland | OGL v3 | Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: National Records of Scotland. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| Hospitals in England with CQC overall ratings (care directory), and A&E departments (Emergency Care Data Set, experimental statistics) | Care Quality Commission; NHS England; NHS England Organisation Data Service | OGL v3 | Contains CQC information. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| Hospitals and major emergency departments in Wales | NHS Wales Organisation Data Service; StatsWales (Welsh Government, data from Digital Health and Care Wales) | OGL v3 | Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| Hospitals and A&E sites in Scotland | Public Health Scotland | OGL v3 | Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| A&E waiting times: the share of patients seen within 4 hours and over 12 hours each month, by A&E (England: Emergency Care Data Set performance, experimental statistics; Wales: emergency department performance; Scotland: monthly A&E activity and waiting times) | NHS England; Welsh Government (StatsWales); Public Health Scotland | OGL v3 | Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| Shops, cafés, pubs, takeaways (fish and chips, curry houses, fast food), gyms, pharmacies, EV chargers and places of worship; lifestyle places (yoga and pilates studios, dog groomers, tennis and padel courts, vegan-friendly cafés and restaurants, wine bars, bike shops, farm and organic shops); for What is on the high street, vape and tobacco shops, bookmakers, pawnbrokers, money lenders, and shops mapped as vacant or as former shops | OpenStreetMap contributors (via Geofabrik) | ODbL 1.0 | © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database Licence. |
| Map background | Ordnance Survey (OS Maps API, Light style) where configured; otherwise OpenFreeMap, OpenMapTiles and OpenStreetMap contributors | OS OpenData, OGL v3; ODbL 1.0 (OpenStreetMap data) | Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right. OpenFreeMap © OpenMapTiles. Data from OpenStreetMap. |
| Late-night venues within 200 m (Environmental checks, Noise): nightclubs, and bars and pubs whose opening hours as mapped run past midnight, with the other pubs and bars by whether hours are mapped (counts only, never a name) | OpenStreetMap contributors (via Geofabrik) | ODbL 1.0 | © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database Licence. |
| Licensing register and licensable activities with their hours, Camden (a pilot): premises licensed past midnight for alcohol, music or dancing, or hot food only, within 200 m of a Camden home (only the licence reference, type, status, location and hours are fetched: never a premises, licensee, supervisor or agent name, or an address) | London Borough of Camden Council (Camden Open Data) | OGL v3 | Camden licensing register and licensable activities: London Borough of Camden Council, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0; contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026; © Crown copyright and database rights 2026 OS 100019726. |
| Broadband and mobile coverage | Ofcom | Ofcom terms of use (free reproduction, accurate and credited) | © Ofcom copyright, Connected Nations. |
| Food and drink premises (openings, brands, and restaurants, cafés, pubs and takeaways within 800 m in What is on the high street; hygiene ratings are not shown) | Food Standards Agency | OGL v3 | Food hygiene data: Food Standards Agency, Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| Register of gambling premises: betting shops and arcades within 800 m in What is on the high street, from weekly snapshots keeping only each premises' activity, licensing authority and postcode (once its reuse terms are confirmed; not shown until then) | Gambling Commission | Reuse terms being confirmed (data.gov.uk lists the Open Government Licence; the Commission's own site states none) | Gambling Commission, register of gambling premises. The Commission cannot provide any assurances on the completeness and accuracy of this data. |
| Short-term lets: entire homes and rooms listed on Airbnb in London, Greater Manchester, Bristol and Edinburgh (map points counted by us per 500 m and per 100 homes; no listing, host or price is kept) | Inside Airbnb (insideairbnb.com), not associated with or endorsed by Airbnb | CC BY 4.0 | Inside Airbnb data, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0); adapted: our own counts within 500 m and per 100 homes. |
| Short-term let licences in operation by council and data zone (Scotland) | Scottish Government, Short-Term Lets Licensing Statistics Scotland | OGL v3 | Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| Homes by 2022 data zone (occupied homes, for short-term lets per 100 homes in Scotland) | National Records of Scotland, Small Area Statistics on Households and Dwellings | OGL v3 | Source: National Records of Scotland, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. |
Photos of the area
| Data | Publisher | Licence | Credit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Photos near the home (each credited to its photographer) | Wikimedia Commons contributors | CC BY, CC BY-SA, CC0 or public domain, per photo | Each photo shows its author, licence and a link to its page on Wikimedia Commons. |
| Geograph Britain and Ireland photos (when switched on) | Geograph contributors | CC BY-SA 2.0 | Each photo shows its photographer, the licence and a link to its Geograph page. |
| Street-level photos (when switched on) | Mapillary contributors | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Each photo shows its contributor, the licence and a link to it on Mapillary. |
People and neighbourhoods
| Data | Publisher | Licence | Credit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Census 2011 and 2021 | Office for National Statistics (Nomis); NRS; NISRA | OGL v3 | Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| Northern Ireland Multiple Deprivation Measure 2017 | NISRA, via OpenDataNI | OGL v3 | Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| Prisons, immigration removal centres and short-term holding facilities | GOV.UK (Ministry of Justice, Home Office); Scottish Prison Service; Department of Justice (NI) | OGL v3 | Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| English Indices of Deprivation 2019 and 2025 | MHCLG | OGL v3 | Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| Health state life expectancy estimates for Middle layer Super Output Areas, England and Wales (2019 to 2023), and Life expectancy for local areas of the UK (2001 to 2003 to 2022 to 2024) | Office for National Statistics | OGL v3 | Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| Company registrations (Free Company Data Product): new companies, local businesses by line of business and year, lifestyle businesses by neighbourhood (yoga and pilates, dog and pet care, architects and interiors, coffee, florists, wine, fitness; names read to sort them, never kept), companies registered at the home's address (counts only), and the line of business, state and age of companies that own titles near the home | Companies House | OGL v3 | Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0 (Companies House). Company names are not shown. |
| Business Register and Employment Survey (open access, via Nomis): jobs at workplaces by neighbourhood, council, region and nation, and by broad industry | Office for National Statistics | OGL v3 | Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| Claimant Count (via Nomis): people claiming Jobseeker's Allowance and Universal Credit claimants required to look for work, by 2021 neighbourhood, council, region and nation, monthly from January 2013 | Office for National Statistics | OGL v3 | Source: Office for National Statistics (Claimant Count, from Nomis) licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| Personal Independence Payment: people aged 16 to 64 receiving PIP (PIP Cases with Entitlement to 2019 and from 2019, Stat-Xplore), by 2021 neighbourhood, council, region and nation in England and Wales, quarterly from April 2013 | Department for Work and Pensions | OGL v3 | Source: Department for Work and Pensions, Stat-Xplore. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| Local Council Tax Support claimants (live table on local government finance): pensioners and working-age claimants by council in England, quarterly from June 2015 | Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government | OGL v3 | Source: Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, Local Council Tax Support claimants live table. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| Personal well-being estimates by local authority (Annual Population Survey): life satisfaction, worthwhile, happiness and anxiety, April 2011 to March 2012 to April 2022 to March 2023 | Office for National Statistics | OGL v3 | Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| Mid-year population estimates: people moving into and out of each borough | Office for National Statistics | OGL v3 | Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| Local area migration and mid-year population estimates: people moving into and out of each Scottish council | National Records of Scotland | OGL v3 | Source: National Records of Scotland. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| Components of population change: people moving into and out of each Northern Ireland council; Census 2021 ages and households for benefit shares | NISRA | OGL v3 | Source: NISRA, www.nisra.gov.uk. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| Schools, pupils and their characteristics: pupils by ethnic group and first language | Department for Education | OGL v3 | Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| Welsh school census (PLASC): pupils aged 5 and over by ethnic background and first language | Welsh Government, StatsWales | OGL v3 | Source: Welsh Government, school census (PLASC), StatsWales. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| Universal Credit and Pension Credit in Northern Ireland (Universal Credit statistics; Benefits Statistics Summary) | Department for Communities (Northern Ireland) | OGL v3 | Source: Department for Communities (Northern Ireland). Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| Asylum support by local authority (immigration system statistics) | Home Office | OGL v3 | Source: Home Office, Immigration system statistics. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| Universal Credit, children in low-income families, National Insurance number registrations to adult overseas nationals, Housing Benefit and Pension Credit (Stat-Xplore) | Department for Work and Pensions (children in low-income families with HMRC) | OGL v3 | Source: Department for Work and Pensions, Stat-Xplore. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. |