Datasets
Public datasets
About datasets
Every dataset in the Atlas is official statistics, published by a government department, a statistics office or a public body, and almost all of it is free to reuse under the Open Government Licence. The Atlas links each one back to its publisher, so you can always check a figure against the original.
Health, education, housing and policing are run separately in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, and each nation often publishes its own figures. Where a dataset covers only some nations, its coverage below says so, and where the nations count something in different ways, their figures shouldn't be compared directly.
Each dataset is matched to the geography and boundary release its figures were published on, so an area's value is always drawn on the lines it was counted for.
All datasets
People and places
Ethnicity
The ethnic groups residents identified with in the 2021 Census, for every local authority in England and Wales. It shows how the make-up of the population differs from place to place.
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Census ethnicity estimates by local authority.
Land Area
The official size of each local authority in hectares, measured by the Office for National Statistics. Land area is what population density is calculated from, so it excludes lakes, reservoirs and other inland water.
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Standard Area Measurements by local authority district across the UK: land area excluding inland water, alongside the extent of the realm and inland water, in hectares.
Population
Population estimates for the much smaller electoral wards of England and Wales, broken down by age and sex. The Atlas uses it for its population density, age and gender maps, which show how people are spread within a council area rather than across the country.
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Ward population estimates for mid-2022. Newer ONS ward estimates use May 2025 boundaries, which are not yet mapped in the atlas.
Population (Constituency)
How many people live in each Westminster constituency in England and Wales, on the boundaries used from the 2024 general election onwards. Useful for putting election results and other constituency figures in context.
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Mid-year usual resident population for Westminster parliamentary constituencies in England and Wales, on the constituencies first contested in July 2024.
Population (Local Authority)
How many people live in each local authority across the UK, estimated every year by the Office for National Statistics between censuses. It's the standard yardstick for comparing places of different sizes, and many per-person figures in the Atlas are worked out from it.
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UK local authority population estimates by single year of age and sex, mid-2011 to mid-2024.
Qualifications
The highest qualification held by residents aged 16 and over in the 2021 Census, from no qualifications up to degree level. The Atlas maps the share of residents with a degree or equivalent.
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Highest level of qualification breakdown by local authority district for England and Wales (Census 2021).
Health and care
Adult social care activity in England
How many adults receive long-term social care support from their council in England, such as care at home or in a care home, split between working-age adults and people aged 65 and over.
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Clients receiving long-term support during the year, across ages 18 to 64 and 65 and over.
Adult Social Care Outcomes Framework, England
How people who use adult social care in England rate their quality of life, scored out of 24 from a national survey. It's one of the main ways the government compares how well council care services work.
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Social care-related quality-of-life score for local authorities, out of 24.
Life Expectancy
How long a baby born today could expect to live, and how many of those years in good health, if current death rates held. Figures are averaged over three years for each local area, and are one of the clearest measures of health inequality between places.
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Life expectancy and healthy life expectancy estimates by local area across the UK.
Life Expectancy Series
Life expectancy at birth for men and women in each local area, going back to the early 2000s. It shows how the gap between places has changed over two decades, with confidence intervals so small differences aren't over-read.
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Life expectancy at birth for UK local areas, by sex, for every three-year period from 2001 to 2003 onwards, with 95% confidence intervals.
NHS Waiting Times
How long patients in England have been waiting for planned hospital treatment after a GP referral. Waits are reported for each integrated care board, the NHS body that plans services for an area.
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Referral to treatment waiting times by Integrated Care Board for England.
Education
Attainment 8 Gap
How far disadvantaged pupils in each English local authority trail their classmates at GCSE. Disadvantaged pupils are those eligible for free school meals in recent years or who have been in care.
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How far non-disadvantaged pupils are ahead of disadvantaged pupils at Key Stage 4, by local authority district for England. Derived from the published disadvantage breakdown as a plain difference in Attainment 8, not the Department's rank-based disadvantage gap index.
School Performance (KS4, Constituency)
The same GCSE measures as the local authority figures, grouped instead by Westminster constituency, so results can be compared with each MP's area.
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Key Stage 4 performance measures (GCSE results) by Westminster parliamentary constituency for England, on 2024 review boundaries.
School Performance (KS4)
GCSE results for state-funded schools in England, grouped by local authority. It includes Attainment 8, the average grade across a pupil's best eight subjects, and Progress 8, how much progress pupils made compared with others who started secondary school at a similar level.
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Key Stage 4 performance measures (GCSE results) by local authority district for England, with the 2018/19 to 2024/25 back series.
Work and the economy
Claimant Count
The share of working-age residents claiming unemployment-related benefits, Universal Credit or Jobseeker's Allowance, in each local authority. It's published monthly, so it's the most up-to-date local view of unemployment.
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Claimants of Universal Credit and Jobseeker's Allowance by local authority district for Great Britain.
Income
Typical annual pay for employees who live in each local authority in England, from the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings. The Atlas uses the median, the middle value, so a few very high earners don't skew it.
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Earnings estimates by local authority of residence for England.
Jobs
How many jobs are based in each local authority, counted where people work rather than where they live. Places with large city centres or business parks can have more jobs than residents.
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Total jobs by local authority district, 2011 to 2024, on April 2023 codes: employee jobs, self-employment jobs, government-supported trainees and HM Forces, counted at the workplace and rounded to the nearest thousand. Great Britain is complete for every year; Northern Ireland is published for 2020 to 2022 only.
Regional gross domestic product: ITL1 regions
The size of the economy in each English region and the three other nations, measured as gross domestic product and gross value added. These figures underpin comparisons of regional prosperity.
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Balanced gross value added at current basic prices and gross domestic product at current market prices, in £ million, for the twelve ITL1 regions and nations, 1998 to 2023. Extracted from tables 1 and 5 of the published workbook, which restates the whole series on January 2025 ITL codes.
Regional gross domestic product: ITL2 regions
Gross domestic product and gross value added for the middle tier of UK statistical regions, which are mostly counties or groups of counties and city regions.
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Balanced gross value added at current basic prices and gross domestic product at current market prices, in £ million, for the forty-six ITL2 regions, 1998 to 2023. Extracted from tables 1 and 5 of the published workbook, which restates the whole series on January 2025 ITL codes.
Regional gross domestic product: ITL3 regions
Gross domestic product and gross value added for the most detailed UK statistical regions, mostly individual or paired local authorities. It's the finest level at which official GDP is published.
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Balanced gross value added at current basic prices and gross domestic product at current market prices, in £ million, for the 182 ITL3 areas, 1998 to 2023. Extracted from tables 1 and 5 of the published workbook, which restates the whole series on January 2025 ITL codes.
UK business: activity, size and location
How many businesses are based in each local authority, counting those registered for VAT or running a PAYE payroll. It gives a sense of the size and spread of local economies.
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VAT and/or PAYE based enterprises by local authority district, summed across published broad industries.
Unemployment
Estimates of the share of economically active people who are out of work and looking for a job, modelled for each local authority from survey data. The series ended in 2022.
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Final model-based unemployment rate estimates by local authority for Great Britain. ONS discontinued this series in August 2022.
Workplace income
Typical annual pay for jobs based in each local authority in England, whoever does them. Comparing it with pay by where people live shows which places people commute into for better-paid work.
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Earnings estimates by local authority of workplace for England.
Poverty and deprivation
Child Poverty
The share of children under 16 in each local authority living in families on relatively low incomes, below 60% of the UK median, before housing costs. It's the government's main local measure of child poverty.
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Children aged under 16 living in relative low-income families, before housing costs, by local authority across the United Kingdom.
Fuel Poverty
The share of households in each small neighbourhood of England in fuel poverty: living in a home with a poor energy efficiency rating and left below the poverty line after paying for energy.
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Fuel poverty estimates by Lower-layer Super Output Area in England.
Indices of Multiple Deprivation
The English Indices of Deprivation rank every small neighbourhood in England from most to least deprived, combining income, employment, education, health, crime, housing and living environment. It's the standard way to find the most deprived areas in England.
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Deprivation scores, ranks and deciles by 2021 small area (LSOA) for England.
Northern Ireland Multiple Deprivation Measure
Northern Ireland's measure of deprivation, ranking each of its small areas from most to least deprived across income, employment, health, education, access to services, living environment and crime.
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Deprivation scores, ranks and deciles by super output area for Northern Ireland.
Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation
Scotland's index of deprivation, ranking each of its small areas, called data zones, from most to least deprived. It's widely used to target funding and services in Scotland.
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Published deprivation ranks, deciles and quintiles by data zone for Scotland.
Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation
Wales's own index of deprivation, ranking every small neighbourhood in Wales across income, employment, health, education, access to services, housing, community safety and environment. Its ranks can't be compared directly with England's.
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Deprivation scores, ranks and deciles by lower super output area for Wales.
Housing
House price to residence-based earnings ratio
How many years of typical local earnings it would take to buy a typical home in each local authority. A ratio of 10 means the median home costs ten times the median full-time salary of residents.
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Ratio of the median price paid for existing dwellings to median gross annual residence-based earnings, by local authority district.
House Prices
The prices homes sold for in each ward of England and Wales, based on Land Registry sales records, going back to 1995. The Atlas shows the median price, the price in the middle of all sales.
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Median and mean house prices paid by ward for England and Wales. This was the final ONS ward-level edition.
Housing supply: net additional dwellings
How much the number of homes in each English local authority grew over the year, counting new builds and conversions, minus demolitions. It's the government's main measure of housing supply.
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Net additional dwellings by English local authority district.
Planning applications in England
How many planning applications each local planning authority in England received in a quarter, from house extensions to major developments.
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Planning applications received by English local planning authority during 2026 Q1.
Temporary Accommodation
How many households in each English council area are living in temporary accommodation, such as hostels or bed and breakfasts, while they wait for a settled home. Rates are shown per 1,000 households.
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Households in temporary accommodation by English local authority, including households with children.
Elections
EU Referendum Results
Official results of the 2016 referendum on the UK's membership of the European Union, for each counting area, which were mostly local authorities.
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EU referendum results by local authority counting area.
EU Referendum Results (Constituency Estimates)
Estimates of how each Westminster constituency voted in the 2016 EU referendum. Votes were counted by local authority, so these figures are modelled by the political scientist Chris Hanretty rather than official.
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EU referendum result estimates by Westminster parliamentary constituency.
General Election Results
Results of recent UK general elections for every Westminster constituency: votes for each party, the winner, turnout and majority.
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General election results by parliamentary constituency.
General Election Results, 1918-2019
General election results for every constituency back to 1918, grouped into broad party families so a century of results can be compared.
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General election results by constituency for every UK general election from 1918 to 2019, aggregated to broad Conservative/Liberal/Labour/Nationalist/Other vote shares.
Local Election Results
Results of council elections in each ward of England and Wales: votes for each party, the winners and turnout where it's recorded.
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Ward-level local election results for England and Wales. Party votes count each party's highest-polling candidate in a ward, the House of Commons Library's method for vote share in multi-member wards. The 2016–2019 archive has no electorate or turnout, and excludes Scottish STV results. The 2023 workbook has no ward codes, so they are matched by exact name to the ONS May 2023 ward list.
Councils
Council Tax levels in England
The average Band D council tax bill in each English council area, including precepts for police, fire and parish councils. Band D is the standard band used to compare council tax between areas.
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Average area Band D council tax in England, including relevant precepts.
Local authority collected waste management
How much household and other waste English councils collect, and how much of it is recycled, composted or sent to landfill.
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Local-authority collected waste in England; collection authorities only to avoid double counting.
Local authority revenue expenditure and financing
What English councils plan to spend on their services this financial year, from their budget returns to government. The Atlas maps spending on education services.
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English local-authority revenue budget estimates; the Atlas map shows total education-services expenditure.
Transport
Car Availability
How many cars or vans households have, from the 2021 Census. The Atlas maps the share of households with no car, which is highest in big cities with good public transport.
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Cars or vans available to each household, by local authority district for England and Wales (Census 2021). Shares are of households.
Public electric vehicle chargers by local authority
How many public charging devices for electric vehicles there are in each local authority, counted every quarter by the Department for Transport.
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Publicly available electric-vehicle chargers by local authority.
Travel to Work
How people in work usually travel to their job, by car, public transport, bike or on foot, and how many worked mainly from home, from the 2021 Census.
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How people in employment travel to their place of work, by local authority district for England and Wales (Census 2021). Shares are of people in employment.
Connectivity
Broadband Coverage
The share of homes and businesses in each local authority that can get each speed of fixed broadband, from superfast to full fibre gigabit, from Ofcom's annual Connected Nations report.
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Fixed broadband coverage by local authority district across the UK.
Mobile Coverage
How much of each local authority gets 4G and 5G signal, from Ofcom's Connected Nations report, both at premises and across the landmass, from all mobile operators and from at least one.
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4G and 5G coverage by local authority district across the UK, reported as the share of premises and landmass reached by all four mobile operators and by at least one.
Energy and environment
Air Quality
Modelled levels of the main air pollutants, nitrogen dioxide and fine particulate matter (PM2.5 and PM10), averaged over each local authority. These pollutants are linked to heart and lung disease.
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Modelled 2024 annual mean background NO2, PM10 and PM2.5 by local authority, averaged from Defra's 1x1 km PCM maps, with Defra's population-weighted PM2.5.
Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Estimated greenhouse gas emissions produced within each local authority, broken down by sector, such as transport, homes, industry and agriculture. The Atlas shows emissions per person so areas of different sizes can be compared.
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Territorial greenhouse gas emissions by local authority across the United Kingdom, 2005 to 2024, broken down by sector. Aggregated from the published sub-sector and gas detail to a sector total in kt CO2e.
Subnational electricity consumption
How much electricity homes and businesses in each local authority in Great Britain use each year, from meter readings.
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Metered electricity consumption by local authority in Great Britain, 2015 to 2024, split between domestic and non-domestic meters and reported in GWh. Domestic meters are counted on both standard and Economy 7 tariffs. The series is restated on 2025 local authority codes; earlier published years are on the boundaries in force at the time and are not included.
Subnational gas consumption
How much mains gas homes and businesses in each local authority in Great Britain use each year, from meter readings, adjusted for the weather.
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Metered gas consumption by local authority in Great Britain, 2015 to 2024, split between domestic and non-domestic meters and reported in GWh. Figures are weather corrected, as the publisher's headline series is, so a cold year is not read as a rise in demand. The series is restated on 2025 local authority codes; earlier published years are on the boundaries in force at the time and are not included.
Crime and safety
Crime
Crimes recorded by the police in each local authority of England and Wales, by type of offence. Recorded crime depends partly on how often crimes are reported, so it isn't a perfect measure of how much crime happens.
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Police recorded crime by local authority district for England and Wales.
Road Collisions by Local Authority
Road collisions in which someone was injured, as reported to the police, for each local authority in Great Britain, split by how serious the worst injury was.
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Final annual reported road collisions in Great Britain for 2024 and 2025, counted by the local authority DfT assigns each collision to and by the most severe injury the police recorded.