Compare every local authority by deprivation, welfare, crime, health and local context
Search an area, click a district, or open the highest-pressure list. The selected area card shows the rank, main pressure signals, data caveats and share tools.
Enter a postcode to see a live Police.uk outcome summary for that area and the nearest matched NHS trust from the fortnightly NHS provider snapshot. Crime data carries caveats. NHS matching is trust-level, not every hospital site.
England postcodes can show both NHS and crime. Wales can show crime only. Scotland and Northern Ireland will show why Police.uk is unavailable. NHS trust search uses the latest fortnightly trust snapshot.
Police.uk gives a useful local crime signal, but not a clean charge or conviction rate. It shows crime volume plus the latest matched published outcome category where one exists, and some postcodes return thinner matching than others.
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Data sources:
■ English IMD 2025 — GOV.UK MHCLG (Oct 2025)
■ Claimant Count — NOMIS (dated monthly snapshot)
■ Benefit and disability pressure — DWP Stat-Xplore (monthly cache)
■ Recorded crime — Home Office CSP snapshot (cached, England only while Wales matching is added)
■ IMD relative rank movement — matched 2019 and 2025 councils
■ Comparable UK pressure — ONS life expectancy and NOMIS claimant rates
■ Recorded crime layer — latest matched Home Office CSP snapshot for England; unavailable areas fail closed ● Cached snapshots — refreshed by the site pipeline
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Map layerComparable pressure
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Comparable pressureClaimant rate and the mean of male and female life expectancy each contribute 50%. The same formula applies across nations. Missing required inputs are not ranked. Other layers remain separate.
PIP dataPIP cases are sourced from DWP Stat-Xplore. PIP measures are displayed separately and are not included in the composite score.
CoverageEnglish IMD is official. Recorded crime uses the latest matched Home Office CSP snapshot for England. Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland show only layers with source-backed local data.
How the rankings work
Comparable pressure uses the same source-backed indicators and weights in every nation. Areas missing a required input are not ranked. It is a relative comparison, not a measure of change over time.
National deprivation measures remain separate. Birth statistics and housing affordability cover England and Wales. Birth figures are descriptive and excluded from comparable pressure. Council service spending covers England; full-service and district councils have separate layers. Figures are actual expenditure in cash terms, not budgets or an assessment of service quality.
A change in rank is not the same as a change in living conditions. School demographics show population shares; shares alone do not establish speed of change or pressure on services.