Data Sources & Attribution

Last updated: April 2026

WhereToMove uses open data published by UK government departments, agencies, and community projects. We are grateful to these organisations for making their data available.

Open Government Licence

Much of the data we use is published under the Open Government Licence v3.0 (OGL). This includes data from the Home Office (police.uk), HM Land Registry, MHCLG, ONS, Defra, DfE, DfT, and TfL. All rights in the original data remain with the Crown or the respective publishing body.

Sources

Street-level crime

Monthly — latest available month shown per query

Street-level crime incidents, crime categories, and neighbourhood-level crime rates.

Provider:: UK Police API (data.police.uk)
Licence:: Open Government Licence v3.0

Property prices

Monthly — transactions dated by completion

Price Paid data for residential property sales in England and Wales.

Provider:: HM Land Registry
Licence:: Open Government Licence v3.0

Deprivation (IMD)

IMD 2025

Index of Multiple Deprivation — ranks for overall deprivation, income, employment, education, health, crime, housing, and living environment at LSOA level.

Provider:: Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government (MHCLG)
Licence:: Open Government Licence v3.0

Demographics

Census 2021

Population, age, ethnicity, and household composition from the ONS 2021 Census via the NOMIS API.

Provider:: Office for National Statistics (ONS)
Licence:: Open Government Licence v3.0

Environmental noise

Strategic Noise Mapping Round 4 (2022)

Road and rail noise levels (Lden, Lnight) modelled under the Environmental Noise Directive.

Provider:: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra)
Licence:: Open Government Licence v3.0

Air quality

Annual modelled background data

Modelled background concentrations of PM2.5, PM10, and NO₂ on a 1 km grid, plus Air Quality Management Areas (AQMA).

Provider:: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra)
Licence:: Open Government Licence v3.0

Broadband coverage

Updated periodically by Ofcom

Maximum predicted download and upload speeds by postcode, across FTTC, superfast, and ultrafast tiers.

Provider:: Ofcom
Licence:: Ofcom open data

Schools & Ofsted ratings

Live register — Ofsted inspection dates vary by school

School name, type, phase, pupil count, and latest Ofsted rating from the GIAS register.

Provider:: Department for Education — Get Information About Schools (GIAS)
Licence:: Open Government Licence v3.0

Public transport stops

Bus, rail, tram, and underground stop locations and identifiers across England.

Provider:: Department for Transport — NaPTAN (National Public Transport Access Nodes)
Licence:: Open Government Licence v3.0

Transport lines & live data

Tube, Overground, Elizabeth line, DLR, and bus line information for London stops.

Provider:: Transport for London (TfL)
Licence:: Open Government Licence v3.0

Boundaries

LSOA, ward, and local authority boundary geometries used for spatial lookups.

Provider:: Office for National Statistics (ONS)
Licence:: Open Government Licence v3.0

Geocoding & place data

Address geocoding via Nominatim and nearby place queries via the Overpass API.

Provider:: OpenStreetMap contributors
Licence:: Open Data Commons Open Database License (ODbL)

Map tiles

Positron light basemap tiles rendered from OpenStreetMap data.

Provider:: OpenStreetMap
Licence:: ODbL (OpenStreetMap data)

Routing

Walking, cycling, and driving travel times and route geometries.

Provider:: OSRM (Open Source Routing Machine)
Licence:: BSD 2-Clause; road data from OpenStreetMap (ODbL)

Postcode lookups

Postcode-to-coordinate lookups, reverse geocoding, and autocomplete.

Provider:: ONS & Ordnance Survey
Licence:: Open Government Licence v3.0

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