How it works

You tell us a place. We give you honest answers.

Start with a place

Search for a town, city or district. Every place has its own page answering, in plain English, the questions people ask before they move: whether it is a good place to live, what homes cost, what the schools are like, whether it floods, whether it is safe, how well connected it is, whether you can extend a home there, what the area around it is like, and who lives there.

Those answers are free, and each one lives on its own page, so you can read, link or share just the part you need.

Where the data comes from

Our answers are built from public and open data: HM Land Registry for prices, police.uk for crime, Ofsted and the Department for Education for schools, the Environment Agency for flooding, Ofcom for broadband and mobile, each local council for planning, the Office for National Statistics for demographics, and 15 more public sources. Each answer lists its main sources and a data date. See where our data comes from for the full list.

How the answers are written

For each place we gather the figures from those sources into one file of facts. An AI model, Anthropic’s Claude, then writes each answer from that file, in plain English and in our own style, and is told to use nothing else.

Every answer is checked automatically before it goes up. Every number in it has to match a figure in the data, allowing for rounding, and the answers for a place are checked against each other so they do not contradict one another. An answer that fails is rewritten or held back, never published as it stands.

Each page shows two dates. “Data to” is how recent the main data behind it is. “Figures checked” is the day we last confirmed the answer’s figures against that data: when it was written, or later, when we compared it with refreshed data and found nothing that needed changing. If you spot something wrong, our corrections policy says what to do.

What we do not do

We do not sell houses, list properties, or write copy for landlords. Our answers are background reading to help you ask better questions. They are not a survey, a valuation, or legal or financial advice.