Great Britain postcode checker and local area information

Check a Great Britain postcode.
Know the place.

Look up Census demographics, sold house prices, school inspections and care-service evidence for a postcode, district, town or neighbourhood in England, Scotland or Wales—at the source's real geographic level, without a hidden score or sales pitch.

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How it works

One lookup. Several honest geographic levels.

A postcode is a route to evidence, not a claim that every dataset describes that exact street.

Resolve the place

Match the entry to postcode, ward and local-authority identifiers.

Join official evidence

Present only held data with a recorded publication basis.

Keep limits visible

Dates, denominators, geographic levels and gaps remain beside the figure.

Browse without searching

Every published record has a way in.

21,957 school inspection records, 57,023 registered care locations, 5,037 registered providers and 150 area briefs. The largest directories are listed here; the section hubs below them carry the complete lists.

Schools by local authority

Ofsted’s latest recorded outcome for every school in England.

All local authorities with school records

Care services by local authority

Every CQC registered location, grouped as the regulator records it.

All local authorities with care records

Area evidence briefs

Local authorities where enough joined evidence is held to publish.

All published area briefs

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Evidence ledger

Sources are part of the answer.

Place Checker is independent and is not endorsed by the named public bodies. Official source links and current coverage limits stay visible.

Evidence sources, publication dates and geographic levels
Evidence	Source	Date	Level
Area resolution	Postcodes.io (GB open postcode data) · OpenStreetMap Nominatim	Live lookup	Great Britain
People and homes	ONS Census area statistics	Census 2021	Local authority
School inspections	Ofsted state-funded schools	30 Jun 2026	England
Transport access	NaPTAN public transport nodes	25 Jul 2026	Approx. 10 km box
Road safety	DfT reported road collisions	2024 final	Local authority
Registered charities	Charity Commission register	25 Jul 2026	Postcode district
Care services	CQC regulated locations directory	12 Aug 2026	England · postcode district / CQC authority
Planning constraints	Planning Data for England	21–24 Aug 2026 snapshots + point check	Resolved coordinate · England
Flood monitoring	Environment Agency	Unified R2 snapshot	England · station / national warning snapshot
Broadband	Ofcom Connected Nations	Upstream transfer gate	Not published · official checker linked

Method before ranking

There is no “best place” number.

A combined score would hide value judgements and mix unlike geographies. The product keeps measures separate, labels missing joins as gaps rather than zero, and never treats a dated inspection as a guarantee.

Shared catalogue checked 2026-08-28: 88 candidate data layers listed. Catalogue presence is not publication approval; only separately approved public projections may be shown.