Resolve the place
Match the entry to postcode, ward and local-authority identifiers.
UK postcode and place evidence
Know the place.
Check the evidence.
Resolve any UK postcode, district, town or neighbourhood, then see official indicators at their 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.
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.
- Lancashire 626 schools
- Kent 597 schools
- Essex 557 schools
- Hertfordshire 532 schools
- Hampshire 530 schools
- Birmingham 443 schools
- Derbyshire 419 schools
- Norfolk 419 schools
- Staffordshire 410 schools
- Surrey 399 schools
- Devon 372 schools
- Lincolnshire 361 schools
- North Yorkshire 350 schools
- Nottinghamshire 344 schools
- Suffolk 321 schools
- Oxfordshire 309 schools
- Gloucestershire 299 schools
- Leicestershire 287 schools
- West Sussex 286 schools
- Cornwall 280 schools
Care services by local authority
Every CQC registered location, grouped as the regulator records it.
- Kent 1,672 locations
- Essex 1,575 locations
- Hampshire 1,436 locations
- Surrey 1,392 locations
- Lancashire 1,258 locations
- Birmingham 1,224 locations
- Hertfordshire 1,174 locations
- West Sussex 988 locations
- Westminster 924 locations
- Norfolk 878 locations
- Staffordshire 843 locations
- Devon 833 locations
- Nottinghamshire 798 locations
- Leeds 786 locations
- Lincolnshire 710 locations
- East Sussex 702 locations
- Derbyshire 695 locations
- Suffolk 692 locations
- Gloucestershire 686 locations
- Oxfordshire 676 locations
Area evidence briefs
Local authorities where enough joined evidence is held to publish.
- Birmingham 1,144,919 residents
- Leeds 811,956 residents
- Cornwall 570,305 residents
- Sheffield 556,521 residents
- Buckinghamshire 553,078 residents
- Manchester 551,938 residents
- Bradford 546,412 residents
- County Durham 522,068 residents
- Wiltshire 510,333 residents
- Liverpool 486,088 residents
- Bristol, City of 472,465 residents
- Kirklees 433,216 residents
- West Northamptonshire 425,725 residents
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole 400,196 residents
- Cheshire East 398,772 residents
- Croydon 390,719 residents
- Barnet 389,344 residents
- Dorset 379,579 residents
- Leicester 368,571 residents
- Ealing 367,115 residents
Every registered care provider, A–Z · Methodology and data sources · About Place Checker
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.
EvidenceSourceDateLevel
Area resolutionPostcodes.io (ONS Postcode Directory) · OpenStreetMap NominatimLive lookupUK
People and homesONS Census area statisticsCensus 2021Local authority
School inspectionsOfsted state-funded schools30 Jun 2026England
Transport accessNaPTAN public transport nodes25 Jul 2026Approx. 10 km box
Road safetyDfT reported road collisions2024 finalLocal authority
Registered charitiesCharity Commission register25 Jul 2026Postcode district
Care servicesCQC regulated locations directory12 Aug 2026England · postcode district / CQC authority
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.