Great Britain postcode checker and local area information
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.
How it works
A postcode is a route to evidence, not a claim that every dataset describes that exact street.
Match the entry to postcode, ward and local-authority identifiers.
Present only held data with a recorded publication basis.
Dates, denominators, geographic levels and gaps remain beside the figure.
New governed coverage in R2
The new regulator and heritage files are held with a field-limited publication policy. These totals describe source coverage; they are not ratings and do not imply that every record is already joined to a postcode result.
Manager names, personal contacts, phone numbers and free-text conditions are excluded from the intended public projection.
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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.
Ofsted’s latest recorded outcome for every school in England.
Every CQC registered location, grouped as the regulator records it.
Local authorities where enough joined evidence is held to publish.
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Evidence ledger
Place Checker is independent and is not endorsed by the named public bodies. Official source links and current coverage limits stay visible.
| 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 |
| Care services | Care Inspectorate services datastore | 31 Jul 2026 | Scotland · national / council area |
| Care services | RQIA registered services open data | 3 Aug 2026 | Northern Ireland · national / town |
| Listed buildings | Historic Environment Scotland listed buildings GIS | 3 Sep 2026 | Scotland · national / council area |
| 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
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.