What the data says
Short pieces written from the same national figures behind every area page on this site. Each one starts from something real in the numbers rather than a topic picked in advance.
Every home in the country is aiming at roughly the same number
Current energy scores vary enormously between local authorities. Potential scores barely vary at all. Once you notice that, the map of British housing looks different.
Tower Hamlets scores higher than anywhere in England or Wales, and it barely tried
The borough with the best-performing housing stock in the country got there mostly by being built late. A third of it went up after 2012.
Six councils, one postcode, and no one in charge
PR4 covers 22,229 homes on the Lancashire coast. Fylde has the largest share of them, at 46%. Nobody has a majority.
Forty per cent in Islington, six in Castle Point
Social renting is the tenure where English local authorities differ most sharply from one another, and the gap has almost nothing to do with distance from London.
The two towns where nearly every home sits in a flood zone
Boston is a fenland town. Hull sits at the mouth of an estuary. Both exist in their present shape because centuries of engineering decided the water could be managed rather than avoided, and it still shows in the data.
Why there is no CrierData score
It would be easy to reduce an area to one number out of a hundred. Here is what that number would quietly be deciding on your behalf.
Birmingham has more homes than the smallest thirty authorities combined
349,336 properties in one city. 842 in the Isles of Scilly. Both get the same page, the same checks and the same suppression rule.
Two countries, two rulers, one word
England and Wales both publish an index of multiple deprivation. They are not the same measurement, and a decile in one says nothing about a decile in the other.