An open insight commons for UK places

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Postcode, council, region — get coherent answers grounded in named open data sources. 65 indicators across 10 domains, from deprivation to air quality.

Deprivation score

IMD 2025

Brent ranks highest among peers. Source: MHCLG IMD 2025.

Population trend

ONS APS

Steady growth over the decade. Source: ONS APS.

Green space access

FoE Green Space

Regional variation in green space provision. Source: Friends of the Earth.

What you can ask about

Population 7 indicators Age structure, density, estimates

Deprivation 9 indicators IMD score, domains, rank

Health 7 indicators Life expectancy, long-term illness

Economy 8 indicators Active companies, incorporations

Environment 9 indicators Air quality, green space

Education 4 indicators Attainment, absence, NEET

Crime 3 indicators ASB, burglary, vehicle crime

Housing 5 indicators Tenure, overcrowding, EPC

Infrastructure 9 indicators Transport, broadband, road safety

Civil Society 4 indicators Charities, grants, food banks

How it works

Ask

Type a question in plain English — no menus, no selectors. The model figures out what you're looking for.

Answer

Soundings calls the right tools, pulls the right indicators, and composes a grounded answer with every source cited.

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Compare places, see trends, drill into neighbourhoods. Every number links back to its origin dataset.

The public corpus

Soundings logs every question to a public, open corpus — a record of what communities need to know. Questions are sanitised before publication: postcodes truncated to sector, personal names redacted, small charity names stripped. The corpus is published monthly under CC BY 4.0 as gzipped CSV and JSON Lines.

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