About Domesday

Only from official open data: recorded crime from the police, the English Indices of Deprivation 2025 from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, and small-area income estimates from the Office for National Statistics. Postcodes and place names are looked up with postcodes.io, a community-run service built on Office for National Statistics and Ordnance Survey open data.

The sources page lists each one, with its edition and a link to the original.

Each section uses the latest edition its source has published, so the dates differ. Crime covers the most recent 12 months the police have published, which runs about two months behind. Deprivation is the 2025 edition. Income is for the year to March 2023. Every section states its own period.

Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland each publish their own measure of deprivation, and the four cannot be compared with one another. Rather than mix them, Domesday covers England only.

A rate needs to know how many people could be affected, and crime does not respect who lives where: a city centre records far more crime than a quiet suburb mostly because far more people pass through it. So Domesday shows the number of crimes recorded within 2 miles, says plainly that it is a count, and does not rank places against each other on crime.

Crime, deprivation and income measure different things over different areas. Adding them into one number would mean inventing a formula that no official source uses. Domesday shows each figure as it was published and leaves the judgement to you.

Every neighbourhood in England is ranked from most to least deprived, then split into ten equal groups called deciles. “Among the 30% most deprived” means a neighbourhood falls in the three most deprived groups. It describes how a place compares with the rest of England, not how deprived it is by any fixed standard.

Income figures for small areas are estimated with a statistical model, not counted from tax records, so each comes with a range the true figure is likely to fall within. When that range includes the England median, Domesday says the area is not clearly different from it, rather than above or below.

Each source publishes its figures for a different size of area. Crime is counted within 2 miles of the postcode. Deprivation describes a neighbourhood of typically 1,000 to 3,000 residents, and income a wider area of typically 5,000 to 15,000. Each section says which it covers, and the map on every area page draws all three.

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No. Domesday is an independent site. It uses data the government publishes for anyone to reuse, under the Open Government Licence, but it is not run or endorsed by any government department.