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Data & sources

Name: Boroughly area data: UK neighbourhood prices, safety and amenities
Creator: Boroughly
License: https://boroughly.net/api/

What Boroughly's numbers actually are, where each one comes from, and which are still estimates. Updated whenever the data pipeline runs.

Read this before relying on a figure. Purchase prices in London, Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol and Leeds are medians of HM Land Registry recorded sales in each area's postcode district. Safety is a relative rank of police.uk recorded crime. Rents and the other life scores are indicative estimates. Edinburgh and Glasgow show official city-level figures only. None of these figures values an individual property.

Status by dataset

City	Dataset	Status	What that means	Source
London	prices	Sourced	Median sale price per postcode district from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, covering 278 of 278 areas. Sales from 2025-01-01 to 2026-09-30. Areas with fewer than 30 recorded sales keep an indicative estimate and are flagged individually. Rents remain indicative estimates.	HM Land Registry Price Paid Data
London	crime	Sourced	Safety scores are a relative 2–10 rank of police.uk street-level recorded crime within about a mile of each area centre (2026-06), compared across every English area Boroughly covers. Counts are not population-adjusted, so busy centres with many visitors rank lower than their resident risk alone would suggest.	data.police.uk (Open Government Licence v3.0)
London	schools	Estimated	School scores are composite judgements, not derived from DfE performance tables.	-
London	transport	Sourced	London journey times are fetched live from the TfL Journey Planner API at request time.	Transport for London Unified API
Manchester	prices	Sourced	Median sale price per postcode district from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, covering 42 of 42 areas. Sales from 2025-01-01 to 2026-09-30. Areas with fewer than 30 recorded sales keep an indicative estimate and are flagged individually. Rents remain indicative estimates.	HM Land Registry Price Paid Data
Manchester	crime	Sourced	Safety scores are a relative 2–10 rank of police.uk street-level recorded crime within about a mile of each area centre (2026-06), compared across every English area Boroughly covers. Counts are not population-adjusted, so busy centres with many visitors rank lower than their resident risk alone would suggest.	data.police.uk (Open Government Licence v3.0)
Manchester	schools	Estimated	Indicative school scores, not current official performance or admissions data.	-
Manchester	transport	Estimated	Approximate journeys from area centre; not live transit travel times.	-
Birmingham	prices	Sourced	Median sale price per postcode district from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, covering 54 of 55 areas. Sales from 2025-01-01 to 2026-09-30. Areas with fewer than 30 recorded sales keep an indicative estimate and are flagged individually. Rents remain indicative estimates.	HM Land Registry Price Paid Data
Birmingham	crime	Sourced	Safety scores are a relative 2–10 rank of police.uk street-level recorded crime within about a mile of each area centre (2026-06), compared across every English area Boroughly covers. Counts are not population-adjusted, so busy centres with many visitors rank lower than their resident risk alone would suggest.	data.police.uk (Open Government Licence v3.0)
Birmingham	schools	Estimated	Indicative school scores, not current official performance or admissions data.	-
Birmingham	transport	Estimated	Approximate journeys from area centre; not live transit travel times.	-
Bristol	prices	Sourced	Median sale price per postcode district from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, covering 53 of 53 areas. Sales from 2025-01-01 to 2026-09-30. Areas with fewer than 30 recorded sales keep an indicative estimate and are flagged individually. Rents remain indicative estimates.	HM Land Registry Price Paid Data
Bristol	crime	Sourced	Safety scores are a relative 2–10 rank of police.uk street-level recorded crime within about a mile of each area centre (2026-06), compared across every English area Boroughly covers. Counts are not population-adjusted, so busy centres with many visitors rank lower than their resident risk alone would suggest.	data.police.uk (Open Government Licence v3.0)
Bristol	schools	Estimated	Indicative school scores, not current official performance or admissions data.	-
Bristol	transport	Estimated	Approximate journeys from area centre; not live transit travel times.	-
Edinburgh	prices	No data	Editorial preview only. Registers of Scotland reported a 2025–26 £275,000 Edinburgh city-wide median, but no neighbourhood-level price or rent observations have been loaded. The city median is not applied to individual neighbourhoods.	Registers of Scotland, Property Market Report 2025–26
Edinburgh	crime	No data	No scored safety ranking. Scotland needs separately validated Police Scotland statistics; England/Wales police.uk area data cannot be reused.	-
Edinburgh	schools	No data	No school quality scoring. City of Edinburgh Council catchment rules depend on an exact property address.	https://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/catchmentmap
Edinburgh	transport	No data	Only approximate neighbourhood-centre location markers; no official Edinburgh transit journey times have been computed.	-
Leeds	prices	Sourced	Median sale price per postcode district from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, covering 39 of 39 areas. Sales from 2025-01-01 to 2026-09-30. Areas with fewer than 30 recorded sales keep an indicative estimate and are flagged individually. Rents remain indicative estimates.	HM Land Registry Price Paid Data
Leeds	crime	Estimated	Indicative safety values until the next police.uk refresh (node build-safety.js) ranks Leeds alongside the other English cities.	-
Leeds	schools	Estimated	Indicative school scores, not current DfE performance or admissions data.	-
Leeds	transport	Estimated	Approximate journeys to Leeds city centre; not live journey-planner times.	-
Glasgow	prices	No data	Editorial explorer only. Registers of Scotland reported a 2025–26 £185,000 Glasgow city median; no neighbourhood-level price or rent observations are loaded and the city median is not applied to neighbourhoods.	Registers of Scotland, Property Market Report 2025–26
Glasgow	crime	No data	No scored safety ranking. police.uk does not cover Scotland; Police Scotland data would need separate validation.	-
Glasgow	schools	No data	No school scoring. Catchments depend on the exact address and the council (Glasgow City, East Dunbartonshire or East Renfrewshire).	-
Glasgow	transport	No data	Approximate neighbourhood-centre markers only; no journey times computed.	-

What the statuses mean

Sourced

Derived directly from a named primary source by an automated pipeline, with the fetch date recorded. Reproducible - run the script and you get the same number.

Estimated

An indicative figure entered into the dataset rather than derived from records. Directionally useful for comparing areas, but not a measurement.

No data

The area exists in the system with a name and location only. Nothing is published for it.

Where the sourced data comes from

As each dataset moves from estimated to sourced, it is pulled from these, all of which are free and openly licensed:

HM Land Registry Price Paid Data - every residential sale in England and Wales. For every scored area in London, Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol and Leeds we take the median of standard (category A) sales in its postcode district (January 2025 to September 2026), not the mean, because a single high sale distorts an average badly. Areas with fewer than 30 sales keep an indicative figure. Open Government Licence v3.0.
police.uk Street-Level Crime API - recorded street crime within about a mile of each area centre for one month, ranked across all English areas and scaled from 2 (most recorded crime) to 10 (least). Counts are not population-adjusted, so busy centres with many visitors rank lower than their resident risk alone would suggest. Open Government Licence v3.0.
MHCLG council tax levels - average Band D council tax for 2026/27 by council, including police, fire and average parish precepts.
ONS Price Index of Private Rents - the local-authority two-bedroom average used to anchor the indicative Leeds rent model, and the Greater Glasgow figure shown on the Glasgow explorer.
DfE school performance tables - planned source for school scores, which are still indicative.
Transport for London Unified API - live journey times for eligible London map routes, fetched on demand.
Registers of Scotland - Scottish property-market data, distinct from the HM Land Registry Price Paid dataset for England and Wales. Edinburgh (£275,000) and Glasgow (£185,000) have sourced 2025–26 city-wide medians but no validated neighbourhood medians on Boroughly. Glasgow source methodology.
UK House Price Index - mix-adjusted average prices for the City of Edinburgh local authority, which is a different geographical area and metric from the Registers of Scotland NRS-city median. The Edinburgh explorer references the 2026-07 £303,965 provisional average, never as a neighbourhood price. Scottish source methodology.
Scottish Government private rent statistics - the £1,356/month year to September 2025 Lothian broad rental market mean for two bedrooms, not Edinburgh-neighbourhood rent.
City of Edinburgh Council - current address-specific school catchment information and council tax bands, used as official guidance links rather than neighbourhood ranking scores.

How the scores are built

Where a score is sourced, it's a relative rank across every area we cover: a 10 for safety means the area recorded among the fewest street crimes in our dataset that month, not that it is objectively safe. We publish the transformation rather than a judgement, so you can disagree with the weighting and still trust the underlying number.

What the data can't tell you

Averages hide enormous street-level variation - two roads five minutes apart can differ by hundreds of thousands of pounds. Crime statistics reflect what was reported, not what happened. School catchments move annually. Community sentiment scores are opinion, collected imperfectly. Every one of these is a reason to visit an area at different times of day before deciding, and none of them is a reason to skip that step.

Corrections

If a figure looks wrong, it may well be. Tell us and we'll check it against the source and publish a correction.