ScoreMyStreet helps people research UK postcodes by bringing public data about crime, schools, amenities, housing and environmental factors into one readable report. We aim to make useful local information easier to compare without presenting a score as a guarantee or a replacement for first-hand research.
Platform guide
Straight answers about what ScoreMyStreet measures, where the information comes from and what its results cannot tell you.
ScoreMyStreet is a research tool for exploring UK postcodes. It brings together published information about reported crime, schools, nearby amenities, transport, housing and environmental factors so people can compare areas in one place. It is not an estate agent, a police service or a substitute for visiting an area and doing your own checks.
The platform combines public and third-party datasets. These include Police.uk crime records, Department for Education and Ofsted school information, OpenStreetMap amenity data, Office for National Statistics census data, HM Land Registry transactions and postcodes.io location data. Environmental reports use Environment Agency, DEFRA UK-AIR, Historic England and Planning Data records. Each source has its own coverage and update schedule.
Sources:Police.uk open dataGet Information about SchoolsOpenStreetMapOffice for National StatisticsHM Land Registry
The safety score uses the latest six months of available Police.uk street-crime data for the postcode location. Reported incidents are grouped by category and weighted, so more serious categories affect the score more heavily. The result is converted to a 0–5 score, where a higher number means fewer or less heavily weighted reported incidents in that dataset. It is a ScoreMyStreet calculation, not an official police rating.
Sources:Police.uk data and API
No score can guarantee that. Police data covers reported and published incidents, not every event, and locations may be anonymised. A score describes a recent dataset around a postcode; it does not predict future crime, assess a particular property or account for how safe someone may feel at a certain time of day. Use it as one input alongside local advice, visits and official guidance.
Freshness varies by source. Police.uk publishes monthly data with a normal reporting lag, and ScoreMyStreet uses the latest six published months available to it. Other datasets, such as school ratings, census figures and property transactions, update on different schedules. Reports show dates or coverage periods where the source provides them, so check those before relying on a figure.
You can search UK postcodes, but not every dataset covers every nation or location equally. For example, current flood, listed-building and planning-constraint records on ScoreMyStreet cover England, while HM Land Registry transaction data covers England and Wales. Sparse or unavailable source data is shown as a gap and should not be read as proof that no risk, amenity or record exists.
Sources use different boundaries, search radiuses, publication dates and definitions. A postcode is a delivery area rather than a neighbourhood boundary, and some results are measured from its reference point. Records may also be delayed, withheld, anonymised or absent. ScoreMyStreet reports what its sources return and does not fill a gap by assuming a zero value.
Yes. The comparison tool places two available postcode reports side by side, including safety, schools and nearby amenities. The comparison is useful for spotting differences in the same set of indicators, but it is not a recommendation about where someone should live or invest.
No account is required for public postcode searches, and the core search is free to use. ScoreMyStreet processes the postcode needed to return a report. For details about technical logs, cookies and data handling, read the Privacy Policy.
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