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Data status

Live health of every data source behind TrackPostcode.UK, and when each was last refreshed. Nothing is estimated or invented: if a source is down or a dataset is not loaded, its category shows as pending.

Data sources

Geography (postcodes.io)Postcode, outcode and place resolution; answers cached 30 days, probed daily — live fetchLast success 4 hr ago; answered from cache 16 min ago

Climate (Met Office)HadUK-Grid 1 km climate grid; historic stations as fallback — station Sutton BoningtonLast success 1 min ago

Crime (police.uk)Recorded street-level crime - England and Wales — month 2026-08, 382 crimesLast failure just now; last success 3 min ago

Crime, Scotland (statistics.gov.scot)Annual recorded crime per council; new edition each autumn — period 2025/2026Last success 16 hr ago

House prices (HM Land Registry)UK House Price Index, imported daily — month 2026-08Last success 16 hr ago

Employment (ONS / NOMIS)Annual Population Survey, imported daily — period NOMIS latest, retrieved Nov 2026Last success 16 hr ago

Broadband (Ofcom)Connected Nations coverage; new editions around May and November — imported 361 LAs from luna.csvLast success 75 days ago

Cost of living (ONS rents)Price Index of Private Rents; re-imported roughly quarterly — imported 348 LAs from pipr.csvLast success 75 days ago

Lifestyle (OpenStreetMap)Amenity density within 2 km via the Overpass API, live per report — healthcare near pointLast success just now

Transport (DfT NaPTAN)National public transport stop dataset; re-imported monthly — transport near pointLast success just now

Environment (Defra air quality)Modelled 1 km background PM2.5 and NO2; new maps each autumn — air quality cell lookupLast success just now

Education, England (DfE)Attainment 8 by local authority; published annually — 152 LAs loadedLast success 75 days ago

Education, Scotland (statistics.gov.scot)School leaver attainment by intermediate zone; published annually — 1279 intermediate zones loadedLast success 75 days ago

Education, Wales (StatsWales)Capped 9 points score by local authority; published annually — 22 LAs loadedLast success 75 days ago

Area score index539 areas scored and indexedGenerated 14 hr ago

Bulk metric datasets1663 datasets loaded, covering housing, broadband, schools and moreNewest updated 38 days ago

API response cache16,278 cached responses, 664.1 MB, oldest 32 daysNewest 3 min ago

Cookie consent records0 choices recorded, no IP addresses or browser details held; kept 24 monthsNone yet

A source is marked live when a request actually left this server. Answers held in cache are shown separately, because a cached answer proves the source is in use but says nothing about whether it is still up. Categories awaiting bulk datasets are listed on the sources page.

Scheduled jobs

Nightly score buildRescores every indexed area from the latest figures — took 7838s, 122 rows — 122 areas written, baselines updated, 130.6 min, 350 councilsLast run 13 hr ago

Weekly extended score buildRescores the second tier of towns and cities — took 12512s, 417 rows — 417 areas written, 4 skipped, 208.5 minLast run 14 hr ago

Daily metric buildHouse prices, employment and Scottish recorded crime — took 171s, 358 rows — house prices 358, employment 347 of 361 authoritiesLast run 16 hr ago

Daily source probeOne uncached request to each live API, to prove it is up — took 2s, 3 rows — all 3 probes passedLast run 6 hr ago

Cache maintenanceRemoves cached responses past their expiry — took 5s, 393 rows — 15993 scanned, 393 expired, 0 trimmed to ceiling, 0 stale temp files, 21.9 MB freed, 15600 keptLast run 17 hr ago

Every import and score build runs on a schedule. This section reports whether the job ran, not whether the API answered, which is the failure that otherwise goes unnoticed for weeks.