Crime data was updated on 12th of September with data for July 2024.
Claimant Count data was updated on 11th of September with an update for July 2024 and data for August 2024.
Annual Population Survey data was updated on 25th of September with July 2024 data.
Business Demographics data was updated on 9th of September with data for 2022.
NEET (Young people not in education, employment or training) data was updated on 27th of August with data for 2023.
Absence data was updated on 27th of August with data for 2022/2023.
Pupil Characteristics – First Language data was updated on 27th August with data for 2023/2024.
Pupil Characteristics – Ethnicity data was updated on 27th August with data for 2023 and 2024.
Pupil Characteristics – Free School Meals data was updated on 27th August with data for 2023/2024.
Pupil Characteristics – Special Educational Needs data was updated on 27th August with data for 2023/2024.
Council Tax Stock of Properties data was updated on 30th of August with data for 2024.
Vacant Dwellings data was updated on 16th August with data for 2024.
Crime data was updated on 2nd of August with data for May 2024.
Crime data was update on 16th August with data for June 2024.
Claimant Count data was updated on 14th of August with an update for June 2024 and data for July 2024.
Journey Times data was updated on 27th August with data for 2019.
Child and Maternal Health data was updated on the 13th August with data for 2022/23.
Adult Social Care Outcomes Framework data was updated on 16th of August with data for 2023/2024.
Key Stage 2 and Key Stage 4 data was updated on 4th of July with data for 2022 and 2023.
Fuel Poverty data was updated on 5th of July with data for 2022 and 2021.
The Public Health Outcomes Framework was updated on 27th of July. As part of this update some indicators were deprecated and replaced by new indicators. All deprecated/superseded indicators can be found in our list of deprecated indicators.
Universal Credit data was updated on 25th of July with an update for June 2024 and revised data for May 2024.
Claimant Count data was updated on 22th of July with an update for June 2024 and revised data for May 2024.
Small Area Population Estimates were updated on 20th July with data for 2023.
We are pleased to announce that we are currently in the process of updating the National Data Service to use the 2024 Ward boundaries. We are aiming to go live with this change over the weekend of the 5th & 6th October 2024.
Below a few questions and answers around this update.
Yes, the 2024 ward boundaries will become our standard ward geography. We will not retain the older ward layer. If you have another vintage of wards as a custom geography, this will remain. If you would like us to remove the custom ward layer, please get in touch with our Technical Support team.
Most datasets will be aggregable from LSOA 2011, LSOA 2021 or OA 2021 layers. Where the smallest published level is the older ward layer, there will be some gaps in the data where it does not exist for 2024 wards and cannot be aggregated. This will not affect the majority of datasets.
When the source data is updated in its normal cycle for 2024 wards, we will include the source data in the service. Where data is available at LSOA 2011, LSOA 2021 or OA 2021, and can be aggregated or calculated, we will aim provide this for the 2024 wards.
We understand that there are no plans from the ONS to republish the Census 2021 data for the newer wards. We will, therefore, fill in the gaps where possible (see answer question 2 for more detail)
Yes, we will try and retain historic time series where possible (see answer to question 2 for more detail).
We use the same approach as the ONS. In summary, this means we use the ONS population weighted centroids. Each of them falls into one Ward and the entire value of the source area will be assigned to that Ward.
The aim moving forwards is to update the ward boundaries for all customers in the July/August of each year.
Early Years data was updated 20th June with data for 2022/23
Crime data was updated on 12th of June with data for Apr 2024.
Universal Credit data was updated on 15th of June (with an update for Apr 2024 and data for May 2024).
Claimant Count data was updated on 12th of June (with an update for Apr 2024 and data for May 2024).
Waste data was updated on 18th of June with data for 2022/23
Crime data was updated on 13th of May with data for Mar 2024.
Universal Credit data was updated on 24th of May (with an update for Mar 2024 and data for Apr 2024).
Claimant Count data was updated on 21st of May (with an update for Mar 2024 and data for Apr 2024).
Early Years data was updated on 28th April with 2022/2023 data. We have also provided additional indicators for 2021/2022 and 2022/2023.
Please note that as part of wider reforms to the EYFS, the EYFS profile was revised significantly in September 2021. It is therefore not possible to directly compare 2021/22 assessment outcomes with earlier years. As a result we deprecated several indicators as they have been superseded by new indicators from the revised EYFS profile.
All deprecated/superseded indicators can be found in our list of deprecated indicators.
Crime data was updated on 20th of April with data for Feb 2024.
Universal Credit data was updated on 19th of April (with an update for Feb 2024 and data for Mar 2024).
Claimant Count data was updated on 18th of April (with an update for Feb 2024 and data for Mar 2024).
Annual Population Survey data was updated on 28th of April with data up to Jan-Dec 2023.
Emissions dataset: scale factor error in emissions per km² and emissions per persons indicators fixed on 28th April. These indicators are now showing as tonnes per km² and tonnes per person respectively.
Small Area Population Estimates was updated on 3rd May with data for 2021 and 2022.
Crime data was updated on 25th of March with data for Jan 2024.
Universal Credit data was updated on 19th of March (with an update for Jan 2024 and data for Feb 2024).
Claimant Count data was updated on 15th of March (with an update for Jan 2024 and data for Feb 2024).
Adult Social Care Outcomes Framework data was updated on 9th of March with data for 2022- 2023.
Housing stock data has been updated on 7th March with data for 2022 and 2023.
Council Tax Band data has been updated on 21st March with data for 2022 and 2023.
Net housing addition data has been updated on 25th March with data for 2022.
Key Stage 2 data was updated on 1st March with data now available up to 2023.
Crime data (Dec 2023) was updated on 13th of February.
Universal Credit data was updated on 7th of February (with an update for Nov 2023 and data for Dec 2023) and again on 19th of February (with an update for Dec 2023 and data for Jan 2024). Metadata information was improved on 7th of February.
Claimant Count data was updated on 14th of February (with an update for Dec 2023 and data for Jan 2024).
Business Counts were updated on 1st of March with data for 2023.
Metadata for the Low Income Families dataset was improved on 7th of February.
Population Estimates for Regions were republished on 7th of February. We noticed that some duplicates had appeared in the data, confusing the region values within the system so we have refreshed these with the correct values.
This update covers December 2023 and January 2024.
Free School Meal data detailing pupil eligibility over a prior 6 year period was added on 2nd January. Data has been added from the 2015/16 school year through to 2022/23.
Crime data (Nov 2023) was updated on 5th of January.
Universal Credit data was updated on 19th of December (with an update for Sep 2023 and data for Oct and Nov 2023).
Claimant Count data was updated on 19th of December (with an update for Sep 2023 and data for Oct and Nov 2023) and again on 16th January (with an update for Nov 2023 and data for Dec 2023).
Apprenticeships data was updated on 12th of January to include data for 2021-2022 and 2022-2023. We also fixed the data for the Country geography for 2020-2021.
The Renewables dataset (2022) was updated on 2nd of January.
The Emissions dataset (2021) was updated on 12th January. On 24th of January we released a fix for missing County level values.
As part of this update we deprecated some indicators of the emission dataset. All deprecated indicators can be found in our list of deprecated indicators.
The Wellbeing dataset (2022-2023) was updated on 3rd of January.
Population Estimates for 2022 were added on 15th of January for Local Authorities and higher level geographies. We also updated all population estimates indicators of these geographies with rebased figures back to 2012. As the changes to historic values are small, we made the decision to not recalculate Claimant Count rates, Universal Credit rates and Crime rates for the years 2012 to 2021.
