IA National Data Service – February 2026 Update

Crime

Crime data was updated on 18th February with December 2025 data.

Economy

Universal Credit data was updated on the 25th February with February 2026 data.

Claimant Count data was updated on the 20th February with January 2025 data and revised December 2025 data. This update also includes data for Wards 2025, LSOA 2021 and MSOA 2021 for the first time.

Business Demographics data was updated on the 10th February with 2025 data.

Education

Suspensions and Exclusions data was updated on 27th Feb with 2023/24 data.

Health

Adult Social Care Outcomes Framework data was updated on the 13th February with 2024-2025 data.

 

IA National Data Service – January 2026 Update

Crime

Crime data was updated on 20th January with November 2025 data.

Economy

Universal Credit data was updated on the 30th January with January 2026 data.

Claimant Count data was updated on the 21st January with December 2025 data and revised November 2025 data.

Business Counts data was updated on the 7th January with October 2025 data.

Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings data was updated on the 14th January with 2025 data.

Model Based Unemployment data was added for unitary LAs on the 30th January.

Housing

Household Projections data was updated on the 8th January with 2022-based data (migration category variant).

Homelessness data was updated on the 15th January with 2024-2025 data.

Net Housing Additions data was updated on the 15th January with 2024-2025 data and revised 2023-2024 data.

IA National Data Service – December 2025 Update

Crime

Crime data was updated on 23rd December with October 2025 data.

Economy

Universal Credit data was updated on the 19th December with November 2025 data.

Claimant Count data was updated on 18th December with revised October and November 2025 data.

Business Register and Employment Survey data was updated on 10th December with 2024 data.

Environment

Renewables data was updated on 12th December with 2024 data.

 

IA National Data Service – November Update 2025

Crime

Crime data was updated on 17th November with September 2025 data.

Deprivation

Index of Multiple Deprivation data was updated on 6th November with 2025 data. Data in this release is also based on LSOA 2021 data.

Economy

Universal Credit was published on the 17th November with September 2025 data.

Education

Free School Meals (6 year) data was updated on the 18th November with 2024/25 data.

Health

Child and Maternal Health data was updated on 28th November with updates from Fingertips.

Public Heath Outcomes Framework data was updated on 28th November with updates from Fingertips. 

Population

Population Estimates for small areas has been updated with 2024, 2023 and revised 2022 data. The 2015-2021 data was also rebased during this update. This was updated on the 24th November.

IA National Data Service – October 2025 Update

Crime

Crime data was updated on 21st October with August 2025 data.

Deprivation

Children in Low Income Families was updated 12th October with a 10 year refresh of the data.

Economy

Claimant Count data was updated on 16th October with September data and revised August data.

Annual Population Survey was updated on 30th October with June 2025 data.

Housing

Council Tax Band data was updated on 23rd October with 2024/25 data for UTLA, LTLA, Regions and Country.

 

IA National Data Service – September 2025 Update

Crime

Crime data was updated on 24th September with July 2025 data.

Economy

Claimant Count data was updated on 18th September with August data and revised July data.

Universal Credit data was updated on 22nd September with August data.

Education

NEET data was updated on 3rd September with 2025 data.

Environment

Greenhouse Gas Emissions data was updated on 4th September with 2005-2023 data. New indicators for emissions and CO2 emissions within the scope of local authorities were also added.

Rural Urban data was updated on the 26th September with 2021 data. 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.

IA National Data Service – August 2025 Update

Economy

Claimant Count data was updated on 14th August with July data and revised June data.

Universal Credit data was updated on 28th August with July 2025 data.

Health

Child and Maternal Health data was updated on 18th August with updates from Fingertips. 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.

Public Heath Outcomes Framework data was updated on 18th August with updates from Fingertips. 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.

Adult Social Care Outcomes Framework data was updated on 11th August with 2023/2024 data.

Population

Annual Population Survey data was updated on the 6th August with March 2025 data.

Population Projection data was updated on 6th August with 2022 based data.

Population Estimates data was updated on 26th August with 2024 data (only for levels LTLA and above).

IA National Data Service – July 2025 Update

Crime

Crime data was updated on 21st July with May 2025 data.

Economy

Claimant Count data was updated on 17th July with June data and revised May data.

Gross Value Added data was updated on 14th July with 2025 data.

Universal Credit data was updated on 24th July with April, May and June 2025 data.

Education

Pupil Characteristics Ethnicity, First Language, Free School Meals were updated on the 1st July with 2024-25 data.

Special Education Needs was updated on 27th July with 2024-25 data.

Environment

Waste data was updated on 11th July with 2023-24 data.

Population

This month a number of population indicators have been deprecated. All deprecated/superseded indicators can be found in our list of deprecated indicators.

IA National Data Service – June 2025 Update

Crime

Crime data was updated on 19th June with April 2025 data.

Economy

Claimant Count data was updated on 16th June with May data and revised April data.

Job Density data was updated on 20th June with 2023 data and 2022 revised data.

Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings data was updated on 30th June with 2024 data and 2023 revised data. Data pre 2018 has also been removed.

Education

Key Stage 2 data was updated on 9th June for 2023/24 for 8 indicators only – further updates expected later this year.

Key Stage 4 data was updated on 9th June for 2023/24.

Housing

A number of housing deprecations have taken place in June, including House Price data, some Homelessness data and Out of Work Household data. All deprecated/superseded indicators can be found in our list of deprecated indicators

Data Observatory WordPress Theme Summer 2025 Update – Release Notes

Overview

This update of the Data Observatory WordPress theme incudes enhancements to the Quick Ward Profile search and the statistics chart widgets on the homepage. We also used this release to tidy page templates and address several bugs.

Important: We will roll out these changes to individual customer websites over the coming weeks. Hence the changes might not be immediately visible in your site.

Please note that the enhancements and bug fixes listed below apply to the standard setup of our Data Observatory offering. If your site has been customised, it might be that not all of the described changes are visible.

Key enhancements

Quick Ward Profile search

  • On the home page, the Quick Ward Profile search field has gained a search button to improve user experience and accessibility.
  • It is now possible to search by Ward names as well as postcodes to create a Quick Ward Profile.
  • A filter can be applied to ensure that only postcodes or Ward names that fall within a particular area (usually the Local Authority) will be accepted before loading the report.

Other enhancements

  • Categories pages (created by WordPress on-the-fly, showing all posts or pages assigned to a specific category)  have gained a more pleasing default layout. This can be further adjusted using custom CSS.
  • Page templates we added to the theme have been renamed to replace ‘InstantAtlas’ with ‘Esri UK Data Observatory’ in line with the New Branding for National Data Service and Data Observatory.
  • The padding around the statistics charts on the homepage has been reduced to create a more pleasing look-and-feel.
  • It is now possible to apply a linear scale to the y-axis of the statistics charts on the homepage. If you are interested in this being applied to your site, please log a case using My Esri.
  • Obsolete EditURI / xmlrpc.php links have been removed from page heads in the HTML.

Key bug fixes

  • Map pop-ups have been disabled for the homepage map. They used to show after certain user workflows, covering most of the map.
  • The ‘InstantAtlas – Sub-Level – Blank’ page template  (now called ‘Esri UK Data Observatory – Sub-Level – Blank’) no longer causes content located after headings formatted as ‘Heading 2’ to collapse in an accordion style.
  • The ‘InstantAtlas – Sub-Level – Content’ page template (now called ‘Esri UK Data Observatory – Sub-Level – Content’) no longer causes long URLs and slow page loads when the page is a child of one of our core themes.
  • Accessibility issues related to ARIA attributes and ARIA landmarks the have been addressed.