Free UK data your business can actually use
24 openly available UK datasets, curated for SMEs — what each one is good for, how it connects to the data you already hold, and how to get it.
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UK Business Counts & Business Demography
How many businesses there are in every local authority, broken down by industry, employee size band and legal form — plus how many start up, close down and survive each year. The…
Business Rates (Non-Domestic Rating List)
Every commercial property in England and Wales — 2.1 million of them — with its address, postcode, what kind of property it is, its floor area in square metres and its rateable va…
Grid Carbon Intensity (GB Electricity)
How much CO2 every unit of electricity on the GB grid carries, right now and forecast ahead — nationally, by region, and by the first part of a postcode. Plus what is actually gen…
Census 2021 (England & Wales)
The full demographic picture of every neighbourhood in England and Wales, taken on Census Day in March 2021 — age, ethnicity, health, housing, work, qualifications and household m…
Charity Register (England & Wales)
Every registered charity in England and Wales — close to 400,000 of them — with finances, trustees, activities and contact details. The definitive account of who the charitable se…
Filed Company Accounts (Companies House Accounts Data)
The actual accounts UK companies file each year — turnover, assets, cash, employee numbers and more — published as machine-readable filings rather than PDFs. Roughly 60% of the 2.…
UK Company Register (Companies House Company Data)
Every live company on the UK register — 5.7 million of them — with registered name, address, company number, legal form, incorporation date, trading status and SIC industry codes.…
Persons with Significant Control (PSC)
Who ultimately owns or controls each UK company — the beneficial-ownership register. It turns the company list into an ownership map: every company's controlling individuals and p…
Street-Level Crime & Outcomes
Every crime reported to the police in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, published monthly at street level — from burglary and vehicle crime to anti-social behaviour — including…
English Indices of Deprivation (IMD)
Every neighbourhood in England ranked on deprivation — income, employment, education, health, crime, housing and living environment — for roughly 33,000 small areas. The standard…
Energy Performance Certificates (EPC)
Energy ratings for over nine million buildings in England and Wales — homes and commercial premises alike — with floor areas, heating systems and the improvements each building wa…
Gender Pay Gap Reports
Gender pay gap figures for every UK employer with 250 or more staff, filed each year since 2017 — pay and bonus gaps, quartile splits, and each employer's company number. In effec…
GP Practices & Registered Patients
The official register of every GP practice, pharmacy, dentist and optician in England — name, address, postcode and status — alongside how many patients are registered at each pra…
MOT Tests & Results (Anonymised)
Every MOT test in Great Britain since 2005 — make, model, age, mileage, pass or fail, and exactly what it failed on. The best free evidence of which vehicles hold up and which do…
Population Estimates (mid-year)
Official population counts for every neighbourhood and local authority, refreshed each year and broken down by age and sex — right down to areas of about 1,500 people. The denomin…
Postcode Lookups & Boundaries (ONS)
The free lookup that turns a postcode into everything else — the neighbourhood, ward, local authority, constituency and region it sits in, plus map coordinates. This is the datase…
GP Prescribing in England (EPD)
Every medicine prescribed by every GP practice in England, month by month — what was dispensed, how much of it, and what it cost. Around 18 million rows a month, with the practice…
Property Sales — Price Paid Data
Every residential property sale registered in England and Wales since 1995 — price, date, full address and property type — straight from HM Land Registry and refreshed every month.
Public Contracts (Contracts Finder)
Every UK public-sector tender and contract award published on Contracts Finder — what was bought, for how much, and which supplier won. The public record of who wins public money,…
Public Transport Stops (NaPTAN)
Every public transport access point in Great Britain — 434,000 bus stops, station entrances, tram platforms, ferry and airport access points and taxi ranks — each with a map coord…
Road Collisions & Casualties (STATS19)
Every road collision reported to the police in Great Britain since 1979 — nine million of them — each pinned to a map coordinate, with the vehicles and casualties involved, the ro…
Road Traffic Counts (AADF)
How many vehicles pass 46,000 points on the road network on an average day — split into cars, vans, lorries, buses and bikes, going back to 2000. The closest thing to free footfal…
Schools & Pupils (School Census)
Every school in England with its postcode, size, type and phase — plus who its pupils are: age, year group, free school meals, first language and ethnicity. Taken from the January…
Licensed Vehicles & New Registrations (DVLA)
Every vehicle licensed in Great Britain, counted by neighbourhood — by body type, fuel, make, model and whether it is privately or company owned. The free way to find where the va…
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