Long-run trends
How has your area changed over twenty years?
A place changes slowly enough that nobody living there quite sees it. The Office for National Statistics keeps the long record: how many people live in a council area and how old they are, how many are in work or claiming, what they earn and what a home costs, how long they can expect to stay healthy, how much gas they burn and how much carbon the place emits. This page draws each series from its first year to its latest for one postcode's council area, with the nation dashed alongside.
- 13 series back to 1991
- Prices, pay & affordability
- Healthy life expectancy
- Emissions & gas use
How this works
The ONS Explore local statistics service holds every published year of each indicator for every council area, region and nation. This page asks it for thirteen long-running series for the council area, its county where one exists, its nation and the UK in a single call, thins the monthly house price index to one point a year, and charts each from its first year to its latest with the nation alongside. The change figure is the whole span of the local series, and the nation’s change is measured over the same years so the two can be compared. Pay, income and prices are in cash terms: the pound of 1997 bought roughly twice what today’s does, so a doubling in cash is about level in real terms. Healthy life expectancy is published for upper-tier authorities, so an English district shows its county’s series, marked as such.
Sources
- ONS Explore local statistics (ons.gov.uk/explore-local-statistics), the service’s own JSON interface; Office for National Statistics content licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0, with each series’ producer named on its page.
- Postcodes and council areas: postcodes.io / ONS Postcode Directory (OGL v3).