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Place Explorer
Free, open place-based profiling tool for the United Kingdom, built by Rose Regeneration and Social Value Engine.
What it does
Enter any UK postcode and instantly receive a detailed profile combining multiple official datasets — designed for policy teams, researchers, grant writers, community organisations, and anyone who needs to understand a place quickly.
Data sources
- IMD 2025 — English Index of Multiple Deprivation (2025 release): income, employment, education, health, crime, housing and living environment at LSOA level
- WIMD 2019 — Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation
- SIMD 2020 — Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation
- NIMDM 2017 — Northern Ireland Multiple Deprivation Measure
- Census 2021 — Age, ethnicity, economic activity, qualifications, tenure, social grade and health for England & Wales
- Community Life Survey — Social cohesion, volunteering, trust and loneliness indicators at local authority level
- GVA — Gross Value Added per head at local authority level (ONS)
- BRES — Business Register and Employment Survey: industry-level employee counts at local authority level (2019 and 2024)
- Rural-Urban Classification — ONS/Defra classification at LSOA and MSOA level
Key features
- Postcode lookup with full deprivation decile, domain scores, and national/regional percentile context
- Local authority summary dashboards with population pyramids and demographic breakdowns
- Side-by-side area comparison tool
- Interactive choropleth map with LSOA-level deprivation shading
- Insights panel surfacing statistical anomalies and cross-dataset patterns
- Coverage across all four nations: England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland
Access
Free to use at place.socialvalueengine.com. No account required for basic lookups.