Groundsense

A free map of the United Kingdom, council by council.

Every council in the UK, on one scale

Twenty four published figures across all 361 councils: what a home costs, rents, council tax, recorded crime, schools, GP lists, air and more. Each one carries its source and the date it was checked. No account and no card.

£109,131 £1,250,149

The average home in every council in the UK, from Inverclyde to Kensington and Chelsea. The worked plan's two places, East Dulwich and Exeter, are marked.

UK House Price Index, June 2026 · 360 local authorities, none published for the Isles of Scilly

Open the map What a plan adds · £49
Every local authority in the United Kingdom shaded by its average house price, light for cheap and dark for dear. On a wide screen each one is also raised by its own figure. The South East is the darkest; Scotland, Wales and the North are the palest. East Dulwich is marked in south London and Exeter in Devon.
Average home June 2026
Kensington and Chelsea, the dearest £1,250,149
Southwark, for East Dulwich £582,473
Exeter £280,982
Inverclyde, the cheapest £109,131

Eleven and a half times, from one end of the country to the other. The map sets twenty four figures like this one side by side for every council.

Every local authority in the United Kingdom shaded by its average house price. East Dulwich is marked in south London and Exeter in Devon.

Every council, in its own figures

Each council has a page of its published figures, ranked against the UK, its region and the councils next door. Open a region for its councils. All 361 are on the full list.

London33 councils
South East64 councils
South West27 councils
East of England45 councils
East Midlands35 councils
West Midlands30 councils
Yorkshire and the Humber15 councils
North West35 councils
North East12 councils
Wales22 councils
Scotland32 councils
Northern Ireland11 councils

What a plan adds to the map

The map shows what is there. A plan sets up to five places against where you live now for your household. Then it shows plainly what each one gains and what it gives up. This is one real plan, for a household in East Dulwich weighing up Exeter.

£301,491

cheaper to buy an average home in Exeter than in East Dulwich.

Running one costs £685.10 a year more, the opposite of what leaving London is supposed to do. At that rate it takes 440 years to swallow the difference. Both figures took one person four hours to find by hand. A plan now finds them in under a minute.

Leaving London is supposed to be the cheap move

These two maps come from one table and are shaded on one scale, so they can be read against each other. That is the whole job: not a number on its own, but a number you can place.

The 33 Greater London boroughs shaded by council tax at band D. Almost all are in the lightest shades. East Dulwich is marked in the centre south.
Greater London All 33 boroughs. Southwark sits in the cheapest fifth of England.
The ten Devon authorities shaded by council tax at band D. Every one except Plymouth and Torbay is in the darkest shade. Exeter is marked on the east coast.
Devon All ten authorities. Exeter sits in the second dearest fifth.
£1,028 £2,765 Band D, a year. Five equal groups of English authorities, cheapest to dearest.

What that costs this household, line by line

Every figure real, sourced and dated. This table is one section of the plan; the rest is schools, GPs, flood history and the neighbourhood.

Measure East DulwichWhere they live now ExeterConsidering
Council tax, band D East Dulwich£1,967.26 Exeter£2,495.36More+£528.10
Water and sewerage East Dulwich£658 Exeter£740More+£82
Energy, median home East Dulwich£933 Exeter£1,008Similar+£75
What we can total so far East Dulwich£3,558.26 Exeter£4,243.36More+£685.10
Get your plan · £49 Read the whole plan MHCLG, Council Tax levels set by local authorities in England 2026-27, Table 9 · Water UK · Energy Certificate Data API · read 26 and 27 Sep and 3 Oct 2026

What a plan actually contains

Up to five places, against where you live now, built around the three things you said would decide it.

The moneyCouncil tax by band with the county, police and fire precepts already in it, water by supplier wherever we can confirm it and the modelled energy cost of a median home in each area. The table above is this section, in full.
SchoolsHow many there are by phase and how full they are. Occupancy is the closest thing in open data to admissions pressure and a better guide to getting a place than an inspection grade.
Getting a doctorPatients per GP, the share of practices the CQC rates Good or Outstanding and how many practices the district has, with a straight answer on what a rating does not tell you about getting an appointment.
Flood historyWhether a place has actually flooded, from the map of recorded floods, not the risk zone. One household in our research paid £850 for a survey and learned from the insurance quote that the bungalow had flooded in Storm Dennis. They had checked the zone map.
The neighbourhoodDeprivation written out in words rather than a rank nobody can read and what is within a mile on foot.
Who to ring nextThe last section names the specific council team or number for anything the published data cannot settle, so you finish the plan with a next step rather than a dead end.

Which nation the address is in changes which registers exist. Flood outlines, practice ratings and school records are published for England only. Crime and food hygiene reach Wales and Northern Ireland as well. House prices are the one source spanning all four nations on a single methodology. A Scottish council tax bill already includes water and sewerage, so it is never summed with an English one to make a tidier total. For an address in Scotland or Northern Ireland, the plan says at the top exactly what it could not source.

How it actually works

Nothing to wait for and nobody in between. You answer four questions and pay. The plan is then built from the official sources while you wait, usually in under a minute.

The pipeline is Finlay Wellington's. He wrote the code that pulls these sources and he wrote the worked plan by hand, one figure at a time, over four hours, before teaching the pipeline to build the same thing on its own. Wellington Web Co is his. If a figure in your plan looks wrong, the reply comes from him at finlay@wellingtonwebco.com.

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You tell us your areas and what matters Where you live now, up to five places you are weighing and the three things that would actually decide it. Each place is checked as you type it, so you see what it found before you pay.
Five minutes
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It is built from the official sources Every figure is read for your places from the same sources the map uses, then set against where you live now, with the negatives in a section of their own. Nothing is estimated and nothing is filled in by hand.
About a minute
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It arrives as a page you can keep and print At a private address you are taken to straight away. Every figure carries its source, the period it covers and the date it was read, so you can check the ones that matter against the original.
Straight after paying

What it costs

The map is free and always will be. What costs money is the research on top of it.

Free no account, no card

The map

  • Every local authority in the United Kingdom, on one scale
  • Measured figures only, each carrying its source and the date it was checked
  • Anything unpublished reads as no data rather than as a guess
  • Shortlist places and compare them against where you live now
Open the map

Free because it is worth more to us being used than being charged for.

£49 once, not a subscription
The plan
  • Up to five places, compared against where you live now
  • Built around the three things you said would decide it
  • Every figure sourced, dated and checkable against the original
  • A named section of the negatives, not buried
  • What we could not answer and who to ring about each
  • A private page you keep and can print, like this sample
Get your plan Four questions · built the moment you pay · full refund for 14 days

Built while you wait. Your plan is built from the official sources the moment you pay, usually in under a minute. You are taken straight to it.

Fourteen days, no questions. If the plan does not tell you something you could not have found yourself, say so and we refund it.

We do not store your card. Payment is handled by Stripe and nothing is kept on file, because there is nothing to renew.