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

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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. These are written up so far. Every one of the 361 is on the full list.

London

South East

South West

East of England

East Midlands

West Midlands

Yorkshire and the Humber

North West

North East

Wales

Scotland

What a plan adds to the map

The map shows what is there. A plan sets three to five places against where you live now for your household. Then it says plainly which compromise hurts least. 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.

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

Three to five areas, 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 your regional supplier 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 doctorHow every registered practice in the district is rated, from the live NHS register and the CQC, 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, ask before you order and the reply says exactly what can be sourced.

How it actually works

A person does the work. That is the product and it is why the answer is worth having.

The person is Finlay Wellington. He wrote the pipeline that pulls these sources and he wrote the worked plan by hand, one figure at a time, over four hours. Wellington Web Co is his. If you order a plan, he is the one who researches it and 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, three to five places you are weighing and the three things that would actually decide it.
Five minutes
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We build it by hand Official sources, pulled and checked one at a time, then written up against what you told us. This is the part that takes the time and it is the part you are paying for.
Four to five hours
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It arrives as a page you can keep and print Every figure carries its source, the period it covers and the date it was checked, so you can check the ones that matter against the original.
Within five working days

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
  • Three to five areas, 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 page you keep and a PDF you can print or send, which is this one
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The plan and three calls
  • Everything above
  • A judgement call with you, about your shortlist
  • Three calls made on your behalf: the GP nearest your front runner, an insurance broker on flood for a specific address and a second GP for the backup place
  • Opening shortly. Put your name down and we will tell you the day it does
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We cap how many we take. Each one is built by hand, so if the week is full we tell you when you write rather than letting the promise slip.

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.