Local Insight

We hold over 1,500 regularly updated neighbourhood-level indicators across a number of different themes

Discover more about the areas you work with, through our sophisticated maps, reports and dashboards

Pinpoint areas of any size or shape and carry out detailed bespoke analysis with precision

Upload your own data to the tool to comprehensively map your service provision and ensure your funding is reaching the right places

Be confident that you and your team are using consistent and up-to-date data

Local Insight holds over a 1,500 neighbourhood level indicators from over 50 different sources – and this is continually growing.

New data regularly added to Local Insight, including indicators developed by the OCSI team
OCSI manage and maintain all data in Local Insight, with updates live within a working week of release
Your central hub for all place-based data

Statistical geographies, such as Lower Super Output Areas (LSOAs) are useful – but they don’t tend to relate to meaningful communities.

Use Local Insight to create the neighbourhoods and communities you care about, exactly as you understand them
Define your neighbourhoods through drawing a boundary on a map, importing a geoJSON file, a list of postcodes and building areas from statistical geographies
Create your area once and we will calculate data for your bespoke neighbourhood, ready to use again and again

Quickly and easily find the information you need, in the format you need it. The wide range of visualisations means there is something for everyone.

Use:

Maps to view a range of indicators and highlight areas in need, at a national, local and super-local level
Dashboards to compare the areas you care about quickly and easily on a number of factors
Reports to take an in-depth look at one of your communities

Local Insight is easy to use, so you don’t need to be a statistician to gain useful insights about your neighbourhoods.

Share information on your key projects and services by adding your own locally held data to your group.
Use visuals, data, charts and reports in your own presentations, publications and funding bids.
Public-facing sites mean even more people can access the data they need about their local areas, without any admin overhead for you.