Where does your area rank?
Type your postcode to see where your council ranks among all 361 in the UK on pay, age, how many residents were born abroad and 14 more official measures.
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Postcodes: ONS, August 2026
The council for each postcode comes from the ONS National Statistics Postcode Lookup (NSPL), August 2026, the ONS best fit from 2021 Census areas. Live postcodes only. Northern Ireland postcodes are not included: their licence does not allow publishing them on a free public site.
Your full postcode stays on this device: your browser fetches only the small file for its first half (SW1A for SW1A 1AA) from this site, and works out the council itself.
- Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0
- Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026
- Contains Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right 2026
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What share of people in were born outside the UK?
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- Ranked on 17 measures
4th highest of 361 councils for refugees resettled per 1,000 residents through UK schemes since 2021.
- Council seats and MPs
No party holds more than half the 90 seats. Reform UK has the most, 29. The 5 constituencies that overlap it elected 4 Labour and 1 Conservative MPs in 2024.
- Councils like it
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