What is Local Knowledge
Local Knowledge is an online research and intelligence service, designed to help users achieve a better understanding of places. It contains the latest data, at different spatial levels, linked to an easy-to-use toolkit - and has a wide range of policy and research applications.

Key benefits:
  • Online and shareable research unit
  • Eye-catching visuals
  • Interactive and easy-to-use
  • Access to a wide range of data, with national coverage
  • Excellent customer support
  • Highly cost-effective
Visualising data
Local Knowledge contains an interactive toolkit, designed to bring data to life and tell a 'story-of-place'.


Our data
Local Knowledge contains over 1500 indicators for analysing the characteristics of Britain's cities and localities. Data is drawn from 130 nationally recognised sources and includes unique Local Futures indicators.

Content is held at a regional, sub-regional, local authority district, ward and neighbourhood level. Powerful search engines allow users to quickly locate data and generate outputs.

Data is organised within three broad categories - economy, society, environment - and twenty sub-categories.

  • Economy: scale; productivity; growth; industrial structure; business and enterprise; skills and qualifications; labour market

  • Society: demographics (age; ethnicity; households; migration and change); occupations; prosperity; deprivation; health; crime

  • Environment: housing; commercial & industrial floorspace; transport; local amenities; natural environment

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Local Knowledge Services
Local Knowledge is available on annual subsription, with access arrangements designed to reflect specific client needs.

We also offer a range of add-on services:

  • We provide data from third party suppliers, which can be viewed alongside our own data

  • We can incroporate your own data. This can be 'thematic' data (e.g. socio-economic data) or 'cosmetic' data (e.g. buildings and sites)

  • We can develop SMART Observatories: customised versions of Local Knowledge designed to meet specific client needs
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