Civometry

18 measures

Your area against the country

Each council’s change over the last year beside the national change on the same measure: faster, in line, more slowly, or the opposite direction, by a fixed tolerance printed on each page. “Faster” means further in the national direction, nothing more.

MeasureNational change, one yearFasterIn lineMore slowlyOppositeNot comparable
Asylum seekers supported in each council areapeople · Home Office−12.0%2025 Q2 to 2026 Q2106235615118
Average house price£ · HM Land Registry+2.0%June 2025 to June 20261808031690
Average private rent a month£ a month · ONS+3.7%July 2025 to July 202612310181110
Claimants as a proportion of residents aged 16 to 64percent · ONS+0.1 pointsJuly 2025 to July 2026162960490
Council investments held£ million · MHCLG−1.4%2025 Q2 to 2026 Q2185731642
Council spending on services£ million · MHCLG+8.5%Year ending March 2024 to Year ending March 2025856772691
Earmarked council reserves£ million · MHCLG−2.9%Year ending March 2024 to Year ending March 202511711141484
House price annual changepercent · HM Land Registry−0.8 pointsJune 2025 to June 202611812182120
Mean domestic electricity consumption per meterkWh a year · DESNZ+0.9%2023 to 2024672050780
Mean domestic gas consumption per meterkWh a year · DESNZ−0.8%2023 to 2024552180740
Median annual pay, full-time employees, by area of residence£ a year · ONS+4.3%2024 to 20251296995550
Median weekly pay, full-time employees, by area of residence£ a week · ONS+5.3%2024 to 202511510897282
Outstanding council borrowing£ million · MHCLG+4.3%2025 Q2 to 2026 Q2129195512731
People claiming unemployment-related benefitspeople · ONS+1.3%July 2025 to July 20261986910840
People resettled in each council areapeople · Home Office−64.9%2025 Q2 to 2026 Q23132627253
Population by local authoritypeople · ONS+1.1%2023 to 2024243127180
Private rent annual changepercent · ONS−2.3 pointsJuly 2025 to July 20261674848530
Unallocated council reserves£ million · MHCLG+11.8%Year ending March 2024 to Year ending March 202563161247219

How this page is made

Each council’s change is its own latest published figure against its figure exactly one year earlier; the national change is the national series’ own, not an average of councils. Two changes are “in line” when they differ by no more than a quarter of the national change’s size, with a floor of one point of percent change (0.2 percentage points for a rate stated in percent). Beyond that a council is faster or slower by size, or opposite when the two changes have different signs. A council with no figure a year earlier is listed as not comparable, never as unchanged.

Related: geographical gaps · what changed most · find your area.