About

Compare My Postcode puts every neighbourhood in England on its own page with a clear 0–100 Area Score derived from the official Indices of Deprivation 2025, alongside HM Land Registry house-price trends. It's built to help people get an honest, data-led orientation on an area — whether they're moving, researching, or just curious.

Neighbourhoods are Middle-layer Super Output Areas (MSOAs) — about 7,000 people each — shown with House of Commons Library friendly names, grouped by region and local authority.

We present official open data as cleanly and neutrally as we can. We do not editorialise areas or use emotive language, and we never blend house prices into the Area Score.

Who's behind it

I'm Richard Chater, and I built Compare My Postcode. I'm a new dad, and a bit of a statistics nerd. For a long time I've lived in a very urban area and loved it — being a short walk from good restaurants, things to do, and convenient work options is hard to give up. But now that I have a child, I find myself wanting them to grow up somewhere a little closer to nature.

That ambition turned out to be surprisingly hard to act on. When you start thinking about moving somewhere genuinely new, you don't know what you don't know — it's difficult even to know where to begin. I spent weeks and months pulling individual figures from scattered corners of government websites, trying to line places up against each other by hand. Eventually I decided to stop doing it manually and build a tool that compares areas more easily, and more objectively, than I ever could with a pile of open browser tabs.

That tool became Compare My Postcode. Everything here is built from official open data, derived the same way for every neighbourhood so the comparison is fair, with the workings explained on the methodology page. If you spot something that looks wrong, or you have an idea for making it more useful, I'd genuinely like to hear it: [email protected].

— Richard Chater, founder