Every UK postcode, explained
Schools, crime, GP surgeries, transport, hygiene ratings and more, for any UK postcode. Built from official national datasets, with every number naming where it came from.
Free to start · No card needed · England, Wales & Scotland
…plus council tax, EV chargers, hospitals, post offices and your MP.
MoveCompass is a free postcode checker for England, Wales and Scotland. Type any UK postcode and see the schools, crime, GP surgeries, transport, broadband, sold prices and council tax around it — each figure from an official source, with the source named.
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Each dataset becomes a focused tool — fast, mapped and traceable to its official source.
Which speeds are actually available at a postcode — full fibre, gigabit and superfast — from Ofcom’s own coverage data rather than a provider’s sales page.
Parks, playgrounds, nature reserves and allotments alongside leisure centres, pools, gyms, pitches and courts, plus the places people gather — libraries, halls, youth and social clubs, theatres, cinemas, museums, galleries and places of worship. All of it is OpenStreetMap, mapped by local contributors, so somewhere well used but never surveyed can be missing. Use it to judge what there is to do within a walk or a short drive, which is the part a house listing never tells you.
Recorded street-level crime by category and month, with the trend over time. England, Wales and Northern Ireland — Scotland publishes no street-level data.
Energy Performance Certificates lodged against a postcode: current and potential band, the score out of 100, the date the assessor called, and what the home is made of. England and Wales — where there is no certificate, we say so rather than estimate one.
Public charging nearby, with speed, network operator and how far you would walk back.
Who represents a postcode in the Commons, straight from Parliament’s own records.
Removals firms and man-with-a-van drivers who cover your postcode. Every listing is checked before it appears: a driving licence and an insurance certificate, seen by us and then deleted. Ratings and reviews come from people who used them.
Plumbers, electricians, heating engineers, handymen and more, listed by the services they actually offer. Gas and electrical work is only listed where the certificate has been checked against the register that issues it.
Flood warnings and alerts in force near a postcode right now, read live from the Environment Agency. England only, and the long-term risk of a property is a separate EA service we link to rather than guess at.
Official FSA ratings for places to eat and shop nearby, with the inspection date, because a rating from years ago is not news about today.
NHS and independent hospitals within reach, with CQC inspection ratings where we hold them.
Every sale recorded since 1995, what the area has done since, and the split between flats, terraces and detached homes. England and Wales.
Shops, parks, gyms, libraries and places of worship within walking distance, mapped by OpenStreetMap contributors and counted by type.
GP surgeries, pharmacies and dentists near a postcode, from the NHS organisation register.
Post offices, post boxes with collection times, lockers and courier points.
Every school and college near a postcode, with its phase, age range, capacity and latest Ofsted report, plus how far it actually is. England only for inspection data.
Crime, sold prices, broadband and food hygiene around a postcode on one screen — the four things most people check before a viewing.
Stations, stops and the services that actually call there, with step-free access where it is recorded.
We deal in official numbers, not sales talk.
DfE, police.uk, ONS, Land Registry, NHS and Ofcom — national datasets, on their own release schedules.
Every figure names its sourceEverything is joined to a postcode database before you search, rather than calling ten services while you wait.
1.8 million postcodes mappedThree postcode searches a week free, with every tool and comparison included. Premium raises the limit and adds alerts, digests and history.
No ads, no selling searchesBuilt on real UK postcodes, councils and datasets — and honest about which nations each one actually covers.
Coverage stated per toolWe load national datasets on their official release schedules and join them to a UK-wide postcode database. That work happens before you search, which is why a postcode answers in seconds rather than spinning while we call ten services.
We import national datasets — DfE schools, police.uk crime, Land Registry sales, NHS services, Ofcom coverage — on their official release schedules.
Everything is joined to our national postcode database, so any UK postcode answers instantly with data for exactly that spot.
Reports, tools and maps that name every source and its last refresh date. Nothing is estimated to look complete.
Put two shortlisted postcodes side by side on the same measures and see the trade-offs plainly.
Save the areas you care about and get alerts when something changes.
Core searches are free with an account. Premium funds the site — no ads, no selling your searches.
A move is months of admin, not one afternoon of research. These are free with an account, and they carry on being useful long after you have picked an area.
Add your registration once. We watch the official DVSA MOT dates and email you before it expires.
Open my garageCouncil tax, meter readings, school places, GP registration. The 41 things people forget, in the order they matter. Free, and it saves as you tick.
Open the checklistCompare areas side by side, unlock history charts, and get an email when something changes in an area you follow. Monthly or yearly, cancel anytime.
See pricingMost postcode lookup sites tell you where a postcode is. MoveCompass tells you what it is like to live there. Check my postcode, and you get the nearest schools with their inspection results, recorded crime by month, GP surgeries and pharmacies, rail and bus stops, food hygiene ratings, broadband coverage, sold house prices and the local MP — on one page, from the same national datasets councils and estate agents use.
The postcode finder works for the whole UK postcode spine, around 1.8 million live postcodes. Coverage of each dataset depends on who publishes it: police.uk street crime covers England, Wales and Northern Ireland, Land Registry sold prices cover England and Wales, and Ofsted covers England. Every tool says where it applies, so a missing figure is never passed off as a zero.
A free account includes three postcode searches a week with every tool included. No card is needed to sign up.
Every figure names its publisher — DfE, Ofsted, police.uk, NHS, HM Land Registry, Ofcom, ONS or the Food Standards Agency.
A single postcode check opens the full area report and every individual tool for that area.
Your postcode is on any letter, bill or council tax statement addressed to your home. If you know your street but not the postcode, Royal Mail’s free postcode finder on royalmail.com will find it; once you have it, enter it above to see what the official data says about the area.
Enter it in the search box. The area report opens with a map pinned to the centre of the postcode, which is usually within a street or two of every address it covers.
Yes. A free account gives you three postcode searches a week, and every tool and the full area report are included. Premium raises the limit and adds alerts, history and comparisons over time.
Here it shows schools and Ofsted ratings, recorded crime, GP surgeries, pharmacies and dentists, hospitals, rail and bus stops, sold house prices, council tax, broadband and mobile coverage, food hygiene ratings, EV chargers and the local MP.
Every postcode in England, Wales and Scotland can be searched. Some datasets stop at a border because their publisher does — the tool pages say which nations each one covers.
Movers and van operators listed by area, with their vehicle, what they carry and what insurance we saw. You contact them directly — we take no commission and no booking fee, and we are not part of the arrangement.
Movers, plumbers, electricians, gas engineers, cleaners and the rest — each one checked before it appeared. Search by the job you need doing, or browse by trade.
Know before you move — schools, safety, prices, transport and more, from official UK data.
Ranked on Progress 8 — how far pupils come between primary and GCSE, not raw results.
Ranked on how much pupils improve between primary and their GCSEs, not on raw results — which mostly reflect who a school admits.
Progress 8 compares each pupil with others who started at the same level. Zero is the national average, and this covers 2023/24. This list is England. Each nation is ranked within itself on the measure it publishes — Scotland and Northern Ireland are in the full table, and Wales is still to come.
Plain-English guides to reading UK area data: what inspection judgements actually mean, why crime maps mislead, and the deadlines worth putting in your calendar.
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