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Aircraft and road noise, air quality and flood risk for any postcode in the UK city regions we cover, with the public body behind each figure.
97council areas in 13 UK city regions, New York's 5 boroughs and 50 Bay Area cities
How loud are the planes where you want to live?
Type a postcode or a place and get the official noise and air figures for that street, with the flight routes that pass it.
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Which places does it cover?
- Bristol 4
- Cardiff 4
- Greater Manchester 10
- Greater Norwich 3
- Leicester 8
- London 33
- Merseyside 5
- Nottingham 4
- South Yorkshire 4
- Teesside 5
- Tyne and Wear 5
- West Midlands 7
- West Yorkshire 5
Your answer
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What the choices mean
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Four ways to use it
Find an area that fits
Set a budget and what you want to avoid or be near, such as aircraft noise, busy roads, flood risk or a station, and see which council areas fit, shaded on the map.
6things to avoid or want, plus your budget
Reports for your street
One page of the official figures for the streets you name. Free for your own home and for residents' groups; for buying agents and surveyors, a sourced answer to hand to a client.
1 pageevery number with its source and its date
Data for your business
The same figures through an API, in your own system, or as one open file of every UK council area, free for non-commercial use, to rank and compare.
10,000lookups a month on the free tier
For developers: the same figures, one request away
Send a postcode and get back the score, its five components and the source of every figure, as JSON. The noise and air figures at any point need no key at all.
The score for a postcode (with a free key)
curl 'https://2gjfdzg20c.execute-api.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/prod/v1/score?postcode=TW9+3PZ' \ -H 'X-Api-Key: YOUR_KEY'
Noise and air at a point (no key needed)
curl 'https://2gjfdzg20c.execute-api.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/prod/v1/environment?lat=51.4790&lon=-0.2860'
Who it is for
Choosing a home
Buying or renting
Find the areas that fit your budget, then check a street before a viewing. Free to search.
Working with homes and places
- Buying agents and relocation firmsA sourced answer before the client asks.See pricing →
- Conveyancers and surveyorsAdd aircraft noise to the reports you already produce.Use the API →
- Islamic home financeEnvironmental checks with an affordability measure that uses prices only.Use the API →
- Residents' groupsStart a bid from the official baseline.Browse council areas →
- Researchers and journalistsOne open, documented file.Get the open data →
Bring your own postcodes
In 30 minutes we go through the places you work with: the figures for each, and where every one comes from. Nothing to prepare.
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