Open data
Every UK area Sky Score covers, in one file: the published score, its five components and the measurements behind them. 97 areas across 13 city regions. Prices: August 2026 UK House Price Index. Methodology version 5.7.
Download sky-score-boroughs.csv (CSV)
Licence and attribution
Sky Score’s scores in this file are released under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0: free to use, share and adapt for non-commercial purposes, with credit to "Sky Score (skyscore.co.uk)". In addition, journalists may publish figures, tables and charts from it in news reporting, including in commercial publications, and academic researchers may use it in published research, in each case with that credit. Reselling the dataset, redistributing it in bulk for commercial purposes, or building it into a commercial product or service needs written permission: support@skyscore.co.uk.
Built from official public data. Most of it is used under the Open Government Licence v3.0; the aircraft noise estimate also uses the flight routes of the UK Aeronautical Information Publication (NATS), which is public but not openly licensed. If you reuse this file, please also credit the original publishers: DEFRA (noise and air quality), the Environment Agency (flood risk), ONS (crime, postcode lookup), the Department for Education (Progress 8), HM Land Registry (prices), the Department for Transport (NaPTAN), the NHS Organisation Data Service (GP practices) and the UK AIP, NATS (flight routes).
What each column means
| Column | Meaning |
|---|---|
city | Sky Score city key |
city_name | City region |
borough | Borough or district, as Sky Score names it |
ons_code | ONS local authority code, for joining to other datasets |
coverage | "map and API", or "API preview" for areas not yet on the map |
score | Sky Score, 0-10 (10 is best), with the balanced weighting |
quiet | Quiet skies component, 0-10 (higher is quieter) |
afford | Affordability component, 0-10, national log scale |
growth | Price growth component, 0-10, real terms |
live | Liveability component, 0-10 |
env | Environment component, 0-10 (air, road noise, flood) |
avg_price_gbp | Average price, HM Land Registry UK House Price Index |
price_trend_pct | 12-month price change, nominal, % |
price_trend_real_pct | 12-month price change after ONS CPIH inflation, % |
crime_per_1000 | Recorded offences excluding fraud per 1,000 residents, ONS Table C4 |
progress8 | DfE Progress 8, 2023/24 (England only; blank where not published) |
rail_within_800m_pct | Share of postcodes within 800 m of a rail, metro or tram stop (NaPTAN), % |
healthcare_within_500m_pct | Share of postcodes within 500 m of a GP practice (NHS Organisation Data Service), % |
air_quality_who_ratio | Worse of NO2 and PM2.5 as a multiple of the WHO 2021 guideline (DEFRA) |
no2_ugm3 | Nitrogen dioxide, borough average of the DEFRA background annual mean, ug/m3 (WHO guideline 10; blank for API-preview areas) |
pm25_ugm3 | Fine particles (PM2.5), borough average of the DEFRA background annual mean, ug/m3 (WHO guideline 5; blank for API-preview areas) |
road_noise_above_who_pct | Share of postcodes above the WHO 53 dB Lden road guideline (DEFRA Round 4), % |
flood_medium_or_high_pct | Share of postcodes at Medium or High flood risk (Environment Agency, Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea), % |
methodology_version | Sky Score methodology version the scores were computed under |
price_vintage | UK House Price Index month the prices are from |
Read before using
These are borough-wide figures; a single address can differ, and aircraft noise especially varies by 10-15 dB within a borough. DEFRA's noise maps describe 2021, a lockdown year: its Heathrow 55 dB contour is about half the area of the Civil Aviation Authority's 2025 figure. Blank cells mean a figure is not published for that area, never zero. The method behind every column is in the methodology, and the same figures are available per postcode through the API.