Data sources and licences
Every national figure on TrackBritain comes from a UK public body and is free to reuse. This page names each publisher, links its licence, and reproduces the attribution wording the licence asks for.
How we use this data
- We are not affiliated with any of these organisations and nothing here is endorsed by them.
- Where we work a figure out ourselves rather than reproducing a published one, we say so and show how.
- Every page that shows a figure names its publisher and its licence, not just this page.
Publishers (9)
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Data reproduced without endorsement. TrackBritain is not affiliated with the Office for National Statistics.
Used for: CPI inflation, RPI inflation, Food inflation, The price level, CPIH inflation, Unemployment rate, Employment rate, Average weekly pay, Average weekly pay, after inflation, Pay growth, The size of the economy, Economic growth, Economic inactivity, Job vacancies, Claimant count, Government debt, Retail sales, Monthly output
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Data reproduced without endorsement. TrackBritain is not affiliated with the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities or the Department of Health and Social Care.
Used for: Adult obesity, Overweight or obese adults, Child obesity, Year 6, Child obesity, Reception, Adult smoking, Life expectancy, men, Life expectancy, women, Healthy life expectancy, men, Healthy life expectancy, women, Physically active adults, Inactive adults, Five a day, Air pollution
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and data from the Bank of England Interactive Statistical Database. TrackBritain is not affiliated with the Bank of England.
Used for: Bank Rate, Two year fixed mortgage, Five year fixed mortgage, Instant access savings rate, One year fixed bond rate, Standard variable rate, SONIA overnight rate, Mortgage approvals, Consumer credit growth, Money supply growth
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Data reproduced without endorsement. TrackBritain is not affiliated with the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero.
Used for: Petrol price, Diesel price, Greenhouse gas emissions, Renewable electricity, Emissions from electricity, Emissions from transport, Emissions from buildings, Emissions from farming, Renewable electricity generated, Renewable capacity
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Data reproduced without endorsement. TrackBritain is not affiliated with the Office for National Statistics.
Used for: Life satisfaction, Feeling worthwhile, Happiness, Anxiety, Total crime, Violent crime, Theft, Domestic burglary, Criminal damage, Crime including fraud
Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Used for: Average house price, House price change, First time buyer price, Homes sold
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains Met Office data. Source: Met Office, Hollis, D., McCarthy, M., Kendon, M., Legg, T., Simpson, I. (2018): HadUK-Grid gridded and regional average climate observations for the UK, Centre for Environmental Data Analysis. TrackBritain is not affiliated with the Met Office.
Used for: UK temperature, UK rainfall, UK sunshine
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Data reproduced without endorsement. TrackBritain is not affiliated with NHS England.
Used for: NHS waiting list, Treated within 18 weeks, Median NHS wait
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Data reproduced without endorsement. TrackBritain is not affiliated with Ofgem.
Used for: Energy price cap, Energy cap, prepayment
What we do not use
Some obvious datasets are missing on purpose. These were checked and ruled out, and the reasons are here so the question stays settled.
- Bank of England exchange rates (XUDL series)
- The Bank's legal page excludes selected FX series from the OGL because they are reproduced under licence from a third party (LSEG). Revisit with ECB reference rates, which are free with acknowledgement, if FX is ever wanted.
- A single 'UK average BMI' figure
- It does not exist. Each nation runs its own health survey with different methods, and Wales is self-reported. We ship the England figure from the Health Survey for England and badge it England. Scotland could be a separate tracker later.
- Sport England Active Lives, taken directly
- Good data, but under Sport England's own licence. Taking the same figures via Fingertips puts them under the OGL and removes the question.
- Rightmove, Zoopla, Halifax and Nationwide house price indices
- Proprietary. The UK House Price Index is the official open one.
- Gallup, YouGov and Ipsos wellbeing or approval polling
- Proprietary; polling houses licence for a fee. ONS personal wellbeing is the open equivalent and is already here.
- Google Trends
- The terms prohibit redistribution of the raw series.
- Trading Economics, Statista and similar aggregators
- Paid, and they are repackaging the primary sources we already use.
- Crime 'near me' by latitude and longitude
- It depends on each visitor's own location, so it cannot be a committed snapshot, and this site does not fetch at runtime. Force-level monthly counts ship instead.
- Weekly COVID metrics
- The UKHSA dashboards are OGL, but the series are discontinued or downgraded. Not a sound basis for a long-term tracker.
- Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish crime data
- Different recording systems. police.uk covers England, Wales and NI; Police Scotland publishes separately. Could be added later as separate, correctly-badged cards.