Side-by-side

Compare two UK postcodes.

Council tax. Schools. Crime. Air quality. Flood risk. Broadband. Twenty more. Two postcodes, one screen, every figure sourced from official UK government data — connected with cross-row reasoning, the better-value side flagged on every row, the patterns explained. Beyond the comparison, the analysis.

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Family-buyer pair
SW18 1PB vs SW19 1AB
Wandsworth vs Wimbledon — council tax, schools, parks
Inner-North contrast
NW1 4HB vs N1 9GU
Camden vs Islington — council tax, air, schools
North-vs-south riverside
SE1 9SG vs SE16 7DX
London Bridge vs Surrey Quays — flood, transport, broadband

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Each metric — council tax, crime, schools, broadband, flood risk, air quality and more — appears side by side with the better value highlighted. Same data sources as the full Truely report, none of the scrolling.

Tip: every postcode page has a Truely Twins section. Click a twin → it opens a comparison pre-filled with both postcodes.

What appears on every comparison

Nine rows, each sourced from an official UK government dataset under the Open Government Licence v3.0. No proprietary scoring, no opaque rankings — just the figures, side by side, with the better value flagged.

Council tax
Band D rate for the local authority each postcode sits in. Sourced from each council's official 2025/26 budget setting.
Deprivation (IMD)
English Indices of Multiple Deprivation 2019 decile, at LSOA level. 10 = least deprived, 1 = most.
Air quality
Annual mean PM2.5 and NO₂ at postcode level, from DEFRA's Pollution Climate Mapping model.
Broadband
Ofcom Connected Nations availability mix — gigabit, ultrafast, superfast tiers at the address.
Flood risk
Environment Agency worst-band rating for rivers/sea and surface water, at postcode level.
Crime
police.uk recorded incidents within ~500m in the past 12 months, all categories combined.
Greenspace
Ordnance Survey Open Greenspace — distance and size of the nearest publicly accessible park.
Side-by-side, swappable
Use the swap button between the postcodes to flip A and B. The URL updates so the comparison is shareable.

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