What's an area like? Check any UK postcode
Moving, opening a shop or visiting somewhere new? Official open data answers the practical questions: how much street crime there is, what nearby food businesses scored, and what houses sold for. From $0.003 a lookup.
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What you can find out from a postcode
- Crime: street-level crime within about a mile in the latest published month, by category and outcome (area profile, $0.01).
- Food hygiene: Food Standards Agency ratings for restaurants, takeaways and shops, with the inspection date (food hygiene, $0.005).
- House prices: sold prices in England and Wales since 1995 from HM Land Registry, with the median and yearly trend (house prices, $0.01).
- The basics: council, ward, constituency and coordinates (postcode lookup, $0.003).
- All of it at once: the area report ($0.10) combines them with a short written summary.
Reading the numbers sensibly
Crime counts depend on how many people pass through an area, not just how many live there: a city-centre postcode with shops and stations will always show more than a quiet suburb. Compare similar areas, and look at the categories, not just the total.
Police data is published monthly, a couple of months behind. House prices come from completed sales registered with HM Land Registry, so the latest months fill in over time.
Ask your AI assistant
Add the tools to Claude or Cursor on the set-up page, then ask in plain words, for example "What's crime like around PL6 8RU, and what did houses sell for there last year?"
Statistics, not people
These tools return official statistics and business ratings only. Crime locations are the police's anonymised map positions; house prices are published sales records. We don't look up individuals.
Live example
Live area profile for SW1A 1AA
Free, no sign-up: a real answer from our own health check for this input. Your own questions cost $0.01 a call, and the first 20 a day are free in Claude or Cursor.
https://aayatai.com/uk/area?postcode=SW1A+1AA Ask your AI assistant
Once it's added, just ask in plain words. For example:
What's crime like around PL6 8RU, and what did houses sell for there recently?Get a free key and add it All tools and prices
Tools on this page
5 of these 6 are in the free trial (20 calls a day over MCP). Prices come straight from our live price list; failed calls are never charged.
| Tool | What it answers | Price per call |
|---|---|---|
| UK area | UK area profile for a postcode or postcode district (e.g. SW1A): local authorities, wards and constituencies, plus street-level crime in the latest published month within about a mile, counted by category and outcome. | $0.01free to try |
| UK food hygiene | UK food hygiene ratings (Food Standards Agency) for restaurants, takeaways, shops and other food businesses: rating (0-5 or Pass/Improvement Required in Scotland), inspection date, hygiene/structural/management scores, address and location. | $0.005free to try |
| UK house prices | Sold house prices for any England or Wales postcode from HM Land Registry Price Paid data (1995 to date): each sale's price, date, address, property type (detached, semi, terraced, flat), new build and tenure, plus median/average/min/max and yearly medians. | $0.01free to try |
| UK postcode | UK postcode lookup: coordinates, country, region, local authority, ward, parish, parliamentary constituency, LSOA/MSOA and official ONS codes. | $0.003free to try |
| Report area | UK area report for a postcode in one call: local authority, ward and constituency, street crime by category (latest month), house-price statistics (sales at the postcode: median, range, by year), food-hygiene ratings of nearby businesses, and a short AI summary. | $0.10 |
| Postcode lookup | Postal code to place name, region and latitude/longitude in about 60 countries (US ZIP codes, UK postcodes, Canada, Germany, France, India, Japan, Australia...). | $0.001free to try |
Questions people ask
Where does the data come from?
Official open data under the Open Government Licence: police.uk for crime, the Food Standards Agency for hygiene ratings, HM Land Registry for sold prices and the ONS postcode directory (via postcodes.io) for areas.
Does it cover Scotland and Northern Ireland?
Postcodes, councils and food hygiene cover the whole UK (Scotland uses Pass / Improvement Required ratings). House prices cover England and Wales only, and police.uk street crime covers England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
How much does it cost?
From $0.003 a call, charged only when the lookup succeeds. In Claude or Cursor the first 20 calls a day are free, with no sign-up.
Postcodes outside the UK?
The postcode lookup ($0.001) turns postal codes in about 60 countries into a place name and coordinates.
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