Websites to research local areas

[DecemberTherapy]

I can't for the life of me find it by googling.

I used to see a number of which you can put in postcodes and get local area socio-demographic info, crime rates etc. It's not the met police site.

I'm not quite sure it's the sort of thing you are looking for, but you can look up an area's Index of Multiple Deprivation, which ranks it based on a number of sociodemographic characteristics. Google IMD calculator. There are lots of websites that do it if it's that sort of information you are looking for. You will have to be able to understand what the rankings mean though, so it might take a bit of reading.

Otherwise, to actually learn about an area, local Facebook groups and newsletters are really valuable to get a feel for the sort of place it is, whether there is a community, petty crime issues, local resources.

That was Upmystreet.com, sadly long gone, it was great

the ACORN classifications which are the pithy neighbourhood descriptions like "metropolitan professionals" and "older people, neat and tidy" are on acorn.caci.co.uk/

Streetcheck does similar. Also aboutmypostcode. Probably others too? Just put any postcode into Google and the first results are usually the sort of thing you're after.

Yes streetcheck is it! Thank you! Also like postcodearea.

The CDRC map is quite good for deprivation index.