How Indeval works
Authoritative source data, combined with clearly labelled Indeval analysis.
A useful area report should show its workings. Indeval connects each conclusion to the dataset, the geography, and the date behind it.
What this hub is for
Use these pages to check a figure, understand the Area Score, or see why two nearby postcodes can differ. The Area Score describes lived context. Market figures sit beside it.
What Indeval measures, and what it does not
An Indeval report describes the life and context around a property: setting, recorded crime, flood-planning zone, nearby rated services, broadband coverage, and market figures shown separately.
It is not a survey, a valuation, a mortgage offer, or advice to buy, sell or rent. Price, rent, yield, affordability and Bank Rate sit in market context. They are not inputs to the Area Score.
Scoring covers England. Statistical boundaries are not the same as a street name people use locally. Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland are outside the scored model.
How a report is built
Four steps. No hidden second score.
Collect
We start with authoritative published datasets: Land Registry, ONS, Ofsted, Police.uk, the Environment Agency and others listed in Data sources.
Locate
Each figure is tied to a geography that dataset actually supports: a postcode, a small statistical area, or a local authority. We do not pretend every number describes the same front door.
Compare
The Area Score compares similar kinds of place, then summarises setting, safety, community and services. Price is kept out of that number.
Explain
The report labels the source, the area, and the as-at date. Where evidence is thin or modelled, we say so.
Start here
Area Score
What the number means, and why house price sits beside it.
Data sources
Who publishes each dataset, how they collect it, and how to read it.
Help
Short answers to questions people ask when they open a report.
Insights
Longer explainers about official data: flood zones, EPCs, crime, schools.
Quality and limits
Dates, geographies, missing data, and how to tell us if something looks wrong.
Licensing
Open Government Licence wording, attribution, and non-endorsement.
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