Welcome to the Datastore

The London Datastore is  a free and open data-sharing portal  where anyone can access data relating to the capital.  Whether you’re a citizen, business owner, researcher or developer, the site provides over 500 datasets to help you understand the city and develop solutions to London’s problems.Please do have a look around, and let us know what you think.

We are proud to be the winners of the 2015 ODI Open Data Publisher Award.

What’s New

Blog

  • img_0786 November 4, 2016Organising and Mobilising for Change: Observations and Lessons from America’s leading Data Cities - Last week I attended a gathering of the Civic Analytics Network.  This was an incredibly useful and hard-working event, supported by the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at the Harvard Kennedy School. This quick report sets out a series of observations and reactions.  If you are interested in increasing data and digital capabilities … Read More »
  • pexels-photo2 October 20, 2016The GLA’s data science journey - Over the past couple of years the Greater London Authority has been developing its data science capacity. This blog post aims to give a brief snapshot of where we are and where we are headed, in terms of skills, organisation and infrastructure. Skills The Intelligence Unit at the GLA comprises a number of teams with … Read More »
  • City-Hall-School-Visit--004 September 26, 2016School rolls projection: moving foRward - 2016 has seen some big changes in our school roll projections service with the development of a new projection model which has been written in the statistical programming language R, allowing us to harness R’s power to make use of much bigger datasets and a more complex model. Every year the GLA intelligence unit produces … Read More »
  • phone data. small September 21, 2016Where to draw the Line in Use of Personal Data? A New Experiment to understand Public Acceptance and a Call for Help -   Today – sometimes knowingly, most of the time almost certainly not – people share, or depending on your point of view, give away, the data they create simply as a result of passing through a normal day. This data is drawn from a wide array of sources, in both the public and private sectors, … Read More »
  • DSC00201 August 15, 2016Developing Data Infrastructure for London - Earlier this year we published the Implementation Plan for the GLA’s City Data Strategy. The Implementation Plan is a key organising element of our work, needed for the realisation of the priority actions we have set out in our strategy, all of which are designed to help us to deliver maximum social, economic, environmental and … Read More »
  • A general view of City Hall, photographed with a tilt/shift lens on 04.01.16 August 12, 2016London Office of Data Analytics Pilot: two weeks of showing and telling to focus the data science and sharpen the overall approach - It’s been 6 weeks since our kickoff workshop for the London Office of Data Analytics (LODA) pilot programme, a joint venture between the GLA and Nesta, with involvement from nearly half of the London boroughs.  The broader context shows a real sense of growing intent and purpose around data sharing for impact.  In the same … Read More »
  • for datastore July 28, 2016Offices of Data Analytics: next steps for London and the North East - As announced in previous blogs, Nesta is working with the GLA and more than a dozen boroughs in London – and with local authorities, the Digital Catapult and Sunderland Software City in the North East – to pilot data analytics projects that address public service challenges. This post provides a brief update on the latest … Read More »
  • header July 7, 2016London Office of Data Analytics: Documenting the Learning Process - As regular readers of this blog will know, the GLA and Nesta are working together to run a pilot to demonstrate that performing data analytics on datasets sourced from multiple local authorities and other novel sources can help reform public services in the capital. This short blog provides a link through to a more detailed … Read More »
  • fall back July 4, 2016Sharing Cities Update: What on earth is a SEMS and why does it matter? - ‘SEMS’ (Sustainable Energy Management System) is a key deliverable of the Sharing Cities programme. At its simplest, SEMS is the joining up of smart energy infrastructure and services (e.g. a river source heat pump and associated district heating scheme) with a data platform (in the case of Sharing Cities, our Urban Sharing Platform).  Achieving the … Read More »
  • frtfryhd June 30, 2016Three lessons on City Data Analytics from Mike Flowers - I’ve previously written about plans by the GLA’s Andrew Collinge and Nesta to run a pilot for a London Office of Data Analytics, inspired by the Mayor’s Office of Data Analytics (MODA) in New York City. Last week saw significant progress when 15 London boroughs came together for a workshop with the GLA to select a … Read More »

Data

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    Camera Captures and Confirmed Vehicles seen in the Congestion Charge Zone by...

    Camera Captures and Confirmed Vehicles seen in the Congestion Charge Zone by Month Camera Captures and Confirmed Vehicles seen in the Congestion Charge Zone by Month during charging hours. Camera Captures since July 2010 and Confirmed Vehicles since...
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    • Greater London
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    Young People Not in Employment, Education or Training, Borough

    Table shows number and proportion of young people aged 16-18 who are not in employment, education or training (NEET). Also in the spreadsheet are figures for those aged 16-24 by region and 'NUTS2/3' areas. These tables now relate to academic age 16-18...
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    • Local Authority
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    Nationality estimates (2004-2015), Borough

    In July 2015 ONS released re-weighted (in light of the 2011 Census) population estimates by nationality by local authority (2004-2013).  This was followed in August 2015 by estimates for 2014.  Data is now available for 2015. An accompanying...
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    • Greater London
    • Local Authority
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    Country of birth estimates (2004-2015), Borough

    In July 2015 ONS released re-weighted (in light of the 2011 Census) country of birth population estimates by local authority (2004-2013).  This was followed in August 2015 by country of birth estimates for 2014.  Data is now available for 2015....
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    • Greater London  (3)
    • Local Authority  (3)
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    London Atmospheric Emissions Inventory 2013

    The LAEI 2013 is the latest version of the London Atmospheric Emissions Inventory and replaces the previous versions. Estimates of key pollutants (NOx, PM10, PM2.5 and CO2) are included for the base year 2013 and projected forward to 2020, 2025, and...
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    • Greater London

Apps & Analysis

  • labour-market-980x170 November 16, 2016London labour market update for London – November 2016 - Latest figures show London’s employment rate at a record high and London’s unemployment rate at a record low London’s employment rate (i.e. the proportion of London’s resident working age population in employment) in the three months to September 2016 increased by 0.1 percentage points on the previous quarter to 73.6 per cent (up 1.1 percentage … Read More »
  • labour-market-980x170 October 19, 2016Labour market update for London – October 2016 - Latest figures show London’s employment rate remains at high levels Despite a slight fall in the numbers in employment, London’s employment rate (i.e. the proportion of London’s resident working age population in employment) in the three months to August 2016 remained unchanged on the previous quarter at 73.3 per cent, and up by 0.7 percentage … Read More »
  • money September 29, 2016Falling Workless Households in London - London, along with other regions in the south of England, has a lower proportion of households (with at least one person aged 16-64) with no-one in work. Previously, London has had higher levels of workless households, but both the number and the proportion of such households have decreased with the proportion falling lower than the … Read More »
  • labour-market-980x170 September 14, 2016Labour market update for London – September 2016 - Latest figures show a record level of jobs based in London The number of workforce jobs in London (i.e. the number of jobs located in London, whether or not they are taken by residents of London), reached 5.732 million in Q2 2016 (i.e. up to June 2016) – a new high since the measure began … Read More »
  • global-cities-980 September 1, 2016Comparing London with other global cities - By Mark Wingham A common question we get asked at the GLA is how does London compare with other international cities. Many comparisons between London and other global cities to date have focused on particular topics or sectors, such as tourism and foreign direct investment. These comparisons have been outlined in Chapter 3 of the … Read More »
  • labour-market-980x170 August 25, 2016Labour market update for London – August 2016 - Latest figures show continued record levels of employment London’s employment rate (i.e. the proportion of London’s resident working age population in employment) in the three months to June 2016 increased to 73.5 per cent – up by 0.2 percentage points on the previous quarter, and up by 1.2 percentage points on a year earlier. This … Read More »
  • City hall with The Shard and More London in the background, photographed on 31.10.14 July 21, 2016Local authority level gross value added estimates for London, 1997-2014 - By Gordon Douglass, Supervisory Economist In December 2015, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) released provisional estimates of regional, sub-regional and local gross value added (GVA) for 2014[1]. These data showed that in 2014, London’s total GVA was over £364 billion, up 6.8 per cent on 2013. London now accounts for 22.5 per cent[2] of … Read More »
  • labour-market-980x170 July 20, 2016Labour market update for London – July 2016 - Latest figures show a record low in London’s unemployment rate alongside continued record levels of employment. London’s employment rate (i.e. the proportion of London’s resident working age population in employment) in the three months to May 2016 increased to 73.4 per cent – up by 0.4 percentage points on the previous quarter, and up by … Read More »
  • St Pauls Cathedral taken for the London Curriculum Students Trail on 03.06.15 July 11, 2016Long-run employment projections for London 2016 - In June, GLA Economics published its latest employment projections for London, and the supporting data on London Datastore. The projections use updated data to project the number of jobs in London broken down by sector and at the borough level. To support these judgements GLA Economics has developed a longer back series of employment and … Read More »
  • polling-station-0142 June 29, 2016EU Referendum Results: A Demographic Breakdown - Note: The analysis provided is by no means comprehensive and simply aims to provide some early pointers as to the relationship between socio-demographic factors and vote share in the Referendum. On the 23rd of June the British public were asked if the United Kingdom should remain a member of the European Union or leave. The … Read More »

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