Open Data

Boundary shapefiles

GLA High Street boundaries

Boundaries of High Streets developed by the Regeneration team at the Greater London Authority. They reflect the wider uses of High Streets including community, public and cultural, in addition to concentrations of retail units. Boundaries are available as a downloadable CSV or can be viewed using an interactive map.

GLA Town Centre boundaries

Town centres provide a range of commercial, cultural and civic activities, including shopping, leisure, employment, entertainment, culture, and social and community facilities. There are five broad types of town centres according to their scales and roles: International centres, Metropolitan centres, Major centres, District centres and Neighbourhood and more local centres.

London Business Improvement Districts (BID) boundaries

Town centres provide a range of commercial, cultural and civic activities, including shopping, leisure, employment, entertainment, culture, and social and community facilities. There are five broad types of town centres according to their scales and roles: International centres, Metropolitan centres, Major centres, District centres and Neighbourhood and more local centres.

Central Activities Zone (CAZ) boundary

The Central Activities Zone covers London’s geographic, economic and administrative core. It’s unique combination of uses should be promoted and enhanced while also improving its environment and attractiveness for residents, visitors and businesses alike.

Covid-19 Data (Archive)

Google activity by Borough

Anonymised and Aggregated data collected by Google has been provided to public authorities to inform their COVID-19 response. An index for each Borough against a baseline of Jan 2020 is provided for 6 common location types:

• Retail and recreation
• Grocery and pharmacy
• Parks
• Transit stations
• Workplaces
• Residential

London COVID-19 Resilience Dashboard

This Dashboard brings together a range of outcome data to monitor the impact of Covid-19 on the lives of Londoners. It has been designed to meet a wide range of user needs and to provide a transparent overview across a broad range of social and economic outcomes.

Covid-19 Restrictions Time Series

National and local restrictions and policies affecting London, by date. Supplied as an experimental dataset to provide context for analysis of other social or economic datasets, for instance, footfall and spend data timeseries. Information was mainly gathered from government announcements published by the Prime Minister’s Office.

Coronavirus Mobility Report

Since March 2020, London has seen many different levels of restrictions – including three separate lockdowns and many other tiers/levels of restrictions, as well as easing of restrictions and even measures to actively encourage people to go to work, their high streets and local restaurants. This reports gathers data from a number of sources, including google, apple, citymapper, purple wifi and opentable to assess the extent to which these levels of restrictions have translated to a reductions in Londoners’ movements.