Numberhood

The Numberhood app for iPhone and iPad shows how your local area fares on the important issues – the economy, unemployment, education, health, crime, housing and community strength. Data is shown for key issues and indicators, with data charts and descriptions to help you understand patterns and trends.

Key features include:

• Data for all Local Authorities in England, allowing you to compare your area with others, and explore trends over time
• Data visuals include line-charts, bar-charts and tables
• Text description of the key data features for every area
• Free download for the Overview theme, with in-app purchase to access all ten themes and 80+ indicators
• Regular updates to the data.

Possible users of Numberhood include:

• Local communities, e.g. needing evidence on the local economy, jobs, skills base and so on to challenge local service delivery, support inward business investment etc.
• Councillors, MPs and officers in public sector organisations, e.g. wanting up-to-the-minute data on the local area to set priorities, identifying how the local area fares on outcomes against other areas (current position and recent trends), and commissioning local services.
• Researchers and students: quantitative summary of the local area, in comparison with other areas.
• House-movers: Wanting info on the local area they are moving into.

Numberhood is currently available for iPhone/ iPad from the App Store, with Android and Blackberry versions in future. The free app covers 11 headline indicators, with an in-app purchase (£1.49p half price introductory offer) opening up 70 more indicators.