StreetCheck has closed. What to use instead
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If you go to streetcheck.co.uk today you do not land on StreetCheck. Any postcode URL now returns a permanent redirect to crystalroof.co.uk, which acquired it.
If what you actually wanted was free data about a postcode, all of it is still published by the government, for nothing, by the same bodies that always published it. StreetCheck was a convenient front door onto public data — not the source. Here is where each piece lives.
Where each thing is now, free
| What you used StreetCheck for | Where it is now | What it covers |
|---|---|---|
| Recorded crime near a postcode | police.uk, and the raw data at data.police.uk | Street-level records by month, England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Counts, not rates. |
| How deprived an area is | Local Deprivation Explorer, MHCLG | A page for every one of England's neighbourhoods, all seven domains, with a postcode lookup. Indices of Deprivation 2025. |
| What homes actually sold for | Price Paid Data, HM Land Registry | Every registered sale in England and Wales since 1995, searchable by postcode. |
| Who lives there | Census 2021 maps, ONS | Age, household composition, tenure, qualifications, country of birth, religion, at neighbourhood resolution. |
| Local schools | School performance tables, GOV.UK | Results, Ofsted judgements and finances for every state school in England. |
| Air quality | UK-AIR, Defra | Measurements from the national monitoring network, plus modelled background maps. |
| Flood risk | Check long term flood risk, GOV.UK | Risk from rivers, sea, surface water and reservoirs, by postcode. |
Those seven are the answer if you only need one thing. Bookmark them; they are authoritative, and they will still be there in five years.
The catch with using them directly
They are seven separate sites, and they do not agree with each other about geography. Police records are snapped to anonymised points. Deprivation is published for areas of about 1,500 people. Price Paid is per address but says nothing about the street around it. Census figures come on their own boundaries. Air quality is modelled on a grid.
So answering something as ordinary as "is this a better place to live than that one" means opening seven tabs, holding five different geographies in your head, and doing the arithmetic none of them do for you — starting with dividing crime counts by population, because police.uk publishes counts and not rates, and a big area will always look worse than a small one until you do.
What Balworth does with them
Balworth puts them on one map of England at neighbourhood resolution, coloured so a place ranks against every other place in the country rather than against nothing. Crime is a rate per 1,000 residents, weighted by how seriously the courts treat each offence, so one robbery does not count the same as one stolen bicycle. Deprivation is the 2025 release, not 2019. Prices, census, air quality and 77,000 places sit on the same colours, so you can see where they disagree with each other.
The map is free to open and needs no account. England Pro unlocks every layer for £4.99 a month, cancel anytime.
What it will not tell you
Every figure on Balworth describes a neighbourhood of roughly 1,500 people, never a street, a building or a household. If you need the history of one address, Price Paid Data above is the right tool and Balworth is the wrong one.
And one gap worth knowing about. data.police.uk is a voluntary publication, and Greater Manchester Police is not currently supplying it. So Balworth shows no crime data at all for Bolton, Bury, Manchester, Oldham, Rochdale, Salford, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford and Wigan — rather than a colour that would wrongly read as very low. Any tool that divides almost no records by the population will tell you those are the safest places in England. They are not; nobody is publishing. The full explanation is on our data page.
Read the full data and methodology ↗ — every source, when it was collected, how it is processed and where it falls down.