How the evidence is used
The county total covers Hampshire County Council’s 11 districts. Portsmouth and Southampton are separate unitary authorities, shown separately; they are never added to a published county figure.
Council, ward and national comparisons require matching definitions, sources, periods and units. Percentages are not averaged across wards or councils.
Council projects are selected reviewed examples, not an exhaustive programme. Proposals in the action plan are analysis, not approved funding or promised delivery dates.
Additional pay, school absence, life expectancy and claimant figures reuse reviewed UK Facts observations and keep their original source dates. They were not re-fetched during this build. Earnings are survey-based; weekly medians are not annual-pay medians. School absence counts enrolments by school location.
Hampshire means Hampshire County Council area E10000014: 11 districts. Portsmouth and Southampton are separate unitary context, excluded from county totals.
District wards use May 2026 official boundaries. County electoral divisions are different and are not substituted.
County percentages use direct published county numerators/denominators; no average of district percentages.
County mapped crime sums all 11 district counts only when periods and publication-quality checks match. Missing months block dependent totals.
England, Surrey and West Sussex are separate official comparator records; housing and Census comparisons require identical definition, period and units.
Raw source responses and SHA-256 receipts are retained. Data checking and automated validation are not independent AQuA certification.
Checks follow principles in the government’s AQuA Book: define the question and geography, retain the source, check calculations, record uncertainty and connect conclusions to evidence. Automated checks are not independent assurance or certification.
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Evidence version and source coverage
SHA-256: 622621c60a983aa8cad370fad200bc6a5baba32c791d1108c9855a6e8dbfafe9
census: Census 2021; current wards matched directly or reconstructed from official output areas.
crime: 16 wards, 24 retrieved monthly extracts: 2024-09 to 2026-08.
crimePublication: No global no-crime-data or latest-month missing-crime notice was identified for this authority’s force in the checked changelog. This does not guarantee complete reporting.
crimeReporting: These are retrieved mapped records, not a guarantee of complete crime reporting. Approximate locations and unmapped incidents limit comparisons.
crimeTrend: No unresolved missing-crime notice or separately reviewed source break was identified within these requested months. This is not a guarantee of complete reporting.
employment: Five Census 2021 work measures. Residents aged 16+; not current labour-market rates. Pandemic-period results require care.
housePrice: 379 published monthly observations, 1995-01 to 2026-07.
housing: Official UKHPI home prices and private-rent estimates.
monthlyRent: 140 monthly observations; latest 2026-08.
population: 30 of 30 requested annual observations available; latest 2025.
wards: All 16 current official wards included.
Project locations have not been matched to official ward boundaries. No ward-specific delivery claims are inferred.
Costs, funding and benefits are only reported where the selected official evidence states them; blank fields are not zero.
Solar-installation totals cover the district, not just the city. The source’s energy-output wording and forecast bill savings have not been treated as measured outcomes. Lido costs, agreed prices and a confirmed opening date remain unverified.
Selected projects are not the whole Winchester district programme. Action steps are UK Facts proposals, not new council commitments.
Official statistics and data services
Age — Census 2021
Office for National Statistics via Nomis
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21 March 2021. Published local-authority/current-ward counts; changed wards use complete official output-area best-fit sums. Output-area age counts use published five-year age bands. Privacy adjustments can make independently published totals differ slightly.
Open Government Licence v3.0
20 retained source responses. Retrieval dates and hashes are in the downloadable evidence.
Deprivation — Census 2021
Office for National Statistics via Nomis
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21 March 2021. Published local-authority/current-ward counts; changed wards use complete official output-area best-fit sums. Output-area age counts use published five-year age bands. Privacy adjustments can make independently published totals differ slightly.
Open Government Licence v3.0
20 retained source responses. Retrieval dates and hashes are in the downloadable evidence.
Economic activity status — Census 2021 TS066
Office for National Statistics via Nomis
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21 March 2021, residents aged 16 and over. Includes full-time students in the corresponding work/unemployment categories. Not a current labour-market estimate or the usual 16–64 employment rate. Census took place during the coronavirus pandemic; furlough and lockdown affected answers. Ward counts sum complete official output-area best-fit membership; privacy adjustment can make totals differ slightly.
Open Government Licence v3.0
1 retained source responses. Retrieval dates and hashes are in the downloadable evidence.
Health — Census 2021
Office for National Statistics via Nomis
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21 March 2021. Published local-authority/current-ward counts; changed wards use complete official output-area best-fit sums. Output-area age counts use published five-year age bands. Privacy adjustments can make independently published totals differ slightly.
Open Government Licence v3.0
20 retained source responses. Retrieval dates and hashes are in the downloadable evidence.
Population — Census 2021
Office for National Statistics via Nomis
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21 March 2021. Published local-authority/current-ward counts; changed wards use complete official output-area best-fit sums. Output-area age counts use published five-year age bands. Privacy adjustments can make independently published totals differ slightly.
Open Government Licence v3.0
41 retained source responses. Retrieval dates and hashes are in the downloadable evidence.
Qualifications — Census 2021
Office for National Statistics via Nomis
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21 March 2021. Published local-authority/current-ward counts; changed wards use complete official output-area best-fit sums. Output-area age counts use published five-year age bands. Privacy adjustments can make independently published totals differ slightly.
Open Government Licence v3.0
20 retained source responses. Retrieval dates and hashes are in the downloadable evidence.
Tenure — Census 2021
Office for National Statistics via Nomis
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21 March 2021. Published local-authority/current-ward counts; changed wards use complete official output-area best-fit sums. Output-area age counts use published five-year age bands. Privacy adjustments can make independently published totals differ slightly.
Open Government Licence v3.0
20 retained source responses. Retrieval dates and hashes are in the downloadable evidence.
Local authority, community safety partnership and police force lookup, April 2025
Office for National Statistics
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Exact current authority codes mapped to official police-force names; multiple community safety partnerships can share the same authority/force.
Open Government Licence v3.0
1 retained source responses. Retrieval dates and hashes are in the downloadable evidence.
May 2026 Hampshire county, district and ward membership
Office for National Statistics
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Exact official county code E10000014 has 11 districts. Portsmouth and Southampton are separate unitary authorities and are excluded from the county total.
Open Government Licence v3.0
1 retained source responses. Retrieval dates and hashes are in the downloadable evidence.
House prices and private rents: Portsmouth
Office for National Statistics / HM Land Registry
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Official local housing data feed. House prices are provisional, not seasonally adjusted; rents use the Price Index of Private Rents. Local short-term estimates are variable. Country references use only the explicitly country-coded ctry object, never the local place object.
Open Government Licence v3.0
1 retained source responses. Retrieval dates and hashes are in the downloadable evidence.
House prices and private rents: Southampton
Office for National Statistics / HM Land Registry
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Official local housing data feed. House prices are provisional, not seasonally adjusted; rents use the Price Index of Private Rents. Local short-term estimates are variable. Country references use only the explicitly country-coded ctry object, never the local place object.
Open Government Licence v3.0
1 retained source responses. Retrieval dates and hashes are in the downloadable evidence.
House prices and private rents: Basingstoke and Deane
Office for National Statistics / HM Land Registry
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Official local housing data feed. House prices are provisional, not seasonally adjusted; rents use the Price Index of Private Rents. Local short-term estimates are variable. Country references use only the explicitly country-coded ctry object, never the local place object.
Open Government Licence v3.0
1 retained source responses. Retrieval dates and hashes are in the downloadable evidence.
House prices and private rents: East Hampshire
Office for National Statistics / HM Land Registry
Open the official source →Method, licence and retrieval record
Official local housing data feed. House prices are provisional, not seasonally adjusted; rents use the Price Index of Private Rents. Local short-term estimates are variable. Country references use only the explicitly country-coded ctry object, never the local place object.
Open Government Licence v3.0
1 retained source responses. Retrieval dates and hashes are in the downloadable evidence.
House prices and private rents: Eastleigh
Office for National Statistics / HM Land Registry
Open the official source →Method, licence and retrieval record
Official local housing data feed. House prices are provisional, not seasonally adjusted; rents use the Price Index of Private Rents. Local short-term estimates are variable. Country references use only the explicitly country-coded ctry object, never the local place object.
Open Government Licence v3.0
1 retained source responses. Retrieval dates and hashes are in the downloadable evidence.
House prices and private rents: Fareham
Office for National Statistics / HM Land Registry
Open the official source →Method, licence and retrieval record
Official local housing data feed. House prices are provisional, not seasonally adjusted; rents use the Price Index of Private Rents. Local short-term estimates are variable. Country references use only the explicitly country-coded ctry object, never the local place object.
Open Government Licence v3.0
1 retained source responses. Retrieval dates and hashes are in the downloadable evidence.
House prices and private rents: Gosport
Office for National Statistics / HM Land Registry
Open the official source →Method, licence and retrieval record
Official local housing data feed. House prices are provisional, not seasonally adjusted; rents use the Price Index of Private Rents. Local short-term estimates are variable. Country references use only the explicitly country-coded ctry object, never the local place object.
Open Government Licence v3.0
1 retained source responses. Retrieval dates and hashes are in the downloadable evidence.
House prices and private rents: Hart
Office for National Statistics / HM Land Registry
Open the official source →Method, licence and retrieval record
Official local housing data feed. House prices are provisional, not seasonally adjusted; rents use the Price Index of Private Rents. Local short-term estimates are variable. Country references use only the explicitly country-coded ctry object, never the local place object.
Open Government Licence v3.0
1 retained source responses. Retrieval dates and hashes are in the downloadable evidence.
House prices and private rents: Havant
Office for National Statistics / HM Land Registry
Open the official source →Method, licence and retrieval record
Official local housing data feed. House prices are provisional, not seasonally adjusted; rents use the Price Index of Private Rents. Local short-term estimates are variable. Country references use only the explicitly country-coded ctry object, never the local place object.
Open Government Licence v3.0
1 retained source responses. Retrieval dates and hashes are in the downloadable evidence.
House prices and private rents: New Forest
Office for National Statistics / HM Land Registry
Open the official source →Method, licence and retrieval record
Official local housing data feed. House prices are provisional, not seasonally adjusted; rents use the Price Index of Private Rents. Local short-term estimates are variable. Country references use only the explicitly country-coded ctry object, never the local place object.
Open Government Licence v3.0
1 retained source responses. Retrieval dates and hashes are in the downloadable evidence.
House prices and private rents: Rushmoor
Office for National Statistics / HM Land Registry
Open the official source →Method, licence and retrieval record
Official local housing data feed. House prices are provisional, not seasonally adjusted; rents use the Price Index of Private Rents. Local short-term estimates are variable. Country references use only the explicitly country-coded ctry object, never the local place object.
Open Government Licence v3.0
1 retained source responses. Retrieval dates and hashes are in the downloadable evidence.
House prices and private rents: Test Valley
Office for National Statistics / HM Land Registry
Open the official source →Method, licence and retrieval record
Official local housing data feed. House prices are provisional, not seasonally adjusted; rents use the Price Index of Private Rents. Local short-term estimates are variable. Country references use only the explicitly country-coded ctry object, never the local place object.
Open Government Licence v3.0
1 retained source responses. Retrieval dates and hashes are in the downloadable evidence.
House prices and private rents: Winchester
Office for National Statistics / HM Land Registry
Open the official source →Method, licence and retrieval record
Official local housing data feed. House prices are provisional, not seasonally adjusted; rents use the Price Index of Private Rents. Local short-term estimates are variable. Country references use only the explicitly country-coded ctry object, never the local place object.
Open Government Licence v3.0
1 retained source responses. Retrieval dates and hashes are in the downloadable evidence.
House prices and private rents: England
Office for National Statistics / HM Land Registry
Open the official source →Method, licence and retrieval record
Official local housing data feed. House prices are provisional, not seasonally adjusted; rents use the Price Index of Private Rents. Local short-term estimates are variable. Country references use only the explicitly country-coded ctry object, never the local place object.
Open Government Licence v3.0
1 retained source responses. Retrieval dates and hashes are in the downloadable evidence.
Census 2021 output areas to May 2026 wards
Office for National Statistics
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Official best-fit assignments. Whole output areas summed; boundaries can cut output areas.
Open Government Licence v3.0
45 retained source responses. Retrieval dates and hashes are in the downloadable evidence.
May 2026 UK wards and local authorities
Office for National Statistics
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Current ward membership checked independently against the official ward-to-authority lookup; generalised clipped boundaries.
Open Government Licence v3.0; contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026
8 retained source responses. Retrieval dates and hashes are in the downloadable evidence.
Mapped street-level crime: Portsmouth
Police.uk / Home Office and territorial police forces
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Retained same-authority audited source snapshot; exact ward-code set, geometries and all requested months checked. A --refresh run always downloads revised source data.
Open Government Licence v3.0
72 retained source responses. Retrieval dates and hashes are in the downloadable evidence.
Mapped street-level crime: Southampton
Police.uk / Home Office and territorial police forces
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Retained same-authority audited source snapshot; exact ward-code set, geometries and all requested months checked. A --refresh run always downloads revised source data.
Open Government Licence v3.0
72 retained source responses. Retrieval dates and hashes are in the downloadable evidence.
Mapped street-level crime: Basingstoke and Deane
Police forces / Home Office data.police.uk
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Approximate street locations assigned to official generalised ward polygons. ASB separate; transport police, unlocated and outside-boundary records excluded. Overlarge API polygons are tiled with unique half-open ownership.
Open Government Licence v3.0
25 retained source responses. Retrieval dates and hashes are in the downloadable evidence.
Mapped street-level crime: East Hampshire
Police forces / Home Office data.police.uk
Open the official source →Method, licence and retrieval record
Approximate street locations assigned to official generalised ward polygons. ASB separate; transport police, unlocated and outside-boundary records excluded. Overlarge API polygons are tiled with unique half-open ownership.
Open Government Licence v3.0
25 retained source responses. Retrieval dates and hashes are in the downloadable evidence.
Mapped street-level crime: Eastleigh
Police forces / Home Office data.police.uk
Open the official source →Method, licence and retrieval record
Approximate street locations assigned to official generalised ward polygons. ASB separate; transport police, unlocated and outside-boundary records excluded. Overlarge API polygons are tiled with unique half-open ownership.
Open Government Licence v3.0
25 retained source responses. Retrieval dates and hashes are in the downloadable evidence.
Mapped street-level crime: Fareham
Police forces / Home Office data.police.uk
Open the official source →Method, licence and retrieval record
Approximate street locations assigned to official generalised ward polygons. ASB separate; transport police, unlocated and outside-boundary records excluded. Overlarge API polygons are tiled with unique half-open ownership.
Open Government Licence v3.0
25 retained source responses. Retrieval dates and hashes are in the downloadable evidence.
Mapped street-level crime: Gosport
Police forces / Home Office data.police.uk
Open the official source →Method, licence and retrieval record
Approximate street locations assigned to official generalised ward polygons. ASB separate; transport police, unlocated and outside-boundary records excluded. Overlarge API polygons are tiled with unique half-open ownership.
Open Government Licence v3.0
25 retained source responses. Retrieval dates and hashes are in the downloadable evidence.
Mapped street-level crime: Hart
Police forces / Home Office data.police.uk
Open the official source →Method, licence and retrieval record
Approximate street locations assigned to official generalised ward polygons. ASB separate; transport police, unlocated and outside-boundary records excluded. Overlarge API polygons are tiled with unique half-open ownership.
Open Government Licence v3.0
25 retained source responses. Retrieval dates and hashes are in the downloadable evidence.
Mapped street-level crime: Havant
Police forces / Home Office data.police.uk
Open the official source →Method, licence and retrieval record
Approximate street locations assigned to official generalised ward polygons. ASB separate; transport police, unlocated and outside-boundary records excluded. Overlarge API polygons are tiled with unique half-open ownership.
Open Government Licence v3.0
25 retained source responses. Retrieval dates and hashes are in the downloadable evidence.
Mapped street-level crime: New Forest
Police forces / Home Office data.police.uk
Open the official source →Method, licence and retrieval record
Approximate street locations assigned to official generalised ward polygons. ASB separate; transport police, unlocated and outside-boundary records excluded. Overlarge API polygons are tiled with unique half-open ownership.
Open Government Licence v3.0
25 retained source responses. Retrieval dates and hashes are in the downloadable evidence.
Mapped street-level crime: Rushmoor
Police forces / Home Office data.police.uk
Open the official source →Method, licence and retrieval record
Approximate street locations assigned to official generalised ward polygons. ASB separate; transport police, unlocated and outside-boundary records excluded. Overlarge API polygons are tiled with unique half-open ownership.
Open Government Licence v3.0
25 retained source responses. Retrieval dates and hashes are in the downloadable evidence.
Mapped street-level crime: Test Valley
Police forces / Home Office data.police.uk
Open the official source →Method, licence and retrieval record
Approximate street locations assigned to official generalised ward polygons. ASB separate; transport police, unlocated and outside-boundary records excluded. Overlarge API polygons are tiled with unique half-open ownership.
Open Government Licence v3.0
25 retained source responses. Retrieval dates and hashes are in the downloadable evidence.
Mapped street-level crime: Winchester
Police forces / Home Office data.police.uk
Open the official source →Method, licence and retrieval record
Approximate street locations assigned to official generalised ward polygons. ASB separate; transport police, unlocated and outside-boundary records excluded. Overlarge API polygons are tiled with unique half-open ownership.
Open Government Licence v3.0
25 retained source responses. Retrieval dates and hashes are in the downloadable evidence.
Hampshire county mapped crime — complete 11-district sum
Police forces / Home Office data.police.uk
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UK Facts calculation: sum the 11 complete, matching district ward extracts for Hampshire County Council area. Excludes Portsmouth and Southampton. No average of ward or district rates; anti-social behaviour and British Transport Police excluded.
Open Government Licence v3.0
265 retained source responses. Retrieval dates and hashes are in the downloadable evidence.
Known publication issues and August 2026 data changelog
Police forces / Home Office data.police.uk
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Checked 2026-10-17. Global no-crime-data notices and missing latest-month crime reports suppress complete-period comparisons. Historical missing-crime notices are tracked chronologically until an explicit later crime refresh covers that month. Unresolved historical notices preserve observed rows but block trend interpretation. Stop-and-search and outcomes notices are not treated as crime omissions. UK Facts separately flags unexplained source discontinuities without asserting their cause.
Open Government Licence v3.0
2 retained source responses. Retrieval dates and hashes are in the downloadable evidence.
UK House Price Index full monthly series — 2026-07
HM Land Registry / Office for National Statistics / Registers of Scotland / Land and Property Services
Open the official source →Method, licence and retrieval record
Published UK House Price Index average price, all property types and all buyers, not seasonally adjusted. Entire series comes from the 2026-07 official full-file release, preserving its historical revisions and exact area codes. It is a mix-adjusted average, not the median price paid.
Open Government Licence v3.0
1 retained source responses. Retrieval dates and hashes are in the downloadable evidence.
Annual mid-year population estimates by local authority
ONS, National Records of Scotland and NISRA via Nomis
Open the official source →Method, licence and retrieval record
All ages, both sexes, usual residents. Source series rebased to the 2021/2022 censuses; latest revisions replace older estimates.
Open Government Licence v3.0
5 retained source responses. Retrieval dates and hashes are in the downloadable evidence.
Additional UK Facts observations
These records are reused from the existing reviewed collection. A blank retrieval date means the retained record has no separate timestamp; it does not mean it was checked today.
Typical weekly pay before tax
ONS, Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, resident analysis (Nomis NM_30_1) · 2025 · retrieved 2026-10-04
Survey-based evidence · Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings
Median gross weekly earnings of full-time resident employees. Not an annual-pay median; no multiplication by 52 is used here. Survey estimates are subject to sampling and nonresponse uncertainty.
Official source →Retained source version
SHA-256: c7e6be5c0d20cf09b9cc0c62c16cffc99f9da74ba53197a850572347f6b415d5
The downloadable evidence identifies the retained source record and its original metadata.
Pupils missing a tenth or more of school
DfE, Pupil absence in schools in England: absence by school location · 2024/25 · retrieved 2026-10-04
Persistent absence means missing 10% or more of possible half-day sessions. School-location basis, enrolment denominator; independent schools and children not on a school roll are outside this collection. Administrative school records, not a survey.
Official source →Retained source version
SHA-256: 217cc4c6879adb1b54b29eed8f781ed02a81ca9a41877458c7abacce832e20ac
The downloadable evidence identifies the retained source record and its original metadata.
Men: life expectancy at birth
ONS life expectancy for local areas of the UK · 2022 to 2024
ONS release of 10 December 2025; observations and source publication date verified against the original workbook on 11 October 2026. Three-year period life expectancy, not an individual prediction.
Official source →Retained source version
SHA-256: 45018727aaea3897296b325cab1e644eccb12ce61403d685f9d53304d312517a
The downloadable evidence identifies the retained source record and its original metadata.
Women: life expectancy at birth
ONS life expectancy for local areas of the UK · 2022 to 2024
ONS release of 10 December 2025; observations and source publication date verified against the original workbook on 11 October 2026. Three-year period life expectancy, not an individual prediction.
Official source →Retained source version
SHA-256: 45018727aaea3897296b325cab1e644eccb12ce61403d685f9d53304d312517a
The downloadable evidence identifies the retained source record and its original metadata.
Working-age people claiming unemployment-related benefits
Nomis (ONS) — live API pull · August 2026
Live-pulled 2026-09-21 directly from the Nomis structured API (not a re-scraped report page).
Official source →Retained source version
SHA-256: 45018727aaea3897296b325cab1e644eccb12ce61403d685f9d53304d312517a
The downloadable evidence identifies the retained source record and its original metadata.
