// 00Data Hub · Council Data Catalogue

COUNCIL DATA

Found · Verified · Structured

Every place local government publishes its data, found, opened and mapped in one catalogue.

Councils, regions and cities publish budgets, contracts, planning decisions, property records and election results, each on its own website, in its own format, language and terms. The Council Data Catalogue is the map to all of it: 12,686 sources in 36 countries, every one opened and checked, every one described in the same 24 fields.

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// 01What It Is

One map of local government data. Built source by source.

The catalogue is a structured inventory of where sub-national government publishes data: which body publishes what, where it lives, how to reach it, how often it changes and on what terms it can be used. It covers single councils, regional governments and the national compilations that report on every council at once. It is the starting point a data team would otherwise spend months assembling, country by country.

12,686Verified sources
36Countries
4,038Jurisdictions
8,819Publishers
18Themes
24Fields per source
// 02The Problem It Solves

Local data is everywhere. Finding it is the expensive part.

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Scattered by design

There is no single index of local government data. It sits on thousands of council websites, regional portals, statistics offices and ministry pages, each organised its own way.

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Different in every country

Tiers, names and responsibilities change at every border. A county in one country is a region in another, and the same budget table is published by the council in one place and by the ministry in the next, in a different language.

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Hard to tell what is usable

A link alone says nothing about format, update cadence or licence. 43% of the sources in the catalogue state no licence at all, and many publish only PDFs or map viewers. You need to know that before you build on them.

// 04

Weeks for every question

"Which councils publish their spending, in what format, how often?" usually means weeks of searching, per country. With the catalogue it is a filter.

// 03Inside Every Entry

24 fields. The same for every source, in every country.

Each source is described the same way whatever its country or language, so you can filter, compare and join across all of them. This is the shape of one entry, with its identifying values withheld.

// EntryValues withheld
Country
Level
Local (L3)
Jurisdiction
Parent
Themes
Finance · Procurement
Name
Publisher
Access
Bulk download · API
Formats
CSV · JSON
Updates
Monthly
Date range
Licence
As stated on the source
Coverage
Single jurisdiction
Link
Verified
Opened twice · OK
// Where

Country, level of government, local tier, the jurisdiction in its own language and in English, its parent body and region.

// What

Name, publisher, a one-line description, the themes it covers, the years it spans, and how many councils a compilation reports on.

// How to get it

The direct link, the access method (bulk download, API, web table, map viewer or PDF), the file formats and the update cadence.

// Whether you can use it

The licence exactly as the publisher states it, or flagged as unstated, plus languages and notes on anything hard to read.

// Proof

The date the link was verified and the result of the check.

// 04Coverage

36 countries, three levels of government, 18 themes.

All 27 EU member states, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein, the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. In every country the catalogue follows local government from the national compilations down to individual councils.

3,020National compilations

Sources that report on every council in a country at once.

2,935Regional governments

States, provinces, regions, counties and combined authorities.

6,731Local councils

Cities, municipalities, districts and boroughs.

Boundaries and geography

3,559

Boundaries, GIS layers, addresses and street networks.

Finance

3,062

Budgets, spending, accounts, audits, debt and grants.

Transport

2,471

Roads, parking, transit schedules and traffic.

Planning

2,343

Planning applications, permits, zoning and building control.

Environment

2,321

Air and water quality, waste, energy and climate.

Governance

2,308

Meetings, minutes, votes, by-laws, registers of interest, salaries and office-holders.

Population

1,432

Census, migration and households.

Public assets

1,318

Land holdings, buildings and facilities.

Safety

1,296

Crime, policing, fire, emergencies and licensing.

Property

1,283

Cadastre, land registers, local property taxes and valuations.

Elections

1,268

Local results, electoral boundaries and turnout.

Local economy

1,205

Business registers, employment and tourism.

Procurement

1,047

Tenders, contracts and payments to suppliers.

Education

1,035

Schools, enrolment and attainment.

Service performance

835

Complaints, information requests and service requests.

Housing

802

Housing stock, social housing, waiting lists and homelessness.

Health and care

713

Public health and social care.

Everything else

568

Sources that fit none of the themes above, each described.

A source can cover several themes, so the theme counts add up to more than 12,686.

// 05How It Was Built

Verified, not scraped.

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Every link opened twice

Each source was opened by the research pass and again by an independent check, between 4 October 2026 and 13 October 2026. Sites that refuse automated visits were opened by hand.

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Nothing guessed

A source that could not be confirmed is held out, not listed. Unknown values are recorded as unknown.

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Restricted sources kept apart

747 further sources need a login, a payment or a request. They are logged in a separate appendix, so the catalogue itself lists only what anyone can open today.

// 04

Machine-readable first

81% of the sources offer a bulk download or an API, and 1,735 are updated daily or in real time. The access method and formats of every source are recorded, so you can go straight to the ones a pipeline can use.

// 06Built For

For teams that need local data, in more than one place.

// 01

Data and AI teams

Point pipelines and research agents at a verified list of where to look, by place and by theme, instead of the open web.

Pipelines · Agents · Retrieval
// 02

Software vendors

See which councils publish what, and in which format, before you build an integration or size a market.

Govtech · Integrations · Market sizing
// 03

Investors and lenders

Find the local finance, planning and property sources behind a municipal, real estate or infrastructure decision.

Municipal · Real estate · Infrastructure
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Consultancies and researchers

Compare places across countries in days, with the same fields for every source and every jurisdiction.

Benchmarking · Policy · Academic
// 05

Procurement intelligence

Know where tenders, contracts and supplier payments are published, council by council, in every country covered.

Tenders · Contracts · Spend
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Public bodies

See how peers publish, compare coverage across countries and find the gaps in your own open data.

Benchmarking · Transparency
// 07Ways to License It

Take all of it, or only the part you need.

Delivered as CSV and JSON, with the same 24 fields in every edition.

// Edition 01

Full catalogue

All 36 countries and all 18 themes, with the restricted-sources appendix and a coverage rating for every theme in every country.

12,686 sources
// Edition 02

Country or theme

The countries or the themes you work in, for example procurement across Europe, or every theme for one country.

Any selection
// Edition 03

Custom research

A country not yet covered, a deeper level such as parishes or communes, or one variable traced across every council.

Scoped to you
// Edition 04

Kept current

Scheduled re-checks of every link, with new sources added and moved or retired ones flagged.

Refresh
Does the catalogue include the datasets themselves?

No. It records where each source is published, what it holds and how to reach it. The sources themselves are public, apart from the restricted ones, which are listed separately.

Which countries and levels does it cover?

All 27 EU member states, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein, the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, from national compilations down to individual councils.

How current is it?

Every link in the current edition was verified between 4 October 2026 and 13 October 2026. Scheduled re-checks are available as part of the Kept current edition.

In what format is it delivered?

CSV and JSON, one row per source, with the same 24 fields in every edition.

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