Public Record

Government data, organised into answers.

Agencies publish millions of records every year. Almost none of it is shaped for the people it describes. Each tool here takes one official dataset and turns it into a question you can actually ask — and get a straight answer to.

Live tools
In progress
How these are built
  1. Official sources, named and linked

    Every figure traces back to a specific government dataset, cited on the page it appears. No estimates, no scraped aggregators, no numbers you can't check.

  2. Compared like for like

    Raw rankings mislead. A corner shop isn't a supermarket and a 4 kW roof isn't a 40 kW barn, so every comparison is normalised for size and locality before it's shown.

  3. Honest about gaps

    Where the data is thin, the tool says so instead of inventing a confident answer. Sample sizes and dates are always on screen.

  4. Free, and no sign-up

    Public records paid for by the public. Nothing here asks for an account.