Regional intelligence platform

Urban Metrics UK

A map-first regional intelligence site for exploring how labour, deprivation, civic pressure, and transport behaviour intersect across the West Midlands.

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Operational status

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Generated data, health endpoint, and source freshness are tracked together.

Initial overlay stack

5 ward layers

Economic, deprivation, civic-pressure, and transport-behaviour signals in one view.

Built for extension

AI-first repo

Docs, adapters, health checks, and release rules are already part of the project shape.

Typed source adapters and generated artifacts rather than brittle raw client fetches.

Public-facing source, freshness, and caveat metadata for every shipped layer.

Operational status endpoint and scheduled monitoring built in from the start.

Map workspace

Compare economic and civic signals without losing the geography

The primary fill layer sets the base story. A second metric can be drawn as centroid bubbles so overlapping hotspots and outliers remain legible.

Tracked layers

Ward-scale compare layers generated for the map workspace.

Healthy upstreams

2 layers are reference-only or need operator attention.

Primary geography

WMCA wards

Public-facing, fast to render, and consistent across the initial compare stack.

Current focus

Universal Credit Claimants In Employment

Median value 30%.

Layer controls

Choose what the map emphasises

Status

Primary fill layer

Secondary compare layer

Primary opacity78%

Show ward boundaries

Source caveat

This v1 uses geometry-rich Birmingham City Observatory datasets to keep the first release robust and cheap. Live TfWM service overlays are planned once credentials and rate-limit handling are in place.

Universal Credit Claimants In Employment

Source refreshed within 60 days.

IMD Employment Score

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Reference dataset; freshness tracked for visibility only.

Households In Fuel Poverty

Source refreshed within 450 days.

Gross Value Added: All Industries

Source refreshed within 450 days.

Travel To Work By Bicycle

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Reference dataset; freshness tracked for visibility only.

Interactive comparison mapBase geometry: WMCA wards

Top areas

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Active layer notes

Waiting for data

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