AustraliaFigures published
2021 Census G02: median rent and household income
Australian Bureau of Statistics
- Data reference period
- 2021 Census, 10 August 2021
- How updates are checked
- Scheduled source checks
- Publication schedule
- Five-year Census; reviewed on release
- We last checked this source on
- 30 Oct 2026
Coverage and limits: Historical 2021 rents, not current asking prices. UCL and SA2 are distinct statistical boundaries, not interchangeable cities or suburbs. Rent-free dwellings excluded; zero rent values withheld for review. Census perturbation affects small areas. No automated inflation adjustment.
Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 Census of Population and Housing. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. Native statistical geographies retained; unresolved zero rents withheld.
AustraliaFigures published
Employee earnings and hours May 2025: detailed occupations
Australian Bureau of Statistics
- Data reference period
- Last pay period ending on or before 16 May 2025
- How updates are checked
- Scheduled source checks
- Publication schedule
- Two-year survey; pinned release reviewed before upgrade
- We last checked this source on
- 30 Oct 2026
Coverage and limits: National three-digit ANZSCO2022 minor occupation groups, not city or seniority estimates. Mean gross total cash pay for full-time non-managerial adult-rate employees. Includes salary sacrifice and overtime, excludes irregular bonuses. Weekly and hourly measures remain distinct.
Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Employee Earnings and Hours, Australia, May 2025, Table 13. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
AustraliaFigures published
Employee earnings August 2025: state occupation groups
Australian Bureau of Statistics
- Data reference period
- August 2025
- How updates are checked
- Scheduled source checks
- Publication schedule
- Annual; pinned release reviewed before upgrade
- We last checked this source on
- 30 Oct 2026
Coverage and limits: Eight broad occupation groups. State or national benchmarks. Median main-job gross earnings include both full-time and part-time employees. Relative standard errors retained. No conversion to a full-time salary. Occupation classification is ANZSCO 2013 version 1.2; this differs from the 2022 classification used in the detailed EEH survey.
Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Employee Earnings, August 2025, Table 6. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
AustraliaFigures published
Household Expenditure Survey state and national detailed spending
Australian Bureau of Statistics
- Data reference period
- July 2015–June 2016
- How updates are checked
- Scheduled source checks
- Publication schedule
- Published edition checked monthly; new editions require review
- We last checked this source on
- 30 Oct 2026
Coverage and limits: Historical 2015–16 spending, not current prices. Eight states/territories plus Australia, private dwellings excluding very remote areas. All-household mean includes non-users. Food includes meals out; transport includes fuel/vehicle purchases. Sampling errors retained. Changes to the legacy .xls require manual review before publication.
Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Household Expenditure Survey state and national detailed spending, July 2015–June 2016. Selected and reformatted by LivingCost. No endorsement is implied.
AustraliaAccess unavailable
ANZSCO occupation data February 2026
Jobs and Skills Australia
- Data reference period
- February 2026
- How updates are checked
- Reviewed source snapshot
- Publication schedule
- Periodic; transition to OSCA
- We last checked this source on
- 30 Oct 2026
Coverage and limits: Official workbook download returned HTTP 503. Replaced in seed by ABS Employee Earnings and Hours May2025 Table13 and ABS Employee Earnings August2025 state major groups. JSA connector not activated.
No observations redistributed from this blocked source.
AustraliaFigures published
NSW government school directory
NSW Department of Education
- Data reference period
- Extract 2026-10-02; checked 2026-10-30.
- How updates are checked
- Scheduled school-directory refreshes
- Publication schedule
- Monthly bounded refresh
- We last checked this source on
- 30 Oct 2026
Coverage and limits: New South Wales government schools only. Excludes independent/Catholic schools, other states and territories, and 22 environmental education centres. Coordinates and school types are supplied by the source; operating status and age ranges are not supplied.
NSW Department of Education, Master dataset. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution. Institutional directory fields selected and normalised; demographic and performance measures omitted.
CanadaFigures published
Vancouver local planning areas
City of Vancouver
- Data reference period
- Boundary data modified 2023-06-24; checked 2026-10-30
- How updates are checked
- Reviewed source snapshot
- Publication schedule
- Manual geography review; publisher states boundaries do not change
- We last checked this source on
- 30 Oct 2026
Coverage and limits: 22 official local planning areas within the City of Vancouver. Coordinates are source-provided area reference points, not homes, walking routes or facility entrances. CMA rent is linked only as a wider-area benchmark. No neighbourhood rent is claimed.
Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Vancouver. Location data selected and reformatted by LivingCost.
CanadaFigures published
Vancouver public library locations
City of Vancouver
- Data reference period
- Directory checked 2026-10-30
- How updates are checked
- Scheduled source checks
- Publication schedule
- Monthly
- We last checked this source on
- 30 Oct 2026
Coverage and limits: 22 library and library-service entries within the City of Vancouver only, linked to their official local planning area and to Vancouver CMA as a partial directory. Not all CMA municipalities, opening hours, accessibility or transit quality. An unlisted facility may still exist.
Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Vancouver. Location data selected and reformatted by LivingCost.
CanadaFigures published
Vancouver parks
City of Vancouver
- Data reference period
- Source last modified 2025-09-22; metadata and full extract checked 30 October 2026.
- How updates are checked
- Scheduled source checks
- Publication schedule
- Monthly bounded check; changed directory content requires review of additions and removals. JSON row and property order alone do not trigger a change.
- We last checked this source on
- 30 Oct 2026
Coverage and limits: City of Vancouver only, not all Vancouver CMA municipalities. Exact source local-area names map to the preserved 22 planning areas. Coordinates are reference points; community-centre locations are approximate. No current opening hours, admission prices, accessibility, closures or route times are inferred. Source dates are retained rather than relabelled as current observations.
Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence - Vancouver. Selected and reformatted by LivingCost.
CanadaFigures published
Vancouver community centres
City of Vancouver
- Data reference period
- Source last modified 2020-11-19; metadata and full extract checked 30 October 2026.
- How updates are checked
- Scheduled source checks
- Publication schedule
- Monthly bounded check; changed directory content requires review of additions and removals. JSON row and property order alone do not trigger a change.
- We last checked this source on
- 30 Oct 2026
Coverage and limits: City of Vancouver only, not all Vancouver CMA municipalities. Exact source local-area names map to the preserved 22 planning areas. Coordinates are reference points; community-centre locations are approximate. No current opening hours, admission prices, accessibility, closures or route times are inferred. Source dates are retained rather than relabelled as current observations.
Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence - Vancouver. Selected and reformatted by LivingCost.
CanadaFigures published
Job Bank occupational wages, 2025 release
Employment and Social Development Canada
- Data reference period
- 2021, 2023–2024 or 2024 by row
- How updates are checked
- Scheduled source checks
- Publication schedule
- annual; corrections as published
- We last checked this source on
- 30 Oct 2026
Coverage and limits: Point-in-time occupational estimates; not a trend series. Reference period and underlying source differ by row. National and province/territory benchmarks are not city wages. Native annual/hourly flag retained; no inferred work-week conversion.
Source: Employment and Social Development Canada, 2025 wage estimates. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada.
CanadaFigures published
Job Bank occupational wages: subprovincial economic regions, 2025 release
Employment and Social Development Canada
- Data reference period
- Native 2021, 2023-2024 or 2024 period by occupation/source row; unavailable periods remain NA
- How updates are checked
- Scheduled source checks
- Publication schedule
- Monthly check of the pinned 2025 release; annual-edition discovery retains review
- We last checked this source on
- 30 Oct 2026
Coverage and limits: Medians for 72 additional subprovincial economic regions. Existing national/province/territory rows stay in their original source. Region benchmarks may be sourced from another area by the publisher when direct evidence is unavailable. Not city wages, salary-growth trends or seniority bands. Native hourly/annual basis, provenance, comments and missing values retained.
Source: Employment and Social Development Canada, 2025 wage estimates. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence - Canada.
CanadaFigures published
Ontario publicly funded school directory
Ontario Ministry of Education
- Data reference period
- Filename September 2026; title August 2026; catalogue notes December 2025. Checked 2026-10-30.
- How updates are checked
- Scheduled school-directory refreshes
- Publication schedule
- Monthly bounded refresh
- We last checked this source on
- 30 Oct 2026
Coverage and limits: Ontario publicly funded schools only, including public and Catholic schools, provincial and hospital schools, summer/night schools and ECPP. Excludes private schools and other Canadian provinces. The source supplies postal localities and languages, but no school coordinates or current operating-status field. Conflicting source date labels are retained.
Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence - Ontario. Institutional fields selected and normalised by LivingCost.
CanadaFigures published
Asking rent and paid rent prices by rental unit type
Statistics Canada
- Data reference period
- 2026 Q2
- How updates are checked
- Scheduled source checks
- Publication schedule
- Quarterly
- We last checked this source on
- 30 Oct 2026
Coverage and limits: Experimental estimates. 42 census metropolitan areas/parts, not municipality rents or whole Canada. Average paid rent uses a moving average of the last three quarters. Asking and paid rents remain separate. E means use with caution.
Adapted from Statistics Canada, Table 46-10-0092-01, 2026 Q2. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.
CanadaFigures published
Household spending, Canada and provinces
Statistics Canada
- Data reference period
- 2019, 2021 and 2023
- How updates are checked
- Scheduled source checks
- Publication schedule
- Published edition checked monthly; new editions require review
- We last checked this source on
- 30 Oct 2026
Coverage and limits: Annual means across all households, not fees for users or city-specific spending. Ten provinces; territorial capitals are in another product and are not represented. Native suppression/caution retained. Overlapping parent/child categories must not be summed.
Adapted from Statistics Canada, Table 11-10-0222-01, 2019, 2021 and 2023. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.
CanadaFigures published
2021 Census Profile: municipal population, household income and tenant shelter costs
Statistics Canada
- Data reference period
- Population and tenant shelter costs 2021; household income 2020; geography 2021
- How updates are checked
- Scheduled source checks
- Publication schedule
- Monthly check for revisions to the pinned 2021 Census; new vintages require reviewed mappings
- We last checked this source on
- 30 Oct 2026
Coverage and limits: 5,161 native census subdivisions, including municipalities and equivalent areas, in all 13 provinces/territories. Historical tenant shelter costs include rent and separately paid utilities/services, and are excluded from automatic personal-budget filling. Income is household total before tax for 2020, not profession pay. Suppression, confidence intervals and data-quality flags retained. Coordinates are GeoSuite representative points. Current municipal boundaries and current market asking rents are not inferred.
Source: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census of Population and GeoSuite 2021. Adapted by LivingCost. This does not constitute endorsement by Statistics Canada.
European UnionFigures published
French local rental observatories: 2025 monthly and per-square-metre rent medians
ANIL and Observatoires locaux des loyers
- Data reference period
- Private rental stock as at 1 January 2025
- How updates are checked
- Scheduled source checks
- Publication schedule
- Annual snapshot; changed bytes or edition require review.
- We last checked this source on
- 31 Oct 2026
Coverage and limits: Five native rental observation areas: Paris intra-muros, Bordeaux, Nantes, Strasbourg and Toulouse. Area references do not assert exact matches to Eurostat greater-city boundaries. Private primary-residence rents exclude charges and cover recent and existing tenancies. Furnishing status is not separately identified in the selected table. Room groups are not bedroom counts. Monthly and per-square-metre medians are independent published statistics, not a derived total. Blank cells remain unavailable. All observations are reference-only and cannot silently fill a household budget.
ANIL and the Observatoires locaux des loyers network. 2025 rent results, source file last updated 28 October 2026; reused under Licence Ouverte 2.0. This reuse is independent and is not endorsed by the publisher.
European UnionFigures published
Household Budget Survey average weekly expenditure
Central Statistics Office Ireland
- Data reference period
- 2022–2023 survey
- How updates are checked
- Scheduled source checks
- Publication schedule
- Published edition checked monthly; new editions require review
- We last checked this source on
- 30 Oct 2026
Coverage and limits: Ireland only. All-area private-household means from 2022–23, including non-spenders; dataset time label2023. Not Dublin-only or EU-wide spending. Childcare/education averages are not fees for an attending child. Transport overlaps motor fuel; broadband bundle is not an address-level plan or availability check.
Source: Central Statistics Office Ireland, Household Budget Survey average weekly expenditure, 2022–2023 survey. Selected and reformatted by LivingCost. No endorsement is implied.
European UnionFigures published
Census 2022 average weekly private rent by administrative county
Central Statistics Office Ireland
- Data reference period
- Census 2022
- How updates are checked
- Reviewed source snapshot
- Publication schedule
- Reviewed snapshot; no fixed automatic schedule
- We last checked this source on
- 1 Nov 2026
Coverage and limits: One publication-rounded Cork City administrative-county reference. Not asking rent, individual rent, a current price, or an automatic budget default. The publisher area label is the native identifier; no numeric CSO code or Urban Audit crosswalk is asserted.
Central Statistics Office Ireland, Census of Population 2022, Profile 2, Table 3.4. Reused under CC BY 4.0.
European UnionFigures published
Population in cities and greater cities
Eurostat
- Data reference period
- 2021–2025
- How updates are checked
- Scheduled source checks
- Publication schedule
- Annual
- We last checked this source on
- 30 Oct 2026
Coverage and limits: Urban Audit city and greater-city boundaries. Latest available observation from 2021–2025; countries publish different years. The seed selects published populations of at least 100,000, capitals, and EARS rent locations. Not a full EU municipal register.
Source: Eurostat, urb_cpop1, accessed 30 October 2026. Selected and reformatted by LivingCost; Eurostat is not responsible for this presentation.
European UnionFigures published
Rent in selected city neighbourhoods
Eurostat
- Data reference period
- 2025
- How updates are checked
- Scheduled source checks
- Publication schedule
- Annual; check monthly
- We last checked this source on
- 30 Oct 2026
Coverage and limits: Estate Agency Rent Survey, selected good-quality dwellings and neighbourhoods used for international-staff comparisons. Arithmetic mean of agent observations. Not a citywide median, budget-home price or live listing; dwelling surfaces differ between cities. Figures in source-published EUR.
Source: Eurostat, prc_colc_rents, accessed 30 October 2026. Selected and reformatted by LivingCost; Eurostat is not responsible for this presentation.
European UnionFigures published
Gross monthly earnings by occupation group
Eurostat
- Data reference period
- 2022
- How updates are checked
- Scheduled source checks
- Publication schedule
- Four-yearly; check quarterly
- We last checked this source on
- 30 Oct 2026
Coverage and limits: 2022 Structure of Earnings Survey. National ISCO-08 broad occupation groups, enterprises with 10+ employees, NACE B–S excluding O. Full-time-equivalent adjustments apply. Not city salaries, current job offers, seniority bands or take-home pay.
Source: Eurostat, earn_ses22_21, accessed 30 October 2026. Selected and reformatted by LivingCost; Eurostat is not responsible for this presentation.
European UnionFigures published
Household electricity prices, band DC, taxes included
Eurostat
- Data reference period
- 2024-S1–2026-S1
- How updates are checked
- Scheduled source checks
- Publication schedule
- Published edition checked monthly; new editions require review
- We last checked this source on
- 30 Oct 2026
Coverage and limits: National electricity unit-price benchmarks for household consumption 2500–4999 kWh/year, including taxes. No local supplier quote, heating estimate, household consumption assumption, or retail bill. EU27 only; other source countries excluded from this product.
Source: Eurostat, nrg_pc_204, accessed 30 October 2026. EU27 data selected and reformatted by LivingCost. Eurostat is not responsible for this presentation.
European UnionFigures published
France school directory: ten departments
French Ministry of Education
- Data reference period
- Directory snapshot 2026-10-30; row update dates retained.
- How updates are checked
- Scheduled school-directory refreshes
- Publication schedule
- Monthly bounded refresh
- We last checked this source on
- 30 Oct 2026
Coverage and limits: France: Bouches-du-Rhône (013), Haute-Garonne (031), Gironde (033), Hérault (034), Ille-et-Vilaine (035), Loire-Atlantique (044), Nord (059), Bas-Rhin (067), Rhône (069) and Paris (075). Public and private schools, collèges, lycées and EREA. Other institutions excluded. 13,086 source entries represent 13,059 unique UAI identifiers. This does not cover all France or the EU.
Ministère de l’Éducation nationale, Annuaire de l’éducation, Licence Ouverte v2.0. Downloaded 2026-10-30. School fields selected and translated; duplicate UAI entries consolidated and ambiguous campus coordinates withheld.
Multiple regionsFigures published
Euro foreign exchange reference rates
European Central Bank
- Data reference period
- 2026-10-29
- How updates are checked
- Scheduled source checks
- Publication schedule
- Business daily; check daily
- We last checked this source on
- 13 Nov 2026
Coverage and limits: Informational reference rates. Not a guaranteed transaction rate; excludes retail fees. Holidays and weekends have no new release.
Source: European Central Bank. Reference data is available free from the ECB. Conversions calculated by LivingCost from published rates.
Multiple regionsFigures published
Populated-place reference points
GeoNames
- Data reference period
- Download 2026-10-30; feature modification dates differ
- How updates are checked
- Reviewed source snapshot
- Publication schedule
- Manual crosswalk review with new geography versions
- We last checked this source on
- 30 Oct 2026
Coverage and limits: Coordinates represent named-place reference points, not official city or metropolitan boundaries. Gazetteer populations are not displayed because observation years differ.
Geographical reference points and alternate names: GeoNames, CC BY 4.0. Selected and matched to official city identities by LivingCost.
United KingdomFigures published
England state-funded schools (GIAS)
Department for Education
- Data reference period
- Open state-funded school extract 2026-10-30.
- How updates are checked
- Scheduled school-directory refreshes
- Publication schedule
- Monthly bounded refresh
- We last checked this source on
- 30 Oct 2026
Coverage and limits: England only, open state-funded schools and schools proposed to close in the selected official bulk extract. Excludes independent schools, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Age ranges, phase and operating status are supplied. Postal towns are not catchments; this selected file has no coordinates.
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Department for Education, Get Information about Schools. Institutional fields selected; Windows-1252 text converted to UTF-8.
United KingdomFigures published
UK employee Income Tax and National Insurance 2026/27
HM Revenue & Customs
- Data reference period
- Tax year 2026/27, 6 April 2026 to 5 April 2027
- How updates are checked
- Tax-source monitoring; rules are reviewed before publication
- Publication schedule
- Monthly source-change check; manual rule review
- We last checked this source on
- 30 Oct 2026
Coverage and limits: Four separate supported residence/work jurisdictions: England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland. Full-year resident standard employee, 12 equal monthly payments, NI category A, full standard allowance, no other income, pensions, salary sacrifice, taxable benefits, student loans, child benefit charge, directorship or special relief. Annual liability estimate, not PAYE withholding. Rules expire and changed source pages require review.
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. HMRC rules transcribed and tested by LivingCost; no government endorsement.
United KingdomFigures published
ASHE 2026 four-digit SOC occupation earnings, Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency
- Data reference period
- Tax year ending 5 April 2026, provisional
- How updates are checked
- Scheduled source checks
- Publication schedule
- Annual; pinned release reviewed before upgrade
- We last checked this source on
- 30 Oct 2026
Coverage and limits: Northern Ireland workplace benchmark, not Belfast-specific. Full-time adult-rate jobs held for more than a year; self-employed excluded. Small samples cause suppression and unreliable values. Native suppression codes and coefficients of variation retained.
Source: NISRA. Website: www.nisra.gov.uk. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
United KingdomFigures published
Price Index of Private Rents: reviewed official local housing pages
Office for National Statistics
- Data reference period
- September 2026; Northern Ireland July 2026
- How updates are checked
- Reviewed source snapshot
- Publication schedule
- Manual official-page review
- We last checked this source on
- 30 Oct 2026
Coverage and limits: Manual reviewed snapshot, not an automated feed. Direct ONS downloads returned HTTP 403 in this runtime. England/Wales include new and existing tenancies; Scottish rents mainly advertised new lets, Northern Ireland advertised new lets. London is the region. Scottish and Northern Irish rents are BRMA benchmarks. Four-bedroom figures mean four or more bedrooms.
Source: Office for National Statistics, Price Index of Private Rents. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Figures transcribed from the linked official pages, reviewed 30 October 2026.
United KingdomAccess unavailable
Price Index of Private Rents monthly workbook
Office for National Statistics
- Data reference period
- September 2026; Northern Ireland July 2026
- How updates are checked
- Reviewed source snapshot
- Publication schedule
- Monthly
- We last checked this source on
- 30 Oct 2026
Coverage and limits: Direct runtime requests returned HTTP 403. No missing credential requirement inferred. Reviewed official pages and Scottish open CSV are separate available alternatives. Bulk connector has not been activated.
No observations redistributed from this blocked source.
United KingdomFigures published
ASHE 2026 detailed four-digit occupation earnings
Office for National Statistics
- Data reference period
- Pay period including 22 April 2026; annual pay in tax year ending 5 April 2026
- How updates are checked
- Scheduled source checks
- Publication schedule
- Annual
- We last checked this source on
- 30 Oct 2026
Coverage and limits: National UK SOC2020 occupation benchmarks only, not city or regional pay. Full-time adult-rate jobs, provisional 2026. Weekly/hourly pay excludes jobs affected by absence; annual pay requires more than a year in the same job. All suppressed values remain unavailable. Direct official download succeeded in Stage 2; earlier Stage 1 HTTP 403 is retained in its original audit.
Source: Office for National Statistics, Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, 2026 provisional, Table 14. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
United KingdomFigures published
Family spending detailed weekly household expenditure
Office for National Statistics
- Data reference period
- April 2024–March 2025
- How updates are checked
- Scheduled source checks
- Publication schedule
- Published edition checked monthly; new editions require review
- We last checked this source on
- 30 Oct 2026
Coverage and limits: UK-wide average across all households including zero spend, not a local tariff. Childcare payments is a narrow category; nursery/primary fees are separately withheld and must not be inferred. Communication contains equipment and bundles; transport includes vehicle purchase and fuel. Sample errors retained.
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: ONS Family spending workbook 1, FYE 2025, released 11 June 2026. Selected and reformatted by LivingCost.
United KingdomFigures published
Price Index of Private Rents: local-area monthly price series
Office for National Statistics
- Data reference period
- October 2024 to September 2026; Northern Ireland latest July 2026
- How updates are checked
- Scheduled source checks
- Publication schedule
- Monthly source/edition check; a different published edition is held for review
- We last checked this source on
- 30 Oct 2026
Coverage and limits: 316 English/Welsh local authorities, 18 Scottish and eight Northern Irish broad rental market areas, plus one UK reference series in the selected CSV. These are administrative/market areas, not every UK town. All-bedroom modelled rent levels; England/Wales include new and existing tenancies. Scottish collection historically favoured advertised new lets; Northern Ireland uses advertised new lets. Two unavailable NI months and all other missing cells retained. New editions need a reviewed public CSV URL and geography check.
Source: Office for National Statistics, Price Index of Private Rents, 21 October 2026. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
United KingdomFigures published
Great Britain regional energy price cap, October to December 2026
Office of Gas and Electricity Markets
- Data reference period
- 1 October to 31 December 2026; Annex 9 v1.11 published August 2026, checked 30 October 2026.
- How updates are checked
- Scheduled source checks
- Publication schedule
- Quarterly rates; monthly bounded source check. New period or changed bytes held for review; calculator refuses dates outside the reviewed period.
- We last checked this source on
- 30 Oct 2026
Coverage and limits: Fourteen Great Britain energy regions, three payment methods, single-rate electricity and gas only. Northern Ireland, fixed and multi-rate tariffs excluded. Source annualised cap charges are published excluding VAT at zero use and 2,500 kWh electricity or 9,500 kWh gas reference use. The separate scenario derives unit/standing references from those inputs and applies the source-period VAT of 0% electricity and 5% gas. No city-to-energy-region inference, actual supplier bill, future-year forecast, complete utility basket or automatic household-budget fill. Source outputs are not used as financial-instrument or investment-fund benchmarks.
Contains public sector information from Ofgem licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Selected and reformatted by LivingCost.
United KingdomFigures published
Private sector rent statistics Scotland 2010 to 2025
Scottish Government
- Data reference period
- 1 October 2024 to 30 September 2025
- How updates are checked
- Scheduled source checks
- Publication schedule
- Annual; pinned release reviewed before upgrade
- We last checked this source on
- 30 Oct 2026
Coverage and limits: Broad rental market areas. Predominantly advertised rents with a minority of agreed lets; not a measure of changes for sitting tenants. Shared rooms are separately identified.
Source: Scottish Government, Private Sector Rent Statistics 2010 to 2025. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
United KingdomFigures published
ASHE 2025 occupation earnings: UK and Scotland
Scottish Parliament Information Centre; ONS ASHE
- Data reference period
- April 2025 provisional
- How updates are checked
- Scheduled source checks
- Publication schedule
- Annual; pinned release reviewed before upgrade
- We last checked this source on
- 30 Oct 2026
Coverage and limits: Nine broad SOC2020 major occupation groups only. UK and Scotland benchmarks, not local salaries. Gross hourly medians exclude overtime. Published uncertainty values retained. Detailed UK-wide pay is available separately from ONS ASHE Table 14 for 2026; it does not change this source’s 2025 major-group coverage.
Contains information licensed under the Scottish Parliament Copyright Licence. Source: Scottish Parliament Information Centre, based on ONS Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings 2025 (Open Government Licence v3.0).
United StatesFigures published
US public library outlets, FY2024
Institute of Museum and Library Services
- Data reference period
- FY2024; library-system start and end dates retained. Released June 2026; checked 30 October 2026.
- How updates are checked
- Scheduled source checks
- Publication schedule
- Annual source release; monthly bounded check. Changed bytes or a new vintage require review.
- We last checked this source on
- 30 Oct 2026
Coverage and limits: Fifty states and District of Columbia only. Central and branch libraries meeting the federal public-library definition; bookmobiles, mail-only outlets, future/temporarily closed outlets and survey nonrespondents excluded. Historical survey, not current opening status, Wi-Fi, coworking, accessible entrance or opening-hours evidence. Precise coordinates require a unique source geocode match, score at least 90 and address-level precision. Place association uses exact postal city/state plus at most 20 km from the place reference point, not a municipal boundary claim. No inferred links or service quality.
Source: Institute of Museum and Library Services, Public Libraries Survey FY2024 public-use files. Selected and reformatted by LivingCost.
United StatesFigures published
U.S. monthly station climate normals 1991–2020
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
- Data reference period
- 1991–2020
- How updates are checked
- Scheduled source checks
- Publication schedule
- Decadal normals; pinned release checked monthly
- We last checked this source on
- 30 Oct 2026
Coverage and limits: Ten reference stations linked to ten US places. Airport/park station measurements are not citywide averages or neighbourhood forecasts. Precipitation includes melted frozen precipitation; snowfall is separately reported. Units retained as Fahrenheit and inches. These figures do not predict a household energy bill.
Source: NOAA NCEI U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020. Ten station series selected and reformatted by LivingCost. Not a forecast or NOAA endorsement.
United StatesFigures published
Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
- Data reference period
- May 2025
- How updates are checked
- Scheduled source checks
- Publication schedule
- Annual
- We last checked this source on
- 30 Oct 2026
Coverage and limits: National benchmarks plus ten pilot metropolitan areas. Workplace employee wages, not city-only resident pay. OEWS annual estimates are native published values, not an assumed work week. Symbols are preserved as missing/suppressed.
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025.
United StatesFigures published
Consumer Expenditure Survey detailed annual spending
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
- Data reference period
- 2025
- How updates are checked
- Scheduled source checks
- Publication schedule
- Published edition checked monthly; new editions require review
- We last checked this source on
- 30 Oct 2026
Coverage and limits: National consumer-unit means, not city prices or a household-specific shopping basket. Includes non-spenders. Broad transport includes fuel and vehicle purchases; broad utilities includes telephone services. Childcare includes preschool. Sampling uncertainty is retained.
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Consumer Expenditure Survey detailed annual spending, 2025. Selected and reformatted by LivingCost. No endorsement is implied.
United StatesFigures published
Consumer Expenditure Survey annual spending history
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
- Data reference period
- 2021–2025
- How updates are checked
- Scheduled source checks
- Publication schedule
- Published edition checked monthly; new editions require review
- We last checked this source on
- 30 Oct 2026
Coverage and limits: National means, published rounded dollars. Nominal amounts, not inflation adjusted. Table footnote excludes pre-2023 gasoline-and-other-fuels from the comparable series. No claim of local spending growth.
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Consumer Expenditure Survey annual spending history, 2021–2025. Selected and reformatted by LivingCost. No endorsement is implied.
United StatesFigures published
ACS 2020–2024 housing, income and population
U.S. Census Bureau
- Data reference period
- 2020–2024
- How updates are checked
- Scheduled source checks
- Publication schedule
- Annual
- We last checked this source on
- 30 Oct 2026
Coverage and limits: Five-year estimates for Census places. Contract rent excludes separately paid utilities; gross rent includes them. Existing renter households, not advertised offers. MOEs retained. No per-bedroom estimates.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2020–2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates.
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NCES public schools: Colorado, Maine, Vermont and Wisconsin
U.S. Department of Education, NCES
- Data reference period
- Academic year 2024-2025; retrieved 2026-10-30.
- How updates are checked
- Scheduled school-directory refreshes
- Publication schedule
- Monthly bounded refresh
- We last checked this source on
- 30 Oct 2026
Coverage and limits: Public schools in four whole states: Colorado, Maine, Vermont and Wisconsin. Excludes private schools and all other states/territories. Native grade spans and operating status retained; no age, language, admissions or ratings inferred.
Source: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, EDGE Public School Locations, 2024-25. Public-domain institutional fields selected and normalised.