A to Z Index for the Statistical Digest of Rural England
Updated 11 December 2025
Applies to England
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A-Z index of topics
Topics/indicators are listed alphabetically, alongside links to the bulletin publication it sits within as well as a download link to the supplementary data tables (where available).
A
Accessibility: Access to key services
Bulletin: Connectivity and Accessibility (Section E)
Accessibility: Average minimum travel times
Bulletin: Connectivity and Accessibility (Section E)
Accessibility: Average number of key services
Bulletin: Connectivity and Accessibility (Section E)
Accessibility: Barriers to Housing and Services (Deprivation)
Bulletin: Communities and Households (Section B)
Accessibility: Overall measure of accessibility to services
Bulletin: Connectivity and Accessibility (Section E)
Affordability, House: Lower quartile
Bulletin: Housing (Section C)
Affordability, House: Median
Bulletin: Housing (Section C)
Affordability, Rent
Bulletin: Housing (Section C)
Affordable housing additions
Bulletin: Housing (Section B)
Appointments, NHS General Practice
Bulletin: Health and Wellbeing (Section D)
Apprenticeships
Bulletin: Education, Qualifications and Training (Section H)
B
Baccalaureate, English
Bulletin: Education, Qualifications and Training (Section C)
Benefit claimants: Jobseeker’s allowance and Universal Credit
Bulletin: Rural Economic Bulletin (Section D)
Broadband coverage
Bulletin: Connectivity and Accessibility (Section A)
Business demographics
Bulletin: Rural Economic Bulletin (Section F)
Business count
Bulletin: Rural Economic Bulletin (Section F)
Business start-ups
Bulletin: Rural Economic Bulletin (Section H)
Business crime: Commercial Victimisation Survey
Bulletin: Communities and Households (Section F)
Businesses by industry type
Bulletin: Rural Economic Bulletin (Section G)
Businesses by size band
Bulletin: Rural Economic Bulletin (Section F)
Businesses (capital investment)
Bulletin: Rural Economic Bulletin (Section I)
Businesses: Analysis of registered SMEs from the IDBR
Bulletin: Rural Economic Bulletin (Section F)
Businesses: Analysis of SMEs from the LSBS
Bulletin: Rural Economic Bulletin (Section F)
C
Capital investment per employee
Bulletin: Rural Economic Bulletin (Section I)
Car availability
Bulletin: Connectivity and Accessibility (Section D)
Census 2021: Ethnic group
Bulletin: Population (Section E)
Census 2021: Household composition
Bulletin: Population (Section E)
Census 2021: Housing stock by age and type
Bulletin: Housing (Section A)
Census 2021: Population (LA-based)
Bulletin: Population (Section E)
Census 2021: Population (LSOA-based)
Bulletin: Population (Section E)
Census 2021: Population (OA-based)
Bulletin: Population (Section E)
Central heating
Bulletin: Energy (Section D)
Charity, Donating to
Bulletin: Health and Wellbeing (Section G)
Childcare provider types
Bulletin: Health and Wellbeing (Section E)
Childcare: Number of childcare providers
Bulletin: Health and Wellbeing (Section E)
Childcare: Quality of childcare providers
Bulletin: Health and Wellbeing (Section E)
Claimant count: Jobseeker’s allowance and Universal Credit
Bulletin: Rural Economic Bulletin (Section D)
Carbon Dioxide emissions
Bulletin: Energy (Section F)
Class sizes
Bulletin: Education, Qualifications and Training (Section B)
Community: Civic engagement
Bulletin: Communities and Households (Section G)
Community: Decision making
Bulletin: Communities and Households (Section G)
Community: Feelings about neighbours
Bulletin: Communities and Households (Section G)
Community: Feelings about the neighbourhood
Bulletin: Communities and Households (Section G)
Costs, Housing
Bulletin: Housing (Section C)
Council housing
Bulletin: Housing (Section B)
Coverage, Mobile phone
Bulletin: Connectivity and Accessibility (Section B)
Crime
Bulletin: Communities and Households (Section E)
Crime Deprivation
Bulletin: Communities and Households (Section B)
Crime Survey for England and Wales
Bulletin: Communities and Households (Section F)
Crime: Commercial Victimisation Survey
Bulletin: Communities and Households (Section F)
D
Damp homes
Bulletin: Housing (Section G)
Death by suicide: Rate of registered deaths
Bulletin: Health and Wellbeing (Section A)
Deaths, Preventable
Bulletin: Health and Wellbeing (Section A)
Decent Homes Standard
Bulletin: Housing (Section G)
Dentistry provision (NHS)
Bulletin: Health and Wellbeing (Section C)
Deprivation: Barriers to Housing and Services
Bulletin: Communities and Households (Section B)
Deprivation: Comparing between Rural and Urban areas
Bulletin: Communities and Households (Sections A and B)
Deprivation in terms of Crime
Bulletin: Communities and Households (Section B)
Deprivation, Employment
Bulletin: Communities and Households (Section B)
Deprivation, Education, Skills and Training
Bulletin: Communities and Households (Section B)
Deprivation, Health
Bulletin: Communities and Households (Section B)
Deprivation, Income
Bulletin: Communities and Households (Section B)
Deprivation, Living Environment
Bulletin: Communities and Households (Section B)
Deprivation: Rescaling the IMD for Rural areas only
Bulletin: Communities and Households (Section A)
Deprivation: Rescaling each IoD for Rural areas only
Bulletin: Communities and Households (Section B)
Deprivation: GCSEs based on deprivation
Bulletin: Education, Qualifications and Training (Section C)
Detached property purchase prices
Bulletin: Housing (Section C)
Digital connectivity: Broadband coverage
Bulletin: Connectivity and Accessibility (Section A)
Disposable income and nominal expenditure
Bulletin: Communities and Households (Section D)
Donating to charity
Bulletin: Health and Wellbeing (Section G)
Drug seizures
Bulletin: Communities and Households (Section E)
Dwelling stock
Bulletin: Housing (Section B)
E
Earnings: Residence-based earnings
Bulletin: Rural Economic Bulletin (Section B)
Earnings: Workplace-based earnings
Bulletin: Rural Economic Bulletin (Section B)
Economic inactivity
Bulletin: Rural Economic Bulletin (Section A)
Education level (of workforce) by residence
Bulletin: Education, Qualifications and Training (Section I)
Education level (of workforce) by work location
Bulletin: Education, Qualifications and Training (Section I)
Education, Skills and Training Deprivation
Bulletin: Communities and Households (Section B)
Education: Apprenticeships
Bulletin: Education, Qualifications and Training (Section H)
Education: Attainment 8 and Progress 8 scores
Bulletin: Education, Qualifications and Training (Section C)
Education: English Baccalaureate
Bulletin: Education, Qualifications and Training (Section C)
Education: GCSEs based on deprivation
Bulletin: Education, Qualifications and Training (Section C)
Education: GCSEs based on pupils’ residence
Bulletin: Education, Qualifications and Training (Section C)
Education: GCSEs based on pupils’ residence (LA)
Bulletin: Education, Qualifications and Training (Section C)
Education: GCSEs based on school location
Bulletin: Education, Qualifications and Training (Section C)
Education: Home schooling
Bulletin: Education, Qualifications and Training (Section F)
Education: Special needs (SEN)
Bulletin: Education, Qualifications and Training (Section F)
Electric vehicle infrastructure
Bulletin: Connectivity and Accessibility (Section D)
Electric vehicles
Bulletin: Connectivity and Accessibility (Section D)
Electricity consumption
Bulletin: Energy (Section E)
Emissions, Carbon Dioxide
Bulletin: Energy (Section F)
Employees: Capital investment per employee
Bulletin: Rural Economic Bulletin (Section I)
Employment by industry type
Bulletin: Rural Economic Bulletin (Section G)
Employment Deprivation
Bulletin: Communities and Households (Section B)
Employment rate
Bulletin: Rural Economic Bulletin (Section A)
Employment: Unemployment rate
Bulletin: Rural Economic Bulletin (Section A)
Empty homes
Bulletin: Housing (Section D)
Energy consumption
Bulletin: Energy (Section E)
Energy Performance Certificates (EPC): Achieving energy efficiency category C
Bulletin: Energy (Section C)
Energy Performance Certificates (EPC): Average energy efficiency score
Bulletin: Energy (Section B)
English Baccalaureate
Bulletin: Education, Qualifications and Training (Section C)
English Housing Survey (EHS)
Bulletin: Housing (Section A)
Environment Deprivation
Bulletin: Communities and Households (Section B)
Ethnicity
Bulletin: Population (Section E)
EV charging
Bulletin: Connectivity and Accessibility (Section D)
Expenditure (nominal) and disposable income
Bulletin: Communities and Households (Section D)
Expenditure on commodity or service groups
Bulletin: Communities and Households (Section D)
F
Firearm crime
Bulletin: Communities and Households (Section E)
Flat/maisonette purchase prices
Bulletin: Housing (Section C)
Fly-tipping
Bulletin: Communities and Households (Section E)
Free school meals
Bulletin: Education, Qualifications and Training (Section E)
Fuel poor households
Bulletin: Energy (Section A)
Fuel poverty gap
Bulletin: Energy (Section A)
Fuel: Off the gas grid properties
Bulletin: Energy (Section A)
G
Gas consumption
Bulletin: Energy (Section E)
Gas grid: Off-the-grid properties
Bulletin: Energy (Section A)
GCSEs: Attainment 8 and Progress 8 scores
Bulletin: Education, Qualifications and Training (Section C)
GCSEs: English Baccalaureate
Bulletin: Education, Qualifications and Training (Section C)
GCSEs based on deprivation
Bulletin: Education, Qualifications and Training (Section C)
GCSEs based on pupils’ residence
Bulletin: Education, Qualifications and Training (Section C)
GCSEs based on pupils’ residence (LA)
Bulletin: Education, Qualifications and Training (Section C)
GCSEs based on school location
Bulletin: Education, Qualifications and Training (Section C)
General Practices (GPs)
Bulletin: Health and Wellbeing (Section D)
Gigabit Broadband
Bulletin: Connectivity and Accessibility (Section A)
Gun crime
Bulletin: Communities and Households (Section E)
GVA per Workforce Job (Productivity)
Bulletin: Rural Economic Bulletin (Section E)
GVA: Contribution to England’s GVA by industry
Bulletin: Rural Economic Bulletin (Section E)
GVA: Contribution to England’s GVA
Bulletin: Rural Economic Bulletin (Section E)
H
Hate crime
Bulletin: Communities and Households (Section E)
Health Deprivation and Disability
Bulletin: Communities and Households (Section B)
Health: Infant mortality rate (IMR)
Bulletin: Health and Wellbeing (Section A)
Health: Male and female life expectancy
Bulletin: Health and Wellbeing (Section A)
Heating, Central
Bulletin: Energy (Section D)
Heating: Off the gas grid properties
Bulletin: Energy (Section A)
Higher education: Full-time entrants to higher education
Bulletin: Education, Qualifications and Training (Section G)
Higher education: Part-time entrants to higher education
Bulletin: Education, Qualifications and Training (Section G)
Home schooling
Bulletin: Education, Qualifications and Training (Section F)
Home working
Bulletin: Connectivity and Accessibility (Section F)
Homelessness
Bulletin: Housing (Section E)
Homes England: housing additions
Bulletin: Housing (Section B)
Homes, Decent
Bulletin: Housing (Section G)
House prices
Bulletin: Housing (Section C)
House purchase affordability
Bulletin: Housing (Section C)
Household composition, Census 2021
Bulletin: Population (Section E)
Housing and Services, Barriers to
Bulletin: Communities and Households (Section B)
Housing completions
Bulletin: Housing (Section B)
Housing starts
Bulletin: Housing (Section B)
Housing quality: Damp homes
Bulletin: Housing (Section G)
Housing: Additions to affordable housing
Bulletin: Housing (Section B)
Housing: Age and type
Bulletin: Housing (Section A)
Housing: Empty homes
Bulletin: Housing (Section D)
Housing: Land use change
Bulletin: Housing (Section F)
Housing: Rent prices
Bulletin: Housing (Section C)
Housing: Residential property sales
Bulletin: Housing (Section C)
Housing: Second homes
Bulletin: Housing (Section D)
Housing: Section 106 agreements
Bulletin: Housing (Section B)
Housing: total dwelling stock
Bulletin: Housing (Section B)
I
IDBR: Analysis of registered SMEs from the IDBR
Bulletin: Rural Economic Bulletin (Section F)
IMD: Comparing between Rural and Urban areas
Bulletin: Communities and Households (Section A)
IMD: Rescaling the IMD for Rural areas only
Bulletin: Communities and Households (Section A)
IoD: Comparing between Rural and Urban areas
Bulletin: Communities and Households (Section B)
**IoD: Rescaling each IoD for Rural areas only **
Bulletin: Communities and Households (Section B)
Income Deprivation
Bulletin: Communities and Households (Section B)
Income: Absolute low income
Bulletin: Communities and Households (Section C)
Income: Relative low income
Bulletin: Communities and Households (Section C)
Industry: Businesses by industry type
Bulletin: Rural Economic Bulletin (Section G)
Infant mortality rate (IMR)
Bulletin: Health and Wellbeing (Section A)
Internal migration – long-term trends
Bulletin: Population (Section C)
Internal migration – short-term trends
Bulletin: Population (Section C)
Internal migration by age
Bulletin: Population (Section C)
Investment: Capital investment per employee
Bulletin: Rural Economic Bulletin (Section I)
J
Jobseeker’s allowance and Universal Credit
Bulletin: Rural Economic Bulletin (Section D)
Jobseeking: Unemployment rate
Bulletin: Rural Economic Bulletin (Section A)
Journey to school
Bulletin: Connectivity and Accessibility (Section C)
K
Knife crime
Bulletin: Communities and Households (Section E)
L
Land use change
Bulletin: Housing (Section F)
Life expectancy: Male and Female
Bulletin: Health and Wellbeing (Section A)
Local Authority (council) housing
Bulletin: Housing (Section B)
Loneliness: frequency
Bulletin: Health and Wellbeing (Section F)
Loneliness: indirect estimates
Bulletin: Health and Wellbeing (Section F)
LSBS: Analysis of SMEs from the LSBS
Bulletin: Rural Economic Bulletin (Section F)
M
Migration (internal) – long-term trends
Bulletin: Population (Section C)
Migration (internal) – short-term trends
Bulletin: Population (Section C)
Migration (internal) by age
Bulletin: Population (Section C)
Mobile phone coverage
Bulletin: Connectivity and Accessibility (Section B)
Mortality: Infant mortality rate (IMR)
Bulletin: Health and Wellbeing (Section A)
Mortality: Suicide rate
Bulletin: Health and Wellbeing (Section A)
Mortality from causes considered preventable
Bulletin: Health and Wellbeing (Section A)
N
Neighbourhoods: Civic engagement
Bulletin: Communities and Households (Section G)
Neighbourhoods: Decision-making
Bulletin: Communities and Households (Section G)
Neighbourhoods: Feelings about neighbours
Bulletin: Communities and Households (Section G)
Neighbourhoods: Feelings about the neighbourhood
Bulletin: Communities and Households (Section G)
NHS: Dentistry provision
Bulletin: Health and Wellbeing (Section C)
NHS: General Practices (GPs)
Bulletin: Health and Wellbeing (Section D)
O
Off-the-grid properties
Bulletin: Energy (Section A)
Ofsted school inspections: Impact of deprivation
Bulletin: Education, Qualifications and Training (Section D)
Ofsted school inspections: Primary and Secondary schools
Bulletin: Education, Qualifications and Training (Section D)
On the job training
Bulletin: Education, Qualifications and Training (Section H)
Outcomes, Crime
Bulletin: Communities and Households (Section E)
P
Phone coverage
Bulletin: Connectivity and Accessibility (Section B)
Police recorded crime
Bulletin: Communities and Households (Section E)
Police, Perceptions of
Bulletin: Communities and Households (Section F)
Pollution: Carbon Dioxide emissions
Bulletin: Energy (Section F)
Population (mid-2022, LSOA-based)
Bulletin: Population (Section A)
Population (mid-2023, LA-based)
Bulletin: Population (Section D)
Population by age
Bulletin: Population (Section B)
Population changes (LA-based)
Bulletin: Population (Section D)
Population changes (LSOA-based)
Bulletin: Population (Section A)
Population: Ageing population
Bulletin: Population (Section B)
Population: Average age of the population
Bulletin: Population (Section B)
Poverty, Fuel
Bulletin: Energy (Section A)
Poverty: Absolute low income
Bulletin: Communities and Households (Section C)
Poverty: Relative low income
Bulletin: Communities and Households (Section C)
Private rent affordability
Bulletin: Housing (Section C)
Properties by age and type
Bulletin: Housing (Section A)
Properties, Empty
Bulletin: Housing (Section D)
Property additions (affordable housing)
Bulletin: Housing (Section B)
Property completions
Bulletin: Housing (Section B)
Property starts
Bulletin: Housing (Section B)
Pupil numbers
Bulletin: Education, Qualifications and Training (Section B)
Q
Qualifications of workforce, by residence
Bulletin: Education, Qualifications and Training (Section I)
Qualifications of workforce, by work location
Bulletin: Education, Qualifications and Training (Section I)
Qualifications: Apprenticeships
Bulletin: Education, Qualifications and Training (Section H)
Quality, Housing
Bulletin: Housing (Section G)
R
Redundancies
Bulletin: Rural Economic Bulletin (Section C)
Rent affordability
Bulletin: Housing (Section C)
Rent prices
Bulletin: Housing (Section C)
Residential addresses (new): Land use change
Bulletin: Housing (Section F)
Residential property purchase prices
Bulletin: Housing (Section C)
Retirement rate
Bulletin: Rural Economic Bulletin (Section A)
Rough sleepers
Bulletin: Housing (Section E)
Rural exception sites
Bulletin: Housing (Section B)
S
Sales: Residential properties
Bulletin: Housing (Section C)
School, Journey to
Bulletin: Connectivity and Accessibility (Section C)
School: Attainment 8 and Progress 8 scores
Bulletin: Education, Qualifications and Training (Section C)
School: English Baccalaureate
Bulletin: Education, Qualifications and Training (Section C)
School: Free school meals
Bulletin: Education, Qualifications and Training (Section E)
Schooling, Home
Bulletin: Education, Qualifications and Training (Section F)
School inspections: Impact of deprivation
Bulletin: Education, Qualifications and Training (Section D)
School inspections: Primary and Secondary schools
Bulletin: Education, Qualifications and Training (Section D)
Schools, Number of
Bulletin: Education, Qualifications and Training (Section A)
Schools: Class sizes
Bulletin: Education, Qualifications and Training (Section B)
Schools: Number of pupils
Bulletin: Education, Qualifications and Training (Section B)
Schools: Number of teachers
Bulletin: Education, Qualifications and Training (Section A)
Second homes
Bulletin: Housing (Section D)
Section 106 agreements for housing additions
Bulletin: Housing (Section B)
Semi-detached property purchase prices
Bulletin: Housing (Section C)
Services, Access to
Bulletin: Connectivity and Accessibility (Section E)
Services, Average number of
Bulletin: Connectivity and Accessibility (Section E)
Skills: On the job training
Bulletin: Education, Qualifications and Training (Section H)
Special education needs (SEN)
Bulletin: Education, Qualifications and Training (Section F)
Suicide rate: Registered deaths
Bulletin: Health and Wellbeing (Section A)
T
Teachers, Number of
Bulletin: Education, Qualifications and Training (Section A)
Terraced property purchase prices
Bulletin: Housing (Section C)
Tourism: Business count and employment
Bulletin: Rural Economic Bulletin (Section F)
Tourism: GVA from Tourism
Bulletin: Rural Economic Bulletin (Section E)
Training, On the job
Bulletin: Education, Qualifications and Training (Section H)
Transport: Car availability
Bulletin: Connectivity and Accessibility (Section D)
Travel behaviour
Bulletin: Connectivity and Accessibility (Section C)
Travel: Average distance travelled - long-term trends
Bulletin: Connectivity and Accessibility (Section C)
Travel: Average trip length - long-term trends
Bulletin: Connectivity and Accessibility (Section C)
Travel: Distance travelled in 2020
Bulletin: Connectivity and Accessibility (Section C)
Travel: Journey to school
Bulletin: Connectivity and Accessibility (Section C)
Travel: Trips made in 2020
Bulletin: Connectivity and Accessibility (Section C)
U
Unemployment rate
Bulletin: Rural Economic Bulletin (Section A)
Unemployment-related benefits: Jobseeker’s allowance and Universal Credit
Bulletin: Rural Economic Bulletin (Section D)
Universal Credit and Jobseeker’s allowance
Bulletin: Rural Economic Bulletin (Section D)
V
Vehicles, Electric
Bulletin: Connectivity and Accessibility (Section D)
Victimisation: Crime Survey for England and Wales
Bulletin: Communities and Households (Section F)
Volunteering
Bulletin: Health and Wellbeing (Section G)
W
Waiting list: Council housing
Bulletin: Housing (Section B)
Waiting times: NHS General Practice appointments
Bulletin: Health and Wellbeing (Section D)
Wellbeing in 2020/21
Bulletin: Health and Wellbeing (Section B)
Wellbeing over the last decade
Bulletin: Health and Wellbeing (Section B)
Wellbeing: frequency of loneliness
Bulletin: Health and Wellbeing (Section F)
Wellbeing: Indirect estimates of loneliness
Bulletin: Health and Wellbeing (Section F)
Workers: Employment rate
Bulletin: Rural Economic Bulletin (Section A)
Workforce education level by residence
Bulletin: Education, Qualifications and Training (Section I)
Workforce education level by work location
Bulletin: Education, Qualifications and Training (Section I)
Worry about crime
Bulletin: Communities and Households (Section F)