Community and Engagement Survey 2025/26: neighbourhood
The findings of the Community and Engagement Survey for neighbourhood and community in 2025/26.
Applies to England
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A report providing commentary on these findings, including demographic and geographic breakdowns, will be published here on 14 August 2026
We published all of this data in tables on 31 July 2026.
For the summary report of all headline findings for this publication, or to find the detailed statistics with full demographic and geographic breakdowns for the other topics covered in this survey, please return to the main landing page for this release.
The Community and Engagement Survey (CES) is a continuous push to web survey of people aged 16 and over in England, designed to explore how people across England engage with their community and with culture, media and live sport and allows respondents’ views to be heard on a range of issues affecting their local area. In October 2025, the Community and Engagement Survey replaced DCMS’ Participation Survey and Community Life Survey.
For guidance to interpretation of these statistics, the technical report and other documents relevant to this publication, please view the supplementary documents page.
- Released: 31 July 2026.
- Period covered: October 2025 to March 2026.
- Geographic coverage: National, regional and local authority level data for England.
- Next release date: September 2026 (quarterly data covering April to June 2026)
Additional Information
The Community and Engagement Survey is asked of people aged 16 and over in England. Currently there is no harmonised survey or set of questions within the devolved administrations of the UK. Data on many areas of the Community and Engagement Survey are available in the Scottish Household Survey, National Survey for Wales and Northern Ireland Continuous Household Survey.
The pre-release access document contains a list of ministers and officials who have received privileged early access to this release of Community and Engagement Survey data. In line with best practice, the list has been kept to a minimum and those given access for briefing purposes had a maximum of 24 hours. Details on the pre-release access arrangements for this dataset are available on the supplementary documents page.
Our statistical practice is regulated by the OSR. OSR sets the standards of trustworthiness, quality and value in the Code of Practice for Statistics that all producers of official statistics should adhere to.
You are welcome to contact us directly with any comments about how we meet these standards by emailing evidence@dcms.gov.uk. Alternatively, you can contact OSR by emailing regulation@statistics.gov.uk or via the OSR website.
The responsible analyst for this release is Dea Begaj. For enquiries on this release, contact cesurvey@dcms.gov.uk