Is your
neighbourhood
making you fat?
The food outlets around you shape what you eat more than willpower ever will. We mapped every rated food establishment in England using open government data to score your local food environment.
"Food deserts aren't about distance to a supermarket. They're about what surrounds you every day."
The score is built from three signals
Outlet composition
We pull every FSA-rated food business within 800m of your postcode and classify them: supermarkets, takeaways, fast food, cafés, restaurants, convenience stores. The ratio matters.
Hygiene baseline
Average hygiene scores across all local establishments act as a proxy for food quality standards. Areas dominated by low-rated outlets correlate with worse dietary outcomes.
Deprivation context
We overlay the ONS Index of Multiple Deprivation to show whether your food environment is a cause or a symptom and where the structural problems actually sit.
What the data already shows
* Figures based on FSA data as of Q1 2025. Methodology is open source and peer-reviewable. Read the code →
Built in the open
This is an independent project built on entirely open data. No venture funding, no data harvesting, no agenda beyond making government data legible to the people it describes.
The scoring methodology is documented, debatable, and improvable. If you think the weights are wrong, open a pull request.
View source on GitHub →- FSA API establishment data
- Postcodes.io geocoding
- ONS deprivation index
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