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Latest figures, UK

Inflation (CPIH)

12 months to September 2026

3.6%

up from 3.3% the previous month

ONS 21 Oct Piece Release

Employment rate

June to August 2026

75.3%

up by 0.2 percentage points on both the year and the latest quarter

ONS 20 Oct Piece Release

Unemployment rate

June to August 2026

4.7%

down by 0.1 percentage points on the both the year and the latest quarter

ONS 20 Oct Piece Release

GDP growth

Quarter 2 (Apr to June) 2026

0.5%

following an unrevised increase of 0.6% in Quarter 1 (Jan to Mar) 2026

ONS 30 Sep Piece Release

Private rents

12 months to September 2026 (provisional estimate)

3.8%

this annual growth rate is unchanged from the 12 months to August 2026

ONS 21 Oct Piece Release

Release notes

  1. 21 May to 1 October 2026

    Social homes across the UK, as each nation counts them

    England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland each count the homes rented from councils and housing associations in their own way. Each nation’s latest count, and the years its own table goes back.

  2. 19 August 2026

    Private rents in Great Britain rose 3.7% in the year to July 2026

    £1,405 average monthly private rent, Great Britain, July 2026 (ONS)

  3. 19 August 2026

    Household income per head in every council, 2008 and 2024

    £26,490 disposable income per head, England, 2024 (ONS)

  4. 29 July 2026

    ONS estimates England and Wales had 62,009,993 residents at mid-2025

    What ONS printed on 29 July 2026 for every council in England and Wales: people, births, deaths and moves.

  5. 21 July 2026 (Nomis update)

    Great Britain’s employment rate was 75.5% in 2025

    What ONS printed for employment, unemployment, economic inactivity and workless households in every council, region and nation of Great Britain.

Coming up

  1. Fri 23 Oct Retail sales
  2. Fri 23 Oct House building
  3. Tue 27 Oct Waiting times for planned care, Scotland
  4. Thu 29 Oct Homelessness and rough sleeping, Wales
  5. Tue 3 Nov A&E activity and waiting times, Scotland
  6. Thu 12 Nov GDP first quarterly estimate
  7. Thu 12 Nov GDP monthly estimate
  8. Thu 12 Nov A&E attendances, England provisional
  9. Thu 12 Nov Waiting lists for planned care, England provisional

Full calendar, eight weeks ahead

Deep dives

Council tax still rests on what homes were worth in 1991

A band is fixed by a home’s value on one day: 1 April 1991 in England and Scotland, 1 April 2003 in Wales. Set each council’s bill beside today’s prices, then see what it would be if bills followed them.

  1. IThe bands
  2. IIValue against bill
  3. IIIHomes by band
  4. IVEvery council
  5. VIf bills followed prices
  6. VIWhat has been proposed

21 Oct 2026

The State Pension from 2010/11 to 2024/25: what it cost, who it paid, what it paid

DWP’s own figures for the bill, the people and the weekly rate, beside ONS’s count of people aged 65 and over. Then pick one measure and see what each pension would pay had it risen with that alone.

  1. IThe bill
  2. IIThe people
  3. IIIThe rate and the lock
  4. IVIf the rate had followed one measure
  5. VPeople of pension age

21 Oct 2026

Briefs

Is crime going up?

The crime survey and police records count crime in England and Wales in different ways. Guess how often crime reaches the police, then see what each count can tell you.

Take a guess 12 Oct 2026

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