Identity and geography
Local authority district (LAD)
The council area a property sits in: about 360 in Great Britain, the second geography MarketCode publishes indices and rankings for.
Also called: local authority, LAD, borough, council area.
Definition
Local authority district, as the data uses it
Local authority districts are the boroughs, districts, unitary authorities and council areas that run planning, council tax billing and housing locally. The Office for National Statistics gives each a nine-character GSS code (Camden is E09000007), but MarketCode tools take the name, because that is what people type and the name is unambiguous once matched.
The sold-price and asking indices, the market cube and the rankings are published for every authority with enough sales; the rent index is validated against the ONS rent index at exactly this grain. A local authority is also the planning authority, which is why the planning tools return the authority and its portal for a location.
Tools
Tools that return it
House price index series
market_index_series()The published house-price INDEX for one postcode district or local authority: the level per month (base period = 100), the forecast tail flagged, and provenance saying how the index was built.
Asking-rent index (portal listings, ONS-validated)
asking_rent_index_series()Hedonic ASKING-RENT index for one postcode district, local authority or Great Britain, from portal lettings, 2022M01 = 100, with bands and SEs. This is the residential rent index; commercial_rent_index_series is the VOA one for commercial property.
Market facts for an area
market_facts()Price, rent, yield and days-on-market by geography × asset class ×
Planning authority for a location
planning_applications()The local planning authority for a location and its planning-portal URL.
See also
Related terms
- Postcode district, area and sector: The parts of a UK postcode: the area ("SW"), the district ("SW11") and the sector ("SW11 1"); most MarketCode area statistics are published at district grain.
- GSS code: The nine-character statistical code the ONS gives every UK administrative area; MarketCode accepts names in most places and bridges them to codes internally.
FAQ
Questions about local authority district
What does Local authority district mean?
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The council area a property sits in: about 360 in Great Britain, the second geography MarketCode publishes indices and rankings for.
Which MarketCode tools return local authority district?
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House price index series, Asking-rent index (portal listings, ONS-validated), Market facts for an area, Planning authority for a location. Each runs as an MCP tool in Claude, ChatGPT, Codex and Cursor and as a REST endpoint with an API key, at the same price.
Is LAD the same thing?
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Yes. local authority, LAD, borough are other names for what this entry defines; MarketCode uses "Local authority district" in its tool descriptions and responses.
See it on a real address.
Thirty minutes, your property or area, every figure sourced.