ONS FLOW DATA
Population movement explorer
A visual starting point for exploring migration and population flows between areas. The Census 2021 origin-destination products can be filtered down to local authority and smaller geographies.
Flow sourceONSCensus origin-destination
CoverageEWCensus 2021 products
GeographyLocal authorityselected level
ModeCommutingselected flow
How the flow dataset is structured
This page is the front-end shell for a larger flow dataset. ONS origin-destination products support movement between places; the detailed matrix can be added as a static data asset so the browser does not repeatedly hit an external API.
Sources and notes are shown on each tool. Politics By Numbers presents descriptive statistics and does not rank places, people or political choices.
Historical flow context
Census origin-destination products
ONS publishes origin-destination flow products for 2011 and 2021. Workplace definitions and the pandemic affect comparability for travel-to-work flows.