Free UK council data API & embeds

Drop this iframe into any page — news article, estate agent listing, mortgage calculator, campaign site — to show council tax and budget for any of England's 317 councils. Replace kent with the council slug you want.

Full dashboard (recommended)

<iframe
  src="https://www.civaccount.co.uk/embed/council/kent"
  width="100%"
  height="720"
  loading="lazy"
  title="Kent council tax & budget — CivAccount"
  style="border:0;border-radius:12px"></iframe>

Single card

Card types: your-bill, tax-bands, spending, suppliers, financial-health, leadership

<!-- Just the "your bill" card -->
<iframe
  src="https://www.civaccount.co.uk/embed/council/kent/your-bill"
  width="100%" height="320" loading="lazy"
  title="Kent your bill"
  style="border:0;border-radius:12px"></iframe>

Base URL: https://www.civaccount.co.uk/api/v1. No key. 100 requests per minute per IP. All responses are JSON under CORS *.

List councils

GET /api/v1/councils — query params: type (SC, SD, UA, MD, LB), search, limit (max 100), offset

curl https://www.civaccount.co.uk/api/v1/councils?type=UA&limit=10

Get one council

GET /api/v1/councils/[slug] — returns everything for that council (tax bands, budget, leadership, suppliers, grants, field-level source URLs).

curl https://www.civaccount.co.uk/api/v1/councils/kent

{
  "slug": "kent",
  "name": "Kent",
  "ons_code": "E10000016",
  "type": "SC",
  "type_name": "County Council",
  "council_tax": {
    "band_d_2025": 1842.66,
    "band_d_2024": 1765.44,
    ...
  },
  "budget": {
    "total_service": 1234567,
    "education": 456789,
    ...
  },
  "detailed": {
    "council_leader": "...",
    "chief_executive": "...",
    "top_suppliers": [ ... ],
    "grant_payments": [ ... ]
  },
  "field_sources": {
    "chief_executive_salary": {
      "url": "https://...gov.uk/...",
      "accessed": "2026-04-13"
    }
  }
}

Data change feed

GET /api/v1/diffs — returns commits that modified council data, with affected councils listed. Query param since (ISO date).

curl https://www.civaccount.co.uk/api/v1/diffs?since=2026-04-01

Bulk download

GET /api/v1/download — whole-dataset CSV or JSON. Good for one-off analysis; use the list endpoint for live apps.

# Bulk download — all 317 councils
curl -o councils.csv https://www.civaccount.co.uk/api/v1/download?format=csv
curl -o councils.json https://www.civaccount.co.uk/api/v1/download?format=json

Every council record links to its own .gov.uk source. National aggregates are traceable to one of these:

• •Council Tax 2025-26 — GOV.UK Council Tax Levels
• •Budgets — GOV.UK Revenue Expenditure (RA returns)
• •Population — ONS Mid-2024 Population Estimates
• •Waste — DEFRA Local Authority Collected Waste
• •Councillor counts / boundaries — LGBCE

Full methodology: civaccount.co.uk/methodology. Live data change log: /changelog.

Licence & terms

• Data: Open Government Licence v3.0 (because the source data is). Use commercially. Attribution appreciated, not required.
• Code: MIT. Fork, build on it, ship it.
• Rate limit: 100 req/min/IP. If you need more, get in touch.
• AI / LLM crawlers: see /llms.txt for a curated index of canonical URLs.