BRMAs showing LHA rates

Valuation Office Agency data outlines the size, shape, and Local Housing Allowance rates for England's Broad Rental Market Areas. The dataset is published by Cambridgeshire Insight under the OGL-UK-3.0 license and was last updated on 2026-07-08. It provides information on how these areas and their corresponding housing benefit rates are determined.

Use Cases

• Map the geographic boundaries of Broad Rental Market Areas based on the described spatial data.
• Analyze the distribution of Local Housing Allowance rates across different regions of England.
• Study the relationship between rental market area size and the housing allowance rates set for them.

Strengths

• Data originates from the authoritative Valuation Office Agency.
• Available in multiple formats including JSON, HTML, and CSV.
• Explicitly licensed as OGL-UK-3.0 for open use.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Freshness should be verified as the last update is dated 2026-07-08.

Provenance

Source

Valuation Office Agency (VOA), published via Cambridgeshire Insight.

Collection Method

Likely compiled and published by government agency for public information.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:31:00.835550

Geography

England