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Neighbourhood belonging
Part of the Trust and Wellbeing domain. Share of adults who feel they belong strongly to their immediate neighbourhood, England.
Latest data
Latest reading
2025/26
Change between the two latest observations (2025 to 2025/26), in stress score.
A lower reading is treated as worse for this indicator.
Score composition
Stress score
Since the August 2026 release
What changed on this indicator between the two releases: new observation, source changed, normalisation changed.
Blended from two measured components: (2/3 weight) and trend (1/3 weight); where no trend can be computed the metric is scored on its level alone. Volatility is published as a diagnostic and does not enter the blend. Full formula on the methodology page.
Level · 2/3 weight
Percentile: this metric is scored against its own history, where today sits between its best and worst recorded years.
Trend · 1/3 weight
Measured from the direction and size of the change between the two most recent readings.
Volatility · diagnostic, not blended
24Measured from how much this indicator has swung period on period across its recorded history.
Data confidence and provenance
Confidence and source
How much weight to put on the reading, the mean data-confidence across the component metrics (source quality, recency and completeness).
Source
Community and Engagement Survey (formerly Community Life Survey)
- Update frequency
- Annual
- Reliability
- medium
Provenance
- Provider
- Department for Culture, Media and Sport
- Series ID
- dcms_community_life
- Frequency
- Annual
- Accessed
- 25 August 2026
Known weakness
England; the Community Life Survey has a 2016-2020 gap in published tables and a 2020/21 collection-mode change. From 2025/26 the source is the Community and Engagement Survey, which replaced it in October 2025, so the latest point spans two collection methodologies.
Notes
Verified official value from Department for Culture, Media and Sport (dcms_community_life), accessed 2026-08-25.
Historical values
History
| Period | Value | Relative |
|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 58 | |
| 2015 | 59 | |
| 2016 | 60 | |
| 2020 | 63 | |
| 2021 | 65 | |
| 2022 | 63 | |
| 2024 | 61 | |
| 2025 | 62 | |
| 2026 | 61 |