Analysis

Central services spend per head

Central services spend per head. MHCLG Revenue Outturn (RO), England, billing-authority level. Area-level record, not a measure of council performance.

fiscalUnit: £Source: MHCLG

The metrics below move with Central services spend per head across UK places. A positive correlation means the two tend to rise together; a negative one means as this rises, the other tends to fall.

Strongest positive correlatesRise together

#	Metric	Strength	r	n
1	SDLT Transactionseconomic	strong	0.63	69
2	Personal Theft Ratecrime	moderate	0.45	403
3	Public health spend per headeconomic	moderate	0.44	496
4	Housing (General Fund) spend per head

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Correlation ≠ causation. A strong correlation does not mean one metric causes the other. Both may be driven by a shared underlying factor, or the link may be coincidental.
r is the Pearson correlation coefficient (−1 to +1); n is the number of places compared. Larger n means a more reliable estimate.
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Data: precomputed cross-metric correlations (latest period).

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#	Metric	Strength	r	n
1	On-street parking net expenditure per headeconomic	moderate	-0.42	496
2	Home Ownership %housing	moderate	-0.41	496
3	2+ Cars/Vans %social	weak	-0.34	496
4	Asylum support: Initial accommodationsocial	weak	-0.33	38
5	Dementia & Alzheimer's mortality rate (crude)health	weak	-0.29	496
6	Hypertension: QOF prevalencehealth	weak	-0.29	496
7	Total fertility ratedemographic	weak	-0.28	496
8	Influenza & pneumonia mortality rate (crude)health	weak	-0.28	496
9	Dementia: QOF prevalencehealth	weak	-0.27	496
10	General fertility ratedemographic	weak	-0.27	496
11	Sikh Schoolsreligion	weak	-0.26	33
12	Skilled Trades %economy	weak	-0.26	496
13	All-cause mortality rate (crude)health	weak	-0.26	496
14	Circulatory disease mortality rate (crude)health	weak	-0.25	496
15	Construction %economy	weak	-0.25	496

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