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WhereToLive London open data MCP Server

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WhereToLive London open data is answering right now. Last checked 3 min ago. It exposes 7 tools.

London postcodes and districts from official open data: prices, crime, schools, rents, commutes

Uptime history 10 days of history
10 days agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
92 of 92 checks
7
Tools
read from the server
345 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

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Today is the operative word: we check WhereToLive London open data every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

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Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 3 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add london-open-data --transport http https://wheretolive.xyz/mcp
Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address
https://wheretolive.xyz/mcp
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.london-open-data]
url = "https://wheretolive.xyz/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "london-open-data": {
      "url": "https://wheretolive.xyz/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "london-open-data": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://wheretolive.xyz/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 7

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

london
check_london_postcode
Open-data facts at one full London postcode (e.g. "E17 4QH"): the Environment Agency flood zone at its centre; whether its centre is inside a conservation area, listed building outline, Article 4 direction area or tree preservation order area (planning.data.gov.uk, with "unknown" where the borough publishes no data); its Census neighbourhood's police.uk crime rate per 1,000 residents against London, Index of Multiple Deprivation decile and housing tenure; the nearest state schools with their own Ofsted grade and the nearest stations, by straight-line distance; door-to-door commute minutes from its postcode sector to 12 work hubs; council tax bands for its borough; and its district page. Every block says which area it describes; a single home can differ.
find_london_district
Resolve a place name, borough, Tube or rail station, outward code or full postcode to the London postcode district(s) the other tools take. Returns up to 15 matches with their borough(s) and how each matched. To screen districts on prices, commute, crime, schools, flood or rent, use find_london_districts instead.
find_london_districts
Find the London postcode districts that meet several open-data criteria at once: a maximum Land Registry median house price, a maximum commute to a work hub, crime at or below the London rate or under a rate per 1,000 residents, a minimum number of Outstanding state schools, a maximum share of postcodes in flood zone 3, a maximum ONS official borough rent for a number of bedrooms, and an optional borough. Each match carries the figures that qualified it, with sample sizes, and its page URL; districts that cannot be checked for lack of data are counted, not hidden. When nothing matches, it returns the districts that miss by only one criterion, closest first, with by how much, and names the criterion that rules out most of them. Houses only: flat medians are not compared across districts (retirement flats are not identified in Land Registry data).
commute
get_commute_times
Typical door-to-door public transport minutes (TfL Journey Planner, 09:00 weekday departure) from a London postcode district to London work hubs, quickest first, with the district's quickest sector. Hubs: canary-wharf (Canary Wharf), city-of-london (Bank / Liverpool Street / Moorgate), kings-cross (King's Cross), westminster (Westminster), oxford-circus (Oxford Circus), london-bridge (London Bridge), paddington (Paddington), stratford (Stratford), hammersmith (Hammersmith), victoria (Victoria), waterloo (Waterloo), farringdon (Farringdon).
compare
compare_london_districts
Side-by-side open-data figures for 2 to 6 London postcode districts and London as a whole: median sold price of existing houses, residential crime per 1,000 residents, Outstanding state schools, share of postcodes in flood zone 3, Band D council tax, the main borough's ONS official rent, the share of residents in England's most deprived 20% of areas, Census 2021 tenure, and optionally commute minutes to one hub.
district
get_district_profile
Open-data profile of one London postcode district: HM Land Registry median sold prices of existing flats and houses (12 months, with sales counts and London figures) and five years of yearly medians, police.uk residential crime per 1,000 residents against London, Ofsted grades of its state schools with the Outstanding ones named, the share of its postcodes in Environment Agency flood zones 2 and 3, council tax bands and ONS official rents for its borough(s), and who lives there (Census 2021 tenure and age, and the share of residents in England's most deprived areas on the Index of Multiple Deprivation 2025). Each block has its window, definition, caveats and source, plus a sentence that keeps them together, and the district page URL to cite.
rank
rank_london_districts
London postcode districts ranked on one open-data measure: lowest_crime_rate (police.uk residential crime per 1,000 residents), cheapest_houses (Land Registry median sold price of existing houses; flats are not ranked), most_outstanding_schools (Ofsted), or shortest_commute (needs hub). Optional borough filter, commute cut-off and reversed order (most expensive, highest crime, longest commute first). Ranks are London-wide.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://wheretolive.xyz/mcp streamable-http answering 279 ms 3 min ago

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WhereToLive London open data — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can WhereToLive London open data do?
It exposes 7 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: check_london_postcode, compare_london_districts, find_london_district, find_london_districts, get_commute_times, get_district_profile and 1 more. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →
Is WhereToLive London open data working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 92 of 92 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 345 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect WhereToLive London open data?
Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.
Does WhereToLive London open data need an API key?
No. WhereToLive London open data completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 7 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is WhereToLive London open data?
It answers our handshake in 345 ms on average, which is faster than 45% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.