State of the Countryside 2008 provides a comprehensive description of social, economic and environmental conditions and changes across rural England, highlighting the main challenges and future trends for government and other organisations.

Topics: data state-of-the-countryside state-of-the-countryside 

'Promoting Fair Access to Services' will be a major area of our work on an on-going basis...

Topics: rural-services young-people access-to-services children-and-families education data jobs digital-inclusion 

Service availability and accessibility has been a key rural policy issue for many years. In order to monitor changing levels of service availability, we combine datasets that show where outlets of particular services can be found, with postcode level information on the distribution of households.

Topics: data rural-services rural-services data access-to-services access-to-services 

In addition to our annual State of the Countryside report we recognise the need for more detailed, topic-focused updates, produced as new data and information is released...

Topics: young-people education state-of-the-countryside housing financial-inclusion upland-communities uplands data data older-people 

The State of the Countryside report presents a large amount of data and evidence. Although the report focuses on the national picture, where possible we have also analysed the data by region.

Topics: strategic-analysis rural-urban-definitions data state-of-the-countryside state-of-the-countryside 

Access to services for people living and working in rural areas is a key issue. A lack of mobility can cause real hardship...

Topics: access-to-services regeneration transport rural-services rural-places rural-advocate rural-places rural-services data access-to-services 

Defining what we mean by a ‘rural area’ is a complicated and sometimes contentious issue...

Topics: strategic-analysis rural-urban-definitions data rural-urban-definition state-of-the-countryside 

When the Commission was launched in March 2005, we announced that we would undertake a major baseline study on rural disadvantage...

Topics: data disadvantage poverty older-people 

The State of the Countryside report, which we publish every year, sets out to provide a broad picture of social, economic and environmental conditions and change across rural England...

Topics: state-of-the-countryside upland-communities uplands data state-of-the-countryside housing 

To complement and support the work of the Rural Advocate and our independent watchdog responsibilities, we have brought together survey-based information on the perceptions and priorities of rural people.

Topics: rural-insights data disadvantage rural-advocate