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Synthetic working data

Explore the starter data

We used AI-assisted research to investigate the published sources, then created 20 non-sensitive synthetic records shaped by what those sources expose. It is starter data for exploration—not real service data or evidence.

Read the note on this dataset

Twenty invented quarterly rows standing in for the social renting demand figures published by area, with five lettered area bands, a banded count of households waiting, and a banded description of the condition of the stock around them.

Every record in the file

Inspect, compare, understand

Use 20 synthetic quarterly rows across five area bands to explore service patterns without property, household, or tenancy records. Switch views without losing the description, source file, or limitations on this page.

SYN-HI-01Urban area A2025-Q1over 6000mostly band D
SYN-HI-02Urban area A2025-Q2over 6000mostly band D
SYN-HI-03Urban area A2025-Q3over 6000mostly band C or better
SYN-HI-04Urban area A2025-Q4over 6000mostly band C or better
SYN-HI-05Urban area B2025-Q13000-6000mostly band D
SYN-HI-06Urban area B2025-Q23000-6000mostly band D
SYN-HI-07Urban area B2025-Q33000-6000mostly band D
SYN-HI-08Urban area B2025-Q41500-3000mostly band D
SYN-HI-09Mixed area C2025-Q11500-3000mostly band D
SYN-HI-10Mixed area C2025-Q21500-3000mostly band E or lower
SYN-HI-11Mixed area C2025-Q31500-3000mostly band E or lower
SYN-HI-12Mixed area C2025-Q41500-3000mostly band E or lower
SYN-HI-13Rural area D2025-Q1500-1500mostly band E or lower
SYN-HI-14Rural area D2025-Q2500-1500mostly band E or lower
SYN-HI-15Rural area D2025-Q3500-1500mostly band E or lower
SYN-HI-16Rural area D2025-Q4500-1500mostly band D
SYN-HI-17Rural area E2025-Q1under 500mostly band E or lower
SYN-HI-18Rural area E2025-Q2under 500mostly band E or lower
SYN-HI-19Rural area E2025-Q3under 500mostly band E or lower
SYN-HI-20Rural area E2025-Q4under 500mostly band E or lower
Synthetic working data

AI-assisted research helped identify and interpret the published sources. We then created a small, non-sensitive synthetic dataset shaped by the information those sources expose. It is for exploration—not evidence, training, or operational decisions.

Method note

How it was prepared

AI authored fictional waiting-count and stock-condition bands for lettered areas across four quarters.

Conditions for use

What this dataset cannot tell you

  • The areas are letters and the bands are invented, so nothing here describes housing need or housing condition anywhere in Northern Ireland.
  • A banded count by area and quarter cannot show an urgent circumstance, and urgency is usually the thing that matters.
  • Condition and need are held here as two coarse bands, which is the safe choice and also removes almost everything a housing team would actually work from.
  • It is invented. No record describes a real person, place, case, or measurement, and no result computed from it is evidence that anything works in a live service.