Mission zones

Draw the streets you serve. We connect the data.

A mission zone is a polygon you trace on a real map. Once saved, Hailo joins it to the public datasets that already describe that ground — census, deprivation, crime, health, housing — and turns the result into indicators, briefings, alerts and reports.

Real boundaries · public data · no personal records
Step 1 · Draw

Trace a boundary on a real street map.

Open the editor, click around the streets you care about, and close the polygon. The boundary follows real geography — not a postcode or catchment.

Sheffield S2 · example boundaryView on OpenStreetMap

What this gives you

  • A geographic boundary stored against your organisation — editable any time.
  • Hailo matches the polygon to underlying census areas (LSOAs in the UK, tracts in the US).
  • Indicators begin appearing within minutes — no spreadsheets to upload.
Step 2 · Connect

Public datasets, joined to your geography.

Hailo overlays your polygon against the small-area datasets your government already publishes. Nothing personal, nothing scraped — just the open statistics that describe a place.

United Kingdom
  • Census 2021 (ONS)
  • Indices of Multiple Deprivation
  • Police.uk street-level crime
  • NHS health profiles
United States
  • American Community Survey (5-yr)
  • Census tract boundaries
  • FBI Uniform Crime Reporting
  • CDC PLACES health data
How it joins
  • LSOA / tract intersection
  • Population-weighted aggregation
  • Automatic refresh on update
  • Provenance recorded per value
Step 3 · Indicators

Community Data appears, indicator by indicator.

Inside the dashboard, every indicator is sourced, dated and traceable. Trends are computed against the previous published release for the same geography.

Community Data · Govanhill, Glasgow
Hardship +1.6 pp

Children in low-income families

28.4%

DWP, 2024 release

Housing +0.4 pp

Overcrowded households

14.1%

Census 2021

Safety -8.2%

Reported anti-social behaviour

312 / yr

Police Scotland

Wellbeing ±0.1 pp

Long-term limiting illness

19.7%

NHS Scotland

Learning +3.0 pp

Pupils with English as additional language

46%

Scottish Govt

Hardship +0.9 pp

Universal Credit claimants

11.8%

DWP, monthly

Step 4 · Reflect

AI briefings and alerts, grounded in your numbers.

Hailo summarises what the indicators are saying, in plain language, and surfaces meaningful changes as alerts. Every claim references the indicator and date it came from.

Weekly Briefing · Govanhill

Child poverty rose by 1.6 percentage points in the latest DWP release, while Universal Credit claims also crept up. Together these point to renewed household financial strain across the zone.

Anti-social behaviour reports continued the slow decline seen over the last four quarters — worth naming on Sunday as a small encouragement.

Suggested action

Brief the pastoral team on the rise in child poverty before next term's school engagement.

Children in low-income families · 2024UC claimants · monthlyASB reports · 4Q trailing
Alerts · Govanhill
Attention

Child poverty rose 1.6 pp

Latest DWP release · zone average now 28.4%

Watch

UC claimants trending upward

Third consecutive month of increase

Encouraging

ASB reports down 8.2%

Year-on-year decrease sustained

Info

New NHS Health Profile published

Indicators refreshed automatically

Step 5 · Share

Reports leaders can actually read.

Export a one-page PDF for a PCC meeting, an elders' away-day, or a funder. Reports cite their sources and the date the data was retrieved.

Report · Govanhill Quarterly · Q4 2025
Govanhill boundary

Headlines

  • Households in zone7,420
  • Average IMD decile2 of 10
  • Indicators tracked37
  • Alerts this quarter6

Generated automatically from live indicator data. Each section links back to its source in the Community Data dashboard.

What stays true

No invented numbers. No personal data.

Public sources only

Every indicator comes from a named government or NHS dataset. Provenance is recorded on every value.

Geographic, not personal

Hailo never holds individuals — only population-level statistics for the area you've drawn.

Grounded AI

Briefings and alerts cite the indicators they're built from. If a number isn't available, Hailo says so.

Begin

Draw your first zone.

You can edit or delete it any time. Indicators appear within minutes.