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UK Food Hygiene Compare

Surrey, East and West Sussex edition

Sources and method

Sources and method

Ratings: Food Standards Agency open data, file last modified 13 November 2026 (02:30 GMT). This page records exactly which files were used.

Source files

How establishments are placed in areas

Each FSA local authority is matched to its ONS Local Authority District (April 2025) code, and each district to its ITL2 area using the ONS LAD → ITL lookup (January 2025). Six authority names differ between the two sources and are matched by an explicit, checked list (for example “Hull City” → Kingston upon Hull, City of).

Two cases cannot be placed by the lookup alone: North Ayrshire, which spans two ITL2 areas, and the port health authorities (Hull and Goole Port, River Tees). Their establishments are placed by testing their coordinates against the ONS ITL2 boundaries (generalised to 20 m). If an establishment has no coordinates or falls outside every boundary, it is not guessed: it stays in the national edition only. There are 398 such establishments.

How figures are calculated

  • Shares use establishments with a published rating and an inspection date as the denominator. Exempt, awaiting inspection and awaiting publication are counted separately.
  • FHRS and FHIS figures are always calculated separately.
  • “Inspected within 2 years” compares the inspection date with the data date (13 November 2026).
  • Map shading is set separately for each scheme. FHRS areas use six navy bands set from the spread of all FHRS local authorities with at least 100 rated establishments (whole-number boundaries); the same bands shade FHRS regions on the UK map. Scottish (FHIS) local authorities use six ochre bands set from Scottish local authorities only, and Scotland’s six regions on the UK map use three ochre bands set from those regions. Navy and ochre colours are never on one scale.
  • Local authority pages with fewer than 100 rated establishments are kept out of search engines because the shares are unstable.

Coverage in this edition

25,725 establishments, 23,246 rated, 69.3% with coordinates. The FSA withholds addresses and coordinates for some businesses, for example those run from a private home.

Data coverage by local authority in Surrey, East and West Sussex
Local authorityONS codeEstablishmentsRatedWith coordinatesHow placed in this region
AdurE0700022346242877.3%ONS lookup
ArunE070002241,3361,21575.7%ONS lookup
Brighton and HoveE060000432,9962,80388.7%ONS lookup
ChichesterE070002251,4531,36571.6%ONS lookup
CrawleyE0700022697484070.5%ONS lookup
EastbourneE070000611,04294873.0%ONS lookup
ElmbridgeE070002071,10798770.5%ONS lookup
Epsom and EwellE0700020855843574.0%ONS lookup
GuildfordE070002091,1621,01273.9%ONS lookup
HastingsE0700006290985772.1%ONS lookup
HorshamE070002271,3581,16647.9%ONS lookup
LewesE0700006396085357.5%ONS lookup
Mid SussexE070002281,3681,25862.7%ONS lookup
Mole ValleyE0700021073869258.5%ONS lookup
Reigate and BansteadE070002111,11987865.3%ONS lookup
RotherE070000641,0341,02267.0%ONS lookup
RunnymedeE0700021272460677.6%ONS lookup
SpelthorneE0700021377668574.0%ONS lookup
Surrey HeathE0700021469259673.4%ONS lookup
TandridgeE0700021570362462.3%ONS lookup
WaverleyE070002161,05695355.4%ONS lookup
WealdenE070000651,3761,34058.2%ONS lookup
WokingE0700021779573355.2%ONS lookup
WorthingE070002291,02795075.3%ONS lookup

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