Solutions for every footfall decision
Replace gut feel with evidence. Whether you're choosing a site, letting a unit, bidding for funding or underwriting a deal, WhereThen shows how many people visit a place, when they come and who they are.
Find your sector
The decision differs by sector, but the evidence is the same. See how footfall data applies to your world.
Retail
Pick sites that will trade, benchmark stores against the footfall they actually receive, and match ranges and rotas to who really visits.
Explore retailCommercial Real Estate
Attract tenants, justify rents and prove scheme performance with independent visitor evidence — leasing ammunition you can stand behind.
Explore commercial real estateLocal Authorities
Baseline your town centres, evidence funding bids and demonstrate objectively what every intervention achieved.
Explore local authoritiesBusiness Improvement Districts
Report objective footfall to levy payers, measure events and campaigns, and build the evidence base for your renewal ballot.
Explore BIDsInvestors
Underwrite location-dependent businesses with independent footfall evidence — due diligence, portfolio benchmarking and rollout testing.
Explore investorsLeisure & Hospitality
Choose venues where your customers already are, and match opening hours, rotas and offers to real visit patterns.
Explore leisure & hospitalityWhat the platform does
Six core capabilities, available self-serve in your browser — no data science team required.
Footfall analytics
Daily and hourly visitor counts for any UK location in coverage, split by pedestrians and non-pedestrians, with month-by-month trends.
Visit timing
See how visits fluctuate by hour, day of week and month — the demand curve behind opening hours, rotas and event planning.
Visitor demographics
Census-based profiles built from visitors' home locations: age, household composition, education and economic activity of the people who actually visit.
Catchment analysis
Understand where visitors travel from and how far a location's pull really reaches — including drive-time isochrones.
Points of interest
Map the competing and complementary businesses around any site to understand its context and competition.
Compare and rank
Score existing sites, prospects and competitor locations side by side, with every chart downloadable for your own reporting.
Work with us your way
WhereThen is more than a dashboard. Behind it is WhereData, a location-data company that can support you at whatever depth you need — from instant self-serve analytics to fully bespoke consultancy.
Self-serve platform
Instant footfall analytics in your browser. Search a location and see visitor volumes, visit timing and demographics in minutes — no data team required, and priced so smaller businesses can afford it.
Get 3 free searchesRaw footfall data
License the datasets behind the platform: hourly footfall and footfall-origin data for UK towns and cities, delivered ready for your own models, GIS tools and data warehouse.
Talk to us about dataBespoke analysis & insights
Our analysts answer your specific question — site shortlists, catchment reports, portfolio benchmarks, before-and-after impact studies — delivered as clear reports you can put in front of a board or committee.
Discuss a briefConsultancy
Work with the WhereData team on the harder problems: methodology, data integration, ongoing monitoring programmes and evidence for high-stakes location decisions.
Talk to an expertNot sure where to start?
Try the platform free with five real coffee-shop locations, or tell us about the decision you're facing and we'll point you at the right level of support.
Three free searches, anywhere in the UK. See real footfall for the locations you actually care about — no card required.