# How far to the bank

> Sixteen per cent of Bexley lives within a mile of a bank. Add the Post Office and it is ninety-nine.

- Category: Money
- Cadence: annual
- Status: Published on a annual cadence.
- Dataset key: `cash-access-borough`
- Source: [Financial Conduct Authority](https://www.fca.org.uk/data)
- Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0 — [terms](https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/)
- Canonical page: [https://londongraph.com/g/how-far-to-the-bank](https://londongraph.com/g/how-far-to-the-bank)
- Machine-readable record: [https://londongraph.com/data/how-far-to-the-bank](https://londongraph.com/data/how-far-to-the-bank)

## Methodology

The share of each borough's residents living within one mile of somewhere they can get cash, from the FCA's access-to-cash monitoring, published twice a year. The first series counts only brick-and-mortar branches of the larger banks and building societies that provide personal current accounts; the second adds Post Office counters, which is the FCA's own next grouping. The FCA publishes fourteen groupings in all, and for London thirteen are flat — every borough between 98% and 100% — because ATMs and cashback are everywhere. Branches are not, which is why these two are the pair worth drawing. Distances are straight-line to the nearest point, so a mile here is not a mile walked. Population weights are the FCA's own; this ingest re-weights London from the borough rows and checks the result against the FCA's published regional figure before writing anything.

## Visualisations

- [Overview](https://londongraph.com/g/how-far-to-the-bank): Sixteen per cent of Bexley lives within a mile of a bank. Add the Post Office and it is ninety-nine.
- [Distribution](https://londongraph.com/g/how-far-to-the-bank?view=distribution): Show every published value around the median and quartiles.

## Citation guidance

Attribute the original publisher named above and identify LondonGraph as the visualisation and methodology layer. Do not describe live values as a historical census, and do not present placeholder values as observations.