the platform

Get the Answer for Any Location.

One platform that replaces fragmented datasets and delivers clear, reliable location answers without the cost or complexity.

People walking on a wet city street under umbrellas near Tower Bridge on a cloudy day.

A trusted partner for customer-led product companies

Core capability

From a question to a decision, in five steps.

No analyst, no consultant, no waiting a quarter. Here's exactly how a location question becomes an answer you can act on.

01

Define the areas you care about

Draw or upload the exact polygons that matter, your stores, a competitor set, a scheme, a high street or a whole town centre. huq calls these your Saved Areas.

02

huq measures the real world

An always-on, opt-in mobility panel captures how people actually move. We model and deduplicate it into footfall, catchment, dwell, demographics and spend for every area.

03

We validate it against ground truth

Every estimate is regression-tested against hundreds of authoritative external sources and tracked on a live model scorecard. So the number you see is one you can defend.

04

Get a decision-ready answer

Pick a pre-built question template or compare areas directly. The platform returns a structured, ranked answer in seconds, not a raw export you have to wrangle.

05

Export it, or pipe it into your stack

Download a board-ready report, or switch on a scheduled feed that lands the same data in your aI tools and models.

Core capability

Everything you need to know about any place

See exactly how many people visit and when

Real-time and historical visitor counts for any location in the UK. Track daily patterns, weekday vs weekend shifts, and seasonal trends with confidence.

Footfall and movement insights

Daypart breakdown morning, afternoon, evening

Year-on-year and indexed comparisons

Discover where your visitors really come from.

Map the geographic origin of visitors to any location. Understand primary, secondary and tertiary catchment areas, or define custom catchment units, to inform expansion, marketing and supply-chain decisions.

Postcode-level catchment mapping

Visitor origin heatmaps

Drive-time and public transport zone analysis

Know who visits not just how many.

Visitor profiles across age, gender, income, lifestyle, and motivation. Understand whether a location attracts the customers your brand actually needs.

Age, gender, and income profiling

Mosaic and ACORN segmentation

Compare visitor profile to your target customer

WHO WE HELP

Ready to Make More Confident Location Decisions?

Book a personalised demo with our location intelligence experts and see how huq can help you unlock new opportunities.

What every answer draws on

Six signals behind every answer.

How we know it's right

Not a black box. Here's the working.

Every figure travels the same pipeline before it reaches you. And unlike other providers, we publish how well our models perform.

Opt-in panel

Privacy first, real world movement signals.

Modelled

Scaled to true population level estimates.

Deduplicated

Unique visitors, not double counted devices.

Validated

Regression tested vs authoritative sources.

Refreshed daily

A live scorecard, updated every day.

14.5%
Median MAPE vs ground truth (Germany)
5000+
European target areas validated
#1
Dataset across EU & Middle East
22
Markets live and growing
Who uses it, and how

Built for retail. Trusted well beyond it.

Retail occupiers & Asset owners

Retail

Expansion and property teams screen markets in days, diagnose underperforming stores against true passing footfall, and walk into the investment committee with a validated case.

Asset owners & landlords

Owners and asset managers prove a pitch's real footfall, set and defend rents at review, and attract the right tenants with independent, timestamped evidence.

Public sector & investment teams

Economic development & regeneration teams

Councils, BIDs and regeneration teams measure high-street vitality,
quantify the footfall impact of interventions and events, and build the
evidence base for funding bids.

Institutional & private investors

Investors underwrite and monitor retail and mixed-use assets with
independent, validated footfall from due diligence on acquisition to
ongoing performance monitoring.

What every answer draws on

Six signals behind every answer

01. Movement

Footfall & Catchment

How many people and where they travel From.

02. People

Demographics

Age, gender and Income of who show up.

03. People

Dwell & Frequency

How long they stay and how often they return

04. Value

Consumer Spend

Spend at location and by category, via experience

05. Rhythm

Day & Week parts

When Footfall happened, by hour and weekday.

06. Context

Benchmarking

Any area against your network and rivals.

Available in 22 countries

Australia, Belgium, France, Germany, UK, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Morocco, Netherland, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Saudi, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, UAE, USA

White Space Analysis

Visualize high-density pedestrian flow across city grids. Identify peak hours and habitual paths with 5-meter accuracy.

Data Feeds

Access movement, demographic, spend, and contextual datasets through a single, unified view built for location intelligence.

Projects

A workflow management tool that enables you to track retail expansion, portfolio, and area monitoring processes.

Also available · Huq Data Feeds

How the data reaches your stack.

Don't want a login? Switch on a feed instead. The same validated data lands as scheduled files in your cloud storage, ready for your BI tools and models, with schemas identical to the platform's exports.

Blend huq data with your internal sales data.

Power BI tools . Tableau, Power BI and Looker, seamlessly.

Feed your models. ML and financial forecasting pipelines.

Outcomes

Built for faster, more confident retail decisions.

Each use case links to a pre-built output so you can see exactly what the answer looks like before you commit.

Smarter expansion planning

Rank and short list locations with confidence. Replace gut feel with live footfall, catchment, and demographic data before you commit capital.

instant visibility

Better performance benchmarking

Compare every location in your estate against the market. Spot outliers, understand root causes, and take action. not just observe.

Daily

Faster site selection decisions

Stronger catchment understanding

Know exactly who visits, where they come from, and how far they travel. to inform marketing zones, range, and supply chain priorities.

Postcode

level Precision

Faster location analysis

Replace weeks of analyst time with instant answers. Ask your question, get a structured response. no data science required.

Minutes

Not weeks

Testimonials

Trusted by over 300 organisations.

huq brings together over a trillion data points huq movement, behaviour, spend, and context processed into a single, unified view of any location.

"huq's data has been a game-changer for us. The insights into footfall and visitor behaviour have given us the clarity we needed to optimise our retail strategy and make informed decisions."

Tom Haydney

UK Marketing & Product Manager
Kawai

"huq’s mobility data helps us to make better investment decisions and allows us to appropriately manage risk on behalf of our investor clients."

Jonathan Bayfield

Head of UK Real Estate Research
Aviva Investors

"huq’s platform gave us valuable data to support a key decision on potential new sites."

Dan Brogden

National Sales Manager
Puccinos

faq’s

Everything you need to know.

Get clarity on how huq helps teams understand locations, movement, and real-world activity with confidence.

How is the data collected?
huq combines multiple sources of anonymised and aggregated real-world movement data to understand how people interact with places over time. By analysing location signals alongside behavioural intelligence, the platform reveals patterns in footfall, dwell time, catchment behaviour and commercial activity while protecting individual privacy.
Is huq data GDPR compliant?
Yes. Privacy is fundamental to everything we do. All data processed by huq is anonymised and aggregated before analysis, ensuring compliance with GDPR and other applicable data protection regulations. No personally identifiable information is collected or exposed through the platform.
How accurate is the footfall data?
huq validates its datasets using rigorous statistical methodologies and continuous benchmarking against real-world observations. Our behavioural intelligence provides organisations with trusted, representative insights that support confident location, investment and operational decisions.
Do I need a data team to use this?
No. huq is designed for business users as well as analysts. Interactive dashboards, intuitive visualisations and ready-to-use insights allow teams to explore locations, compare markets and answer complex questions without requiring specialist data expertise.
How quickly can I get started?
Most organisations can begin exploring the platform shortly after onboarding. Our team works closely with every customer to configure the right datasets, demonstrate key workflows and ensure you can start making evidence-based location decisions as quickly as possible.
What geographies does huq cover?
huq provides extensive location intelligence across the UK and supports projects in international markets where data is available. Coverage varies by region, and our team can advise on the datasets and geographic availability relevant to your organisation's requirements.
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