Data story: Where are the police stations, courts and public offices, and who has none nearby?
67 of 146 districts in Uganda have no police station on the map
OpenStreetMap shows 447 police stations, 40 courts, 8 NIRA offices and 853 markets in Uganda. That is one mapped police station for every 102,697 people. The map is incomplete, so the gaps show where to look, and where volunteers can help map.
- Police stations: 447 (102,697 people each)
- Courts: 40 (mapped)
- NIRA offices: 8 (mapped)
- No police on map: 67 (districts and cities)
What comes next: Same stations, more people
If no stations are added, each mapped police station in Uganda would serve about 137,867 people in 2034, up from 102,697 today.
How this was worked out: Trend projection by Pearl Insights, not an official UBOS projection: the average annual growth rate between the August 2014 and May 2024 censuses is carried forward unchanged. The range shows the same rate 0.5 percentage points lower and higher. Real growth will differ as birth rates, migration and refugee arrivals change. Counts are OpenStreetMap features exported by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team; they show what is mapped, not everything that exists.
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Source: Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS), National Population and Housing Census 2024 (final results, drill-down tables). Published on Pearl Insights (https://pearl-insights.org), an independent civic data platform, not an official government website.