Isle of Man Open Data
The Isle of Man's Open Data Platform
30+ structured, machine-readable datasets covering the Isle of Man economy, environment, infrastructure, and society. Every dataset is available through a REST API, AI-powered MCP tools, bulk downloads, and interactive dashboards — all free, no API key required.
Built by Manx Technology Group as part of the Smart Island observatory. We scrape, parse, and structure data from government PDFs, CSV exports, web APIs, and scanned documents — then enrich it with AI analysis and make it available in a standard, programmatic format.
Why Isle of Man Open Data Matters
Transparency
Open data holds institutions accountable. When school enrolment trends, crime statistics, and government spending are publicly accessible, citizens can make informed decisions and participate meaningfully in democracy.
Innovation
Structured data enables developers, researchers, and AI tools to build applications that benefit everyone. Property market analysis, employment insights, and environmental monitoring all start with accessible data.
Better Decisions
Whether you're a policy maker planning school capacity, a business choosing where to invest, or a researcher studying demographic change — structured, up-to-date data leads to better outcomes than intuition alone.
The Open Data Challenge on the Isle of Man
The Isle of Man Government publishes data — but it's scattered across dozens of websites, buried in PDF reports, formatted as CSV files with inconsistent schemas, and in some cases only available as scanned images requiring OCR to extract.
Smart Island was built to solve this. We run 65+ automated pipelines that scrape, parse, and structure data from its original sources — whether that's a JSON API, a CSV export, a text-based PDF table, or a scanned document that needs AI-powered OCR extraction. The result is a unified, machine-readable platform where every dataset follows the same access pattern.
This isn't a criticism of government data publishing. The IoM Government has an active open data programme and publishes more than many jurisdictions its size. But government moves at government speed. The private sector can move faster, iterate more aggressively, and build the tooling that makes raw data genuinely useful — APIs, AI enrichment, cross-dataset analysis, and real-time dashboards.
How to Access Isle of Man Open Data
REST API
Interactive Scalar API docs. Query any dataset with filters, pagination, and full-text search. No authentication required.
MCP Tools
89+ AI-callable tools for Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, and any MCP-compatible agent. Connect at mcp.smartisland.im.
Bulk Downloads
JSON, ZIP, and GZ exports of every dataset. Download entire registries for offline analysis or your own applications.
Interactive Pages
66+ pages with charts, tables, AI commentary, and trend analysis. Every dataset has a dedicated dashboard.
Available Datasets
Every dataset below is available as structured JSON via API, MCP tools, and bulk downloads.
Jobs & Employment
600+Live vacancies with AI enrichment, automation risk, skills, SOC codes
Vehicle Fleet
76,000+Active registrations — make, model, fuel type, CO₂ emissions, EV trends
Property Market
43,000+25 years of land transactions with prices, parishes, and trends
Companies Registry
201,000+Every registered entity since 1865 — survival rates, incorporations
Schools & Education
22237 schools, 6 years of enrolment by year group, cohort forecasting
Population
65 yearsDemographics, dependency ratios, 50-year projections under 3 scenarios
Crime Statistics
12 years12 years of recorded crime, detection rates, per-capita comparisons
Aircraft Register
1,432Manx-registered aircraft — corporate jets, manufacturers, registrations
Ship Registry
2,500+Merchant ships, yachts, vessel types from the MAVIS registry
Biosphere & Wildlife
1.49M1.49M GBIF species occurrences — birds, mammals, marine life, plants
Financial Services
778IOMFSA regulated entities — banks, insurers, fund managers
Weather & Climate
65 yearsLive weather, 65 years of climate history, warming trend analysis
FOI Requests
1,100+Government transparency — searchable Freedom of Information archive
Broadband & Telecoms
QuarterlyCURA market statistics, Ookla speed tests, ISP league tables
World Bank Indicators
226226 economic indicators — GDP, trade, employment, life expectancy
Elections & Parliament
Multi-yearRegistered voters, turnout figures, Tynwald proceedings
From PDFs to APIs: How We Process Data
Collect
Scrape government websites, download PDF reports, pull CSV exports, and query web APIs.
Parse
Extract tables from text PDFs (PyMuPDF), run OCR on scanned documents, normalise CSV schemas.
Enrich
AI analysis adds context — automation risk, skills extraction, sentiment scoring, trend commentary.
Publish
Structured JSON via REST API, 89+ MCP tools for AI agents, bulk downloads, and interactive dashboards.
Licensing & Attribution
Government-sourced datasets are published under the IoM Open Government Licence. Community data from OpenStreetMap uses the Open Database License (ODbL). World Bank and OECD data is available under CC BY 4.0. AI enrichments (risk scores, skills extraction, narratives) are original Smart Island analysis.
All data is free for personal, research, and commercial use with attribution. See individual dataset pages for specific licensing details.