Like most people, my intuitive grasp of big numbers is not as good as it ought to be; so millions and billions don't always mean much. So it has always been my practice to take national figures and to apply them to the local authority I happened to be working in at the time; this gives me a feeling of some reality, and I commend it as a practice. Of course, it is pretty rough and ready, but it provides a starting point. So, for example, I always worked on the basis that Somerset was about 1.25 % of the national whole, and Dudley was about 0.8% of the national whole. (Statisticians - this is, I said, rough and ready!)
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