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A lookup between postcodes and postcode sectors, postcode districts and postcode areas as at March 2021 in England and Wales (File size 5MB).
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Postcode area and district polygons derived from Ordnance Survey Open Data using R and GRASS. Method used was creating voronoi polygons from point postcode data and dissolving boundaries based on postcode area and district attributes.Contains OS data © Crown Copyright and database rightFile descriptions:postcode_polygons.gpkg: geopackage file containing two polygon layers: postcode_area and postcode_district.postcode_aggregator.R: R script to extract area and district from full postcode.postcode_aggregator.sh: GRASS/Bash script to convert point postcode data into polygons.postcode_overview.png: image of polygons available.
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This is the ONS Postcode Directory (ONSPD) for the United Kingdom as at February 2023 in Comma Separated Variable (CSV) and ASCII text (TXT) formats. This file contains the multi CSVs so that postcode areas can be opened in MS Excel. To download the zip file click the Download button. The ONSPD relates both current and terminated postcodes in the United Kingdom to a range of current statutory administrative, electoral, health and other area geographies. It also links postcodes to pre-2002 health areas, 1991 Census enumeration districts for England and Wales, 2001 Census Output Areas (OA) and Super Output Areas (SOA) for England and Wales, 2001 Census OAs and SOAs for Northern Ireland and 2001 Census OAs and Data Zones (DZ) for Scotland. It now contains 2021 Census OAs and SOAs for England and Wales. It helps support the production of area based statistics from postcoded data. The ONSPD is produced by ONS Geography, who provide geographic support to the Office for National Statistics (ONS) and geographic services used by other organisations. The ONSPD is issued quarterly. (File size - 234 MB)NOTE: The 2022 ONSPDs included an incorrect update of the ITL field with two LA changes in Northamptonshire. This error has been corrected from the February 2023 ONSPD.NOTE: There was an issue with the originally published file where some change orders yet to be included in OS Boundary-LineÔ (including The Cumbria (Structural Changes) Order 2022, The North Yorkshire (Structural Changes) Order 2022 and The Somerset (Structural Changes) Order 2022) were mistakenly implemented for terminated postcodes. Version 2 corrects this, so that ward codes E05014171–E05014393 are not yet included. Please note that this product contains Royal Mail, Gridlink, LPS (Northern Ireland), Ordnance Survey and ONS Intellectual Property Rights.
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Open Postcode Geo is a postcode dataset and API optimised for geocoding applications. You can use Open Postcode Geo to geocode a dataset, geocode user input, and therefore build a proximity search.
Data is derived from the ONS (Office for National Statistics) postcode database and is free to use, subject to including attributions to ONS, OS (Ordinance Survey) and Royal Mail.
Information is also provided on a range of topics, including education, health, crime, business, etc.
Postcodes can be entered at area, district, sector, and unit level - see Postcode map for the geographical relationship between these.
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This is the ONS Postcode Directory (ONSPD) for the United Kingdom as at November 2022 in Comma Separated Variable (CSV) and ASCII text (TXT) formats. This file contains the multi CSVs so that postcode areas can be opened in MS Excel. To download the zip file click the Download button. The ONSPD relates both current and terminated postcodes in the United Kingdom to a range of current statutory administrative, electoral, health and other area geographies. It also links postcodes to pre-2002 health areas, 1991 Census enumeration districts for England and Wales, 2001 Census Output Areas (OA) and Super Output Areas (SOA) for England and Wales, 2001 Census OAs and SOAs for Northern Ireland and 2001 Census OAs and Data Zones (DZ) for Scotland. It now contains 2021 Census OAs and SOAs for England and Wales. It helps support the production of area based statistics from postcoded data. The ONSPD is produced by ONS Geography, who provide geographic support to the Office for National Statistics (ONS) and geographic services used by other organisations. The ONSPD is issued quarterly. (File size - 234 MB)Please note that this product contains Royal Mail, Gridlink, LPS (Northern Ireland), Ordnance Survey and ONS Intellectual Property Rights.
OS Code-Point® Open is an OpenData postcode-level dataset providing a point location for all geographic postal codes in Great Britain. The gazetteer service allows geocoding and postcode searching against this dataset. It is ideal for a variety of uses including planning A to B journeys, performing analysis, managing assets (such as premises) or utilising postcode lookups. Attributes: Postcode units, eastings, northings, positional quality indicator, NHS® regional health authority code, NHS health authority code, country code, administrative county code, administrative district code and administrative ward code.Data Currency: February 2022
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A lookup between 2011 Census enumeration postcodes for England and Wales, and the parishes / communities, wards and local authority districts as at 31 December 2011. Enumeration postcodes are a sub-Output Area (OA) geography used only for the publication of estimates of males, females and households in the 2011 Census. The enumeration postcodes are defined as only those valid unit postcodes that were recorded during the 2011 Census as containing usually resident population. Postcodes have been assigned using a ‘point-in-polygon’ methodology that plots each postcode's mean address (centroid) into the areas of each of the parishes / communities, wards and local authority districts (LAD). In England there is not a full coverage of parishes, so the 2011 Census enumeration postcodes that do not fall into a parish will have no parish allocation. There are also 23 parishes (0.2%) that do not contain any enumeration postcode centroids. This occurs where a parish contains population, but the centroid of the postcode falls outside the parish. In these instances it is not possible to allocate a postcode to the parish.
The Access Network Map of England
is a national composite dataset of Access layers, showing analysis of extent of
Access provision for each Lower Super Output Area (LSOA), as a percentage or
area coverage of access in England. The ‘Access Network Map’ was developed by
Natural England to inform its work to improve opportunities for people to enjoy
the natural environment. This map shows, across England, the
relative abundance of accessible land in relation to where people
live. Due to issues explained below, the map does not, and cannot, provide
a definitive statement of where intervention is necessary. Rather,
it should be used to identify areas of interest which require further
exploration. Natural England believes that places where
people can enjoy the natural environment should be improved and created where
they are most wanted. Access Network Maps help support this work by
providing means to assess the amount of accessible land available in relation
to where people live. They combine all the available good quality data on
access provision into a single dataset and relate this to population.
This provides a common foundation for regional and national teams to use when
targeting resources to improve public access to greenspace, or projects that
rely on this resource. The Access Network Maps are compiled from the
datasets available to Natural England which contain robust, nationally
consistent data on land and routes that are normally available to the public
and are free of charge. Datasets contained in the aggregated
data:•
Agri-environment
scheme permissive access (routes and open access)•
CROW access land
(including registered common land and Section 16)•
Country Parks•
Cycleways (Sustrans
Routes) including Local/Regional/National and Link Routes•
Doorstep Greens•
Local Nature
Reserves•
Millennium Greens•
National Nature
Reserves (accessible sites only)•
National Trails•
Public Rights of
Way•
Forestry Commission
‘Woods for People’ data•
Village Greens –
point data only Due to the quantity and complexity of data
used, it is not possible to display clearly on a single map the precise
boundary of accessible land for all areas. We therefore selected a
unit which would be clearly visible at a variety of scales and calculated the
total area (in hectares) of accessible land in each. The units we
selected are ‘Lower Super Output Areas’ (LSOAs), which represent where
approximately 1,500 people live based on postcode. To calculate the
total area of accessible land for each we gave the linear routes a notional
width of 3 metres so they could be measured in hectares. We then
combined together all the datasets and calculated the total hectares of
accessible land in each LSOA. For further information about this data see the following links:Access Network Mapping GuidanceAccess Network Mapping Metadata Full metadata can be viewed on data.gov.uk.
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Introduction This dataset provides information on where UK Power Networks requires flexibility services. The dataset provides a mapping of postcodes to Flexibility Zones – for all existing and historic day-ahead and long-term flexibility requirements. This enables potential flexibility service providers to quickly understand their eligibility for revenue from flexibility, without sharing any sensitive personal or commercial information. This dataset provides an approximation of eligibility for our flexibility tenders. Please note that even if your asset is within a postcode listed in this dataset, as part of the flexibility procurement process we will need to validate that the individual meter point (MPAN) is electrically connected to the Flexibility Zone. Methodological Approach Postcodes are listed against a Flexibility Zone where at least one meter point within that postcode is electrically connected to the constrained network asset. For large Flexibility Zones, which cover multiple postcodes, this will be a very good indication of eligibility for flexibility services. For smaller Flexibility Zones, particularly those at Low Voltage, a significant proportion of properties within a listed postcode may ultimately not be eligible. As part of our flexibility procurement process, we will check the individual meter point (MPAN) to confirm its final eligibility. This dataset offers an approximation of eligibility, without requiring any sharing of household or business level data. Quality Control Statement Dispatches are passed through a quality control algorithm to flag anomalies and erroneous data. Quality control checks include: Checking the formatting of postcodes Checking the number of postcodes mapped to each Flexibility Zone Checking that Flexibility Zone names align with those in other datasets on the Open Data Portal and on UK Power Networks’ chosen flexibility market platform: www.localflex.co.uk Assurance Statement The Flex Zone to Postcode mapping is reviewed before publication by a member of Flexibility Markets team.
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Definitions of key terms related to this dataset can be found in the Open Data Portal Glossary: https://ukpowernetworks.opendatasoft.com/pages/glossary/
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The Historic Flood Map is a GIS layer showing the maximum extent of individual Recorded Flood Outlines from river, the sea and groundwater springs that meet a set criteria. It shows areas of land that have previously been subject to flooding in England. This excludes flooding from surface water, except in areas where it is impossible to determine whether the source is fluvial or surface water but the dominant source is fluvial.
The majority of records began in 1946 when predecessor bodies to the Environment Agency started collecting detailed information about flooding incidents, although we hold limited details about flooding incidents prior to this date.
If an area is not covered by the Historic Flood Map it does not mean that the area has never flooded, only that we do not currently have records of flooding in this area that meet the criteria for inclusion. It is also possible that the pattern of flooding in this area has changed and that this area would now flood or not flood under different circumstances. Outlines that don’t meet this criteria are stored in the Recorded Flood Outlines dataset.
The Historic Flood Map takes into account the presence of defences, structures, and other infrastructure where they existed at the time of flooding. It will include flood extents that may have been affected by overtopping, breaches or blockages.
Flooding is shown to the land and does not necessarily indicate that properties were flooded internally.
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A best-fit lookup between postcodes, 2021 Census Output Areas (OA), Lower Layer Super Output Areas (LSOA), Middle Layer Super Output Areas (MSOA) and local authority districts (LAD). Postcodes are as at May 2024 in the UK and are best-fitted by plotting the location of the postcode's mean address into the areas of the output geographies. (File size 22 MB). Field Names - PCD7, PCD8, PCDS, DOINTR, DOTERM, USERTYPE, OA21CD, LSOA21CD, MSOA21CD, LADCD, LSOA21NM, MSOA21NM, LADNM, LADNMW Field Types - All Text Field Lengths - 7, 8, 8, 8, 8, 1, 9, 9, 9, 9, 55, 65, 45, 45
The Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) closed on 31 March 2025. All activity has moved to the Department for Education (DfE). You should continue to follow this guidance.
You might find these adult skills fund (ASF) data files showing the funding bodies that are responsible for funding each postcode in England useful.
We use this data in funding calculations to support publicly funded education and skills in England; covering 16 to 19 study programmes, adult education budget (AEB), level 3 free courses for jobs (FCFJ), apprenticeships, the European Social Fund and advanced learner loans bursary. This includes devolved AEB and level 3 FCFJ qualifications funded by mayoral combined authorities or the Greater London Authority.
To support the devolution of AEB, we have produced postcode files to show which postcodes are within the devolved areas, and consequently which body is responsible for AEB learners resident in a given postcode.
For funded learners aged 16 to 19, we apply the most recent single funding year’s factors to all learners in that funding year, regardless of their start date.
For adult-funded aims and apprenticeship frameworks, we changed our calculations in the 2016 to 2017 year to apply the factor or cash value in our calculations based on the date when the learner started the aim or programme. For example, for learners who started adult-funded aims or apprenticeship frameworks from 1 August 2017 to 31 July 2018, we used the values from the 2017 to 2018 tables in the funding calculations for 2018 to 2019 and then in subsequent years.
The area cost uplift reflects the higher cost of delivering provision in some parts of the country, such as London and the south east.
These are uplifts or amounts for learners living in the most disadvantaged areas of the country.
Historically we have used various versions of the Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD) to determine disadvantage factors and uplifts.
The IMD is assigned based on lower layer super output areas (LSOAs). LSOAs are a set of geographical areas developed, following the 2001 census, with the aim of defining areas of consistent size whose boundaries would not change between censuses.
Therefore, we initially set disadvantage factors at LSOA level, and then apply the factors to postcodes within each LSOA. We publish disadvantage information on this page at LSOA level and also at postcode level.
For the year 2021 to 2022 onwards, we use the 2019 IMD for provision funded by Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA). This used the LSOA mapping from the 2011 census.
For the year 2016 to 2017 up to and including the year 2020 to 2021, we used the 2015 IMD. This used the LSOA mapping from the 2011 census.
Up to the funding year 2015 to 2016, we used the 2010 IMD which used the LSOAs from the 2001 census as its underlying mapping.
Mayoral combined authorities and the Greater London Authority may wish to
The maps below show the population of the UK in 2022, at country, region, county and postcode sector level. The maps also provide information about the relative wealth, education and employment of people living in different areas.This map shows different countries of the UK.
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This method provides statistics on relative deprivation in England, Wales, and Scotland, including:
The indices assess deprivation at a small-area level:
Each area is ranked from most to least deprived:
The ranks are available in the imdRank
field, with domain-specific ranks in fields such as incomeRank
, employmentRank
, crimeRank
, etc.
To simplify, areas are also categorized into deciles (1 = most deprived, 10 = least deprived), available in fields like imdDecile
, incomeDecile
, employmentDecile
, etc.
We use deciles to color-code our deprivation map. However, on our consumer platform, we reversed the ratings scale to match user expectations where higher ratings are associated with higher deprivation.
For example, postcode W6 0LJ (imdDecile 2, a highly deprived area) is displayed as “_Index of Multiple Deprivation - 9/10 or high_” on the consumer platform.
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PLEASE NOTE: This record has been retired. It has been superseded by: https://environment.data.gov.uk/dataset/f81508d3-cf5a-44ed-ae7e-452be665af84 This dataset is a product of a national assessment of flood risk for England produced using local expertise. It is produced using the Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea data which shows the chance of flooding from rivers and/or the sea, based on cells of 50m. Each cell is allocated one of four flood risk categories, taking into account flood defences and their condition.
This dataset uses OS address data and Royal Mail postcode data to show how many properties are in each of four flood risk categories in each postcode, based simply on the category allocated to the cell that each property is in.
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This file contains the National Statistics Postcode Lookup (NSPL) for the United Kingdom as at August 2022 in Comma Separated Variable (CSV) and ASCII text (TXT) formats. To download the zip file click the Download button. The NSPL relates both current and terminated postcodes to a range of current statutory geographies via ‘best-fit’ allocation from the 2021 Census Output Areas (national parks and Workplace Zones are exempt from ‘best-fit’ and use ‘exact-fit’ allocations) for England and Wales. Scotland and Northern Ireland has the 2011 Census Output AreasIt supports the production of area based statistics from postcoded data. The NSPL is produced by ONS Geography, who provide geographic support to the Office for National Statistics (ONS) and geographic services used by other organisations. The NSPL is issued quarterly. (File size - 184 MB).
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The property subsidence assessment dataset provides an understanding of the shrink-swell hazard at both the individual property and/or postcode level for England and Wales. It builds upon the BGS GeoSure shrink-swell data by mapping the hazard to the individual building polygon and considering the other susceptibility factors of building type, foundation depth, and drainage and tree proximity. The data consist of GIS building polygons with an overall susceptibility to subsidence score between 1-100. Scores are also classified from non-plastic to very high. Each building polygon is also scored from 1-10 for each subsidence factor (geology, foundation, drainage, building type, building storey and tree proximity). Postcode data is also available as a table showing the ‘average’ PSA score for all buildings within the postcode. The identification of shrink-swell related subsidence prone areas, alongside the inclusion of potential sources to exacerbate these phenomena, can better inform insurers and homeowners and form the basis to make decisions concerning prevention and remediation. The product enhances geological information obtained from GIP (BGS GeoSure Insurance Product) and GeoSure via the inclusion of the crucial shrink-swell susceptibility factors (proximity to trees and foundation depth). This therefore allows the derivation of a risk element for the housing stock at Building level, which is then generalised to Postcode level. BGS GeoSure - a series of GIS digital maps identifying areas of potential natural ground movement hazard in Great Britain
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This is the data associated with the paper submitted entitled:
A Novel Approach for Mapping Exposure to Land Cover at the Small Statistical Geography Level
Joanne K. Garrett1, Lewis R. Elliott1, Rebecca Lovell1, Benedict W. Wheeler1, Tom Marshall2, Fränze Kibowski2, Benjamin B. Philips3, Kevin J. Gaston3
This dataset includes the Living England percentage land cover at the LSOA level calculated by two methods. These methods are referred to as the "proposed" method and the "typical" method. Our proposed method uses data at both LSOA and postcode (sub-LSOA) levels for England, first calculating the percentage coverage of land cover types within 300 m postcode buffers, then averaging these at the LSOA level weighted by the number of domestic postal delivery addresses (as a proxy for population per postcode). It mitigates edge effects by allowing habitat exposure to extend beyond the LSOA boundary through the use of a 300-metre postcode buffer and maintains consistency across varying LSOA sizes. We argue that the new proposed approach reduces the potential for exposure misclassification associated with variable unit size at the small statistical geography level.
The variables are described in the included file data_variable_descriptions.xlsx
The code is available on Github at github.com/j-k-garrett/RENEW_mapping.
LSOAs were obtained for the year 2011 [1]. Postcode locations were obtained from the UK’s Ordnance Survey dataset of postcode locations (Codepoint; [2]), which is accessible through the Edina Digimap service for UK educational and research institutions. The Living England Habitat Map is a probability-based map showing the extent and distribution of broad habitats across England [3]. Estuaries and rias were obtained from the Coastal Physiographic features product from JNCC [4.5]. Boundary data for Scotland and Wales were obtained from the Ordnance Survey dataset Boundary-Line [6].
The study was funded by the Natural Environment Research Council ‘Renewing biodiversity through a people-in-nature approach (RENEW)’ project (NE/W004941/1)
References
[1] Office for National Statistics: Lower Layer Super Output Areas (December 2011) Boundaries Full Clipped (BFC) EW V3. https://geoportal.statistics.gov.uk/datasets/1f23484eafea45f98485ef816e4fee2d_0/explore; 2021.
[2] Ordnance Survey: Code-Point. August 2021. EDINA Digimap Ordnance Survey Service; 2021.
[3] Kilcoyne A, Clement M, Moore C, Picton Phillipps G, Keane R, Woodget A, Potter S, Stefaniak A, Trippier B: Living England: Technical User Guide. NERR108. http://nepubprod.appspot.com/publication/4918342350798848; 2022: 38.
[4] Joint Nature Conservation Committee: Coastal Physiographic Features - Estuaries. https://www.data.gov.uk/dataset/225fb0e1-5cfd-43fa-a6bf-c108091f3825/coastal-physiographic-features-estuaries; 2018.
[5] Joint Nature Conservation Committee: Coastal Physiographic Features - Ria https://www.data.gov.uk/dataset/71bb8571-6214-45ba-8f14-a9b8d014b90c/coastal-physiographic-features-ria; 2018.
[6] Ordnance survey: Boundary-Line, Scotland and Wales region. 23rd April 2022 edn. https://digimap.edina.ac.uk/os: EDINA Digimap Ordnance Survey Service; 2022.
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Introduction This dataset is a geospatial view of the areas fed by primary substations. The aim is to create an indicative map showing the extent to which individual primary substations feed areas based on MPAN data.
Methodological Approach
Data Extraction: MPAN data is downloaded from the geographical system. The system searches with a geographical window and assigns it to the nearest supply point.
Connectivity. Data is taken from the connectivity model and mapped to the relevant MPAN.
Data Filtering: Any coordinates that are more than 500m from the nearest secondary site are removed.
Primary Assignment: Postcodes of the MPANs are assigned to a primary substation based on the number of MPANs fed.
Polygon Creation: Primary Feed Polygons are created and cleaned up to remove holes and inclusions.
Hierarchy Construction: Grid Supply Point polygons are produced from schematics and merged based on hierarchical relationships.
FLOC Matching: Functional Location Codes (FLOC) are matched to the respective sites.
Quality Control Statement
Quality control measures include:
Verification steps to match features only with confirmed FLOCs.
Manual review and correction of data inconsistencies.
Use of additional verification steps to ensure accuracy in the methodology.
Regular updates and reviews documented in the version history.
Assurance Statement
The Open Data team, worked with the Geospatial Data Engineering team ensure data accuracy and consistency.
Other
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This User Guide contains information about the NHSPD including: directory content; data currency; the methodology for assigning areas to postcodes; data formats; data quality and limitations and details of recent changes that have impacted on the data. Various annexes and tables provide more detailed supporting information. The download includes PDF and ODT versions of the user guide. (File size - 652 KB)
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A lookup between postcodes and postcode sectors, postcode districts and postcode areas as at March 2021 in England and Wales (File size 5MB).