This is the ONS Postcode Directory (ONSPD) for the United Kingdom as at February 2024 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, Wales and Northern Ireland. 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 - 231 MB) Please note that this product contains Royal Mail, Gridlink, LPS (Northern Ireland), Ordnance Survey and ONS Intellectual Property Rights.

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.

A best-fit lookup between postcodes, frozen 2011 Census Output Areas (OA), Lower Layer Super Output Areas (LSOA), Middle Layer Super Output Areas (MSOA) and current local authority districts (LAD) as at May 2022 in the UK. Postcodes are best-fitted by plotting the location of the postcode's mean address into the areas of the output geographies. (File size 24 MB).Field Names - PCD7, PCD8, PCDS, DOINTR, DOTERM, USERTYPE, OA11CD, LSOA11CD, MSOA11CD, LADCD, LSOA11NM, MSOA11NM, LADNM, LADNMWField Types - All TextField Lengths - 7, 8, 8, 8, 8, 1, 9, 9, 9, 9, 55, 65, 45, 45

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The 2018 Local Authority Health Profiles have been published.

The Local Authority Health Profiles pull together existing information in one place and contain data on a range of health and wellbeing indicators for local populations. They are intended as ‘conversation starters’ to highlight local issues and priorities for members, and for discussion at Health and Wellbeing Boards.

To find your local 2018 Local Authority Health Profile:

• visit the http://fingertips.phe.org.uk/profile/health-profiles">Health Profiles introduction webpage
• insert a postcode, town or local authority in the ‘Find your Health Profile’ search box, located in the top left of the http://fingertips.phe.org.uk/profile/health-profiles">Health Profiles introduction webpage

Data for all indicators in the 2018 Local Authority Health Profiles have been previously published in the Health Profiles online tool and are also available:

View the http://fingertips.phe.org.uk/profile/health-profiles">Health Profiles online tool.

A best-fit lookup between postcodes, frozen 2011 Census Output Areas (OA), Workplace Zones (WZ), Lower Layer Super Output Areas (LSOA), Middle Layer Super Output Areas (MSOA) and current local authority districts (LAD) along with OA, WZ, and LAD classifications as at May 2020 in the UK. Postcodes are best-fitted by plotting the location of the postcode's mean address into the areas of the output geographies. One file per Postcode Area (File size 45MB).

The 2019 Local Authority Health Profiles have been published.

The Local Authority Health Profiles pull together existing information in one place and contain data on a range of health and wellbeing indicators for local populations. They are intended as ‘conversation starters’ to highlight local issues and priorities for members, and for discussion at Health and Wellbeing Boards.

To find your local 2019 Local Authority Health Profile:

• visit the http://fingertips.phe.org.uk/profile/health-profiles">Local Authority Health Profiles homepage and insert a postcode, town or local authority in the ‘Find your Health Profile’ search box
• alternatively click on the ‘Downloads’ section of the online tool which can be accessed by clicking ‘Start Go to the data’ on the health profiles homepage

This data set contains Help to Buy: Equity Loan statistics at postcode district level. The figures cover the launch of the scheme on 1 April 2013 until 31 October 2014. Information on the allocation of completed sales to postcode districts is derived using the latest available information on the full postcode for each scheme. Figures have been attributed to an individual postcode sector by reconciling data against the ONS Postcode Directory (May 2014) where possible. Figures may be subject to revision later in the year. For sales before 31 March 2014, properties are included under the local authority district to which they were initially allocated. In some cases, this differs from latest information, which forms the basis of the first column of local authority district figures. Figures for some local authorities may be subject to revisions later in the year. Although local authority information is validated against other geographic data at the time of data entry, detailed reconciliation of the data, conducted twice a year, may result in a small number of changes to these monthly releases, for example where a new development crosses a local authority boundary. An equity loan is Government financial assistance given to eligible applicants to purchase an eligible home through a Government equity mortgage secured on the home. The Government equity mortgage is ranked second in priority behind an owner’s main mortgage lender. This scheme offers up to 20 per cent of the value as Government assistance to purchasers buying a new build home. The buyer must provide a cash deposit of at least 5 per cent and a main mortgage lender must provide a loan of at least 75 per cent. The Government assistance to buy is made through an equity loan made by the Homes and Communities Agency (HCA) to the purchaser. Help to Buy equity loans are only available on new build homes and the maximum purchase price is £600,000. Equity loan assistance for purchasers is paid via house builders registered with the HCA to participate in the Help to Buy equity loan initiative. The payment is made to builders (via solicitors) at purchaser legal completion. The equity loan is provided without fees for the first five years of ownership. The property title is held by the home owner who can therefore sell their home at any time and upon sale should provide the government the value of the same equity share of the property when it is sold. For further information see Help to Buy (equity loan) scheme monthly statistics.

This file contains the National Statistics Postcode Lookup (NSPL) for the United Kingdom as at May 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 2011 Census Output Areas (national parks and Workplace Zones are exempt from ‘best-fit’ and use ‘exact-fit’ allocations). It 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 - 196 MB).

A best-fit lookup between postcodes, frozen 2011 Census Output Areas (OA), Lower Layer Super Output Areas (LSOA), Middle Layer Super Output Areas (MSOA) and current local authority districts (LAD) as at August 2021 in the UK. Postcodes are best-fitted by plotting the location of the postcode's mean address into the areas of the output geographies. (File size 24 MB).Field Names - PCD7, PCD8, PCDS, DOINTR, DOTERM, USERTYPE, OA11CD, LSOA11CD, MSOA11CD, LADCD, LSOA11NM, MSOA11NM, LADNM, LADNMWField Types - All TextField Lengths - 7, 8, 8, 8, 8, 1, 9, 9, 9, 9, 55, 65, 45, 45

This data set contains Help to Buy: Equity Loan statistics at postcode district level. For data released from 5 March 2015 onwards, the Homes and Community Agency (HCA) have revised the completion date for the entire Help to Buy Equity Loan time series. The HCA have stopped counting payment date (when the money out is paid out by the HCA) and now report on the expected actual completion date. It is more accurate and is closer to the live situation, especially when HCA now recognise an asset based on a completion, rather than exchange and approved claim. As a result (and due to reinstating accounts) HCA have seen movement of actual completions dates. There should not be this level of difference moving forward, it was a one off activity. The figures cover the launch of the scheme on 1 April 2013 until 30 September 2016. Figures have been attributed to an individual constituency by reconciling data against the ONS Postcode Directory (May 2014) where possible. Figures for some constituencies may be subject to revision later in the year. For sales before 31 March 2014, properties are included under the local authority district to which they were initially allocated. In some cases, this differs from latest information, which forms the basis of the first column of local authority district figures. Figures for some local authorities may be subject to revisions later in the year. Although local authority information is validated against other geographic data at the time of data entry, detailed reconciliation of the data, conducted twice a year, may result in a small number of changes to these monthly releases, for example where a new development crosses a local authority boundary. An equity loan is Government financial assistance given to eligible applicants to purchase an eligible home through a Government equity mortgage secured on the home. The Government equity mortgage is ranked second in priority behind an owner’s main mortgage lender. This scheme offers up to 20 per cent of the value as Government assistance to purchasers buying a new build home. The buyer must provide a cash deposit of at least 5 per cent and a main mortgage lender must provide a loan of at least 75 per cent. The Government assistance to buy is made through an equity loan made by the Homes and Communities Agency (HCA) to the purchaser. Help to Buy equity loans are only available on new build homes and the maximum purchase price is £600,000. Equity loan assistance for purchasers is paid via house builders registered with the HCA to participate in the Help to Buy equity loan initiative. The payment is made to builders (via solicitors) at purchaser legal completion. The equity loan is provided without fees for the first five years of ownership. The property title is held by the home owner who can therefore sell their home at any time and upon sale should provide the government the value of the same equity share of the property when it is sold. For further information see Help to Buy (equity loan) scheme monthly statistics.

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UK Postcode-level Flood Risk Data (Rivers and Sea)

Identifying Risk Areas for Flood Protection and Planning

By IBM Watson AI XPRIZE - Environment [source]

About this dataset

Welcome to the UK Postcode-level Flood Risk Dataset. This open source dataset contains detailed information on flood risk levels by postcode in the UK, allowing you to map out potential problems and plan accordingly. With this dataset, you can assess each postcode's growing risk of floods due to human land use change and climate change-related weather patterns, as well as historical occurrences specific to each area.

We pull data from organizations including Risk of Flooding from Rivers & Sea, Open Postcode Geo, Royal Mail copyright & database right (2017), National Statistics data Crown copyright & database right (2017), and Environment Agency data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. The associated columns in this dataset are detailed below:

• Postcode - unique identifier for the postal code district where flood risk area is located
• FID - Unique ID for each location point
• PROB 4BAND - Flood risk level for a given postcode determined according to a four tier grade system (High, Medium, Low or Very Low)
• SUITABILITY - Suitability of location based on environment factors assessed according to OFRA criteria
• PUB_DATE - Date when data was published or last updated
• RISK FOR INSURANCE SOP - Standard Operating Procedure assigned according the Probability 4 band Risk rating
• Easting/Northing/Latitude/Longitude – Coordinates associated with a given postcode location

This data can be used by local authorities and agencies conducting flood mapping projects; insurers assessing assets at specified locations using an agreed set of methodology; advisors assessing locations for development purposes; forecasters aiding contingency planning; homeowners/commercial businesses seeking insurance cover for claims arising from flooding events etc. Ultimately we hope citizens around the world use this dataset as an important tool to predict areas exposedto potential flooding risks so that preventive measures may be taken beforehand!

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This Kaggle dataset provides postcode-level flood risk data for the UK, including the flood risk level, coordinates, and other related information. This dataset is derived from Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea (provided by the British government) and Open Postcode Geo. It is licensed under the OGL 3.0 open government license.

In this data set you will find columns for each postcode as well as unique identifiers for a particular region (FID), an overall four band flood risk level (PROB_4BAND), whether a specific location or building is suitable or not (SUITABILITY), when it was published so you can be sure you are getting reliable up to date information (PUB_DATE), Easting/Northing which roughly measure distance eastwards/northwards of locations in meters(EASTING / NORTHING), LATITUDE & LONGITUDE that point to a precise location on google map & finally RISK_FOR_INSURANCE SOP which clearly distinguishes between sites which should generate warnings with regard to various kinds of insurance policies. This allows companies applying digital transformation solutions like hazard mapping solutions to show what risks certain locations present in relation to possible flood damage using digital technologies such as GIS systems or location intelligence tools etc., allowing organizations apply data science models or techniques like predictive analytics that may be used in decision making processes such as those taken by municipalities when signing off disaster management plans etc..

You can use this dataset for research purposes, share your findings on websites through charts & graphs to develop an educational understanding about possible hazards associated with areas that people inhabit around UK particularly at times when storm systems are localized heavily over specific regions making it most likely due causing major catastrophic event across British Isles . People living there can always access their respective postcodes very easily via our Flood Map by Postcode page here Flood Map.

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This is a lookup file between electoral wards/divisions and local authority districts in the United Kingdom as at 2nd May 2024. (File Size - 1.4 MB) Field Names - WD24CD, WD24NM, WD24NMW LAD24CD, LAD24NM, LAD24NMWField Types - Text, Text, Text, Text, Text, TextField Lengths - 9, 53, 45 9, 36, 24

A best-fit lookup between postcodes, frozen 2011 Census Output Areas (OA), Lower Layer Super Output Areas (LSOA), Middle Layer Super Output Areas (MSOA) and current local authority districts (LAD) as at August 2021 in the UK. Postcodes are best-fitted by plotting the location of the postcode's mean address into the areas of the output geographies. (File size 24 MB).Field Names - PCD7, PCD8, PCDS, DOINTR, DOTERM, USERTYPE, OA11CD, LSOA11CD, MSOA11CD, LADCD, LSOA11NM, MSOA11NM, LADNM, LADNMW

This dataset contains the administrative boundary for each Local Planning Authority (LPA) in England. It can be used to: assist in the production planning and other statistics help find the LPA responsible for a planning application on a map, for example

A best-fit lookup between enumeration postcodes, Output Areas (OA), Lower Layer Super Output Areas (LSOA), Middle Layer Super Output Areas (MSOA) and local authority districts (LAD) as at 31 December 2011 in England and Wales. Postcodes are best-fitted by plotting the location of the postcode's mean address into the areas of the output geographies. Enumeration postcodes are a sub-OA geography used only for the publication of estimates of males, females and households in the 2011 Census. The 2011 Census enumeration postcodes consist only of valid unit postcodes as at May 2011.

September 2017 OS Code-Point Open for Greater London and London boroughs are downloadable via the links below.

OS Code-Point Open provides a National Grid coodinate for a point within each postcode unit (e.g. SE1 2AA) in Great Britain.There are approximately 1.6 million postcode units in the UK and each contains an average of 15 adjoining addresses. It also contains a number of columns of attributes which provide information about each postcode unit, including local authority area codes down to ward level and National Health Service.

The geographic extent of the Code-Point dataset below has been limited to the Greater London area as well as extracts for the City of London and the 32 London boroughs individually. In addition to conventional CSV file format, the dataset is also available as ESRI shapefile format (.shp) for ease of use with Geographical Information Systems (GIS) for visualisation and further analysis.

Key attributes: postcode unit, easting, northing, NHS health authority code and administrative codes

Coverage: Greater London and 33 individual London borough.

Format: Comma separated values (.csv) & Esri shapefile (.shp)

External link: https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/business-and-government/products/code-point-open.html