ONS Address Directory for the United Kingdom, January 2017

Office for National Statistics publishes the ONS Address Directory. The dataset likely contains a list of addresses across the United Kingdom. The data snapshot is from January 2017 and is licensed under OGL-UK-3.0.

Use Cases

• Geocoding and address validation based on the national address directory.
• Urban planning and demographic analysis based on address distribution.
• Data linkage and enrichment for other UK datasets using address as a key.

Strengths

• Published by the authoritative Office for National Statistics.
• Licensed under the permissive OGL-UK-3.0 license.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Data is from January 2017, which may limit its current applicability.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.

Provenance

Source

Office for National Statistics

Time Range

January 2017

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:30:20.332647; freshness should be verified.

Geography

United Kingdom