ONS UPRN Directory: Great Britain Address to Geography Links, February 2023

491 MB of data linking every Unique Property Reference Number (UPRN) in Great Britain to statutory administrative, electoral, health, and other geographies. The ONS UPRN Directory is produced by ONS Geography and updated every six weeks to complement the Ordnance Survey AddressBase product. This snapshot is from February 2023.

Use Cases

• Link individual addresses to administrative boundaries for policy analysis based on the statutory geographies mentioned.
• Enrich address data with health service geographies for public health research based on the described linkages.
• Support electoral roll management and constituency analysis using the electoral geography mappings.
• Perform spatial joins for demographic studies by relating property locations to statistical output areas.

Strengths

• Covers every address in Great Britain via the Unique Property Reference Number (UPRN) system.
• Links addresses to a wide range of current statutory geographies, including administrative, electoral, and health boundaries.
• Produced and maintained by ONS Geography, the official geographic support unit for the UK's national statistics office.
• Updated on a regular six-week cycle, suggesting ongoing maintenance.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The data snapshot is from February 2023; freshness should be verified for current applications.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality and structure require manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

Office for National Statistics (ONS) Geography

Collection Method

Derived from Ordnance Survey AddressBase® Epoch 99 and linked to statutory geography codes.

Time Range

Snapshot as of February 2023

Freshness

Updated every 6 weeks; snapshot date is February 2023.

Geography

Great Britain