ONS UPRN Directory (February 2025) (Epoch 116)

Great Britain's address points are linked to administrative and statistical geographies via Unique Property Reference Numbers (UPRNs) as of February 2025. The dataset is produced by ONS Geography and updated every six weeks to complement Ordnance Survey AddressBase. It contains intellectual property from Royal Mail, Gridlink, Ordnance Survey, and the Office for National Statistics.

Use Cases

• Link address-level data to higher-level administrative units for aggregation based on the described geography linkages.
• Perform address validation and standardization using the authoritative UPRN reference system mentioned.
• Enrich property records with electoral, health, or other statistical boundary data based on the linked geographies.
• Support spatial joins between address points and various administrative boundaries for mapping and analysis.

Strengths

• Links each address to a range of current statutory geographies, providing multi-domain administrative context.
• Produced by ONS Geography, an authoritative source for geographic support to the UK's national statistics office.
• Updated on a regular six-week cycle, suggesting ongoing maintenance and temporal relevance.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale processing.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality and structure require manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

Office for National Statistics (ONS) Geography, using Ordnance Survey AddressBase® Epoch 116.

Collection Method

Likely produced by relating UPRNs from AddressBase to current administrative geography codes.

Time Range

Snapshot as of February 2025.

Freshness

Last updated 2025-08-11 08:24:33; data snapshot is from February 2025.

Geography

Great Britain.