ONS UPRN Directory: Great Britain Address to Geography Linkage (July 2020)

466 MB file linking every Unique Property Reference Number (UPRN) for addresses in Great Britain to current administrative, electoral, health, and statistical geographies as of July 2020. The ONS UPRN Directory is produced by ONS Geography and is issued every 12 weeks to complement the Ordnance Survey AddressBase product.

Use Cases

• Link address-level data to administrative boundaries for policy analysis based on the statutory geographies mentioned.
• Enrich property records with electoral and health geography codes for demographic studies based on the UPRN-to-geography mapping.
• Perform spatial joins between address points and higher-level statistical units based on the relational structure described.

Strengths

• Covers all addresses in Great Britain via the UPRN system from AddressBase Epoch 77.
• Links addresses to a range of current statutory geographies, providing multi-domain utility.
• Produced by the official ONS Geography team, indicating authoritative sourcing.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data is from July 2020; freshness should be verified for current applications.

Provenance

Source

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

Collection Method

Produced by relating UPRNs from AddressBase to statutory geography codes.

Time Range

Snapshot as of July 2020.

Freshness

Issued every 12 weeks; this snapshot is from July 2020.

Geography

Great Britain.