ONS UPRN Directory: Great Britain Address to Geography Linkage (June 2024)

Great Britain's address database linking each Unique Property Reference Number (UPRN) from Ordnance Survey AddressBase to statutory administrative, electoral, health, and other statistical geographies as of June 2024. The directory is produced by ONS Geography and is updated every six weeks, complementing the core AddressBase product. The downloadable file is 499 MB in size.

Use Cases

• Geocode addresses for public service delivery based on the linkage to administrative and health geographies.
• Analyze electoral boundaries and voter registration based on the connection to electoral geographies.
• Conduct spatial statistics and reporting based on the mapping to various statistical geographies.
• Integrate and validate address data in systems based on the authoritative UPRN-to-geography relationships.

Strengths

• File size is 499 MB, indicating a substantial dataset.
• Produced by ONS Geography, an authoritative source for UK geographic data.
• Updated every six weeks, suggesting a commitment to regular maintenance.
• Links addresses to a range of current statutory geographies for comprehensive coverage.

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 projects.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality and completeness require manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

Office for National Statistics (ONS) Geography.

Collection Method

Derived from Ordnance Survey AddressBase® Epoch 110.

Time Range

Snapshot as of June 2024.

Freshness

Updated every six weeks; snapshot is from June 2024.

Geography

Great Britain.