ONS UPRN Directory (October 2020)

669 MB of data linking Unique Property Reference Numbers (UPRNs) for every address in Great Britain to statutory administrative, electoral, health, and other statistical geographies as of October 2020. The ONS UPRN Directory is produced by ONS Geography and is designed to complement the Ordnance Survey AddressBase product. It is issued every 12 weeks by the Office for National Statistics.

Use Cases

• Geocode UK addresses to administrative boundaries based on the linked statutory geographies.
• Link property-level data to health or electoral statistics using the UPRN as a key.
• Perform spatial analysis of address distributions across different UK geographies.
• Enrich address databases with consistent geographic identifiers for data integration.

Strengths

• Covers every address in Great Britain via the UPRN system.
• Links addresses to a range of current statutory geographies, including administrative, electoral, and health.
• Produced by the authoritative ONS Geography team and updated every 12 weeks.
• File size of 669 MB suggests a substantial and detailed dataset.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data is from October 2020; freshness should be verified for current applications.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Office for National Statistics (ONS) Geography

Collection Method

Derived from Ordnance Survey AddressBase® Epoch 79 and linked to statutory geographies.

Time Range

October 2020

Freshness

Updated every 12 weeks; snapshot is from October 2020.

Geography

Great Britain