ONS UPRN Directory: Great Britain Address to Geography Linkage for October 2024

October 2024 linkage of Unique Property Reference Numbers (UPRNs) for all Great Britain addresses to statutory administrative, electoral, health, and other statistical geographies. The 490 MB file is produced by ONS Geography and issued every 6 weeks to complement Ordnance Survey AddressBase®. It contains intellectual property from Royal Mail, Gridlink, Ordnance Survey, and ONS.

Use Cases

• Geocoding address-level data for spatial analysis based on the linkage to statistical geographies.
• Aggregating property-level information to administrative units for policy planning based on the statutory geography mapping.
• Validating and enriching address databases with official geographic codes based on the UPRN-to-geography relationships.
• Supporting electoral roll management and analysis based on the linkage to electoral geographies.

Strengths

• File size is 490 MB, indicating a substantial dataset.
• Produced by the authoritative ONS Geography team, providing official linkages.
• Updated every 6 weeks, suggesting a commitment to temporal accuracy.
• Covers all addresses in Great Britain, offering national completeness.

Limitations

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

Provenance

Source

Office for National Statistics (ONS) Geography, using Ordnance Survey AddressBase® Epoch 113.

Collection Method

Official linkage produced by ONS Geography.

Time Range

October 2024 snapshot.

Freshness

Updated every 6 weeks; snapshot is for October 2024.

Geography

Great Britain.