Postcodes for the
United Kingdom
Postcodes, or zipcodes, are an important tool for geographic planning in the United Kingdom. Originally developed to streamline postal delivery, postcodes are now commonly referred to as “the new geography”. They have evolved to become an integral part of the business planning process.
Postcodes for the United Kingdom
Postcodes are a simple but convenient way to locate customers, assets, competitors – in fact, anything with an address. Enriching your address data with coordinates is a process known as geocoding and is the first step in adding location intelligence to your data assets located in the United Kingdom.
Postcode centroids (centre points) are suitable for coarse-level searches and geocoding, while postcode regions (polygons) can be highly effective for visualisation purposes.
We provide Postcode Sectors for the United Kingdom, as both centroids and regions, with seamless transitions across borders with neighbouring countries. The data is available in all common GIS data formats.
United Kingdom Postcodes
United Kingdom Postcode Products
OS Code-Point products
OS Code-Point products precisely locate 1.7 million postcode units in Great Britain and Northern Ireland, either as points or polygons. Ideal for direct marketers, Code-Point Products help you maximise your response rates by targeting customers in the best postcodes for your offering.
AddressHub
AddressHub is an address product for Great Britain built upon definitive Royal Mail Postcode Address File (PAF®) data, enhanced with UPRN (Unique Property Reference Number), coordinates and other valuable attributes. Designed to deliver a cost-effective addressing capability to organisations of any size, AddressHub opens the door to connect databases from multiple sources. Search, locate and identify addresses with ease and precision.
OS AddressBase products
Identify opportunities, monitor trends, manage risk and deliver better customer service with this essential address-level location intelligence for business and government. OS AddressBase is a tiered product family with coverage of Great Britain and beyond.
OSNI Pointer
Pointer is the address database for Northern Ireland and the standard address for every property. Land & Property Services (LPS) maintains the database with help from local councils and Royal Mail.
Royal Mail PAF®
The Royal Mail PAF is widely recognised as the UK’s most up-to-date and complete address database. It contains over 30 million business and residential addresses, and 1.8 million postcodes, which are verified each day by Royal Mail’s 65,000 postmen and women.
Data Formats & Delivery
Postcodes/Zipcodes map data is available in the following popular GIS formats:
- Esri Shapefile
- Esri File GeoDatabase
- MapInfo TAB (Extended)
All data products are delivered using our secure data delivery platform, Europa Data Vault.
Related products for the United Kingdom
Extend your market insight into the United Kingdom with these compatible add-on products. Ask about special pricing for map data bundles.
Free data life support
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How can we help you?
Do get in touch if you would like more details about UK Postcodes (technical, licensing, pricing, etc.) or would like to arrange a personalised demo. Our product specialists will be happy to provide you with a free consultation.
