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National Statistics Postcode Lookup (May 2025) for the UK

Publisher
Office for National Statistics
Updated
11 August 2025
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Summary

This file contains the National Statistics Postcode Lookup (NSPL) for the United Kingdom as at May 2025 in Comma Separated Variable (CSV) and ASCII text (TXT) formats. To download the zip file click the Download button. The NSPL relates both current and terminated postcodes to a range of current statutory geographies via ‘best-fit’ allocation from the 2021 Census Output Areas (national parks and Workplace Zones are exempt from ‘best-fit’ and use ‘exact-fit’ allocations) for England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. It supports the production of area-based statistics from postcoded data. The NSPL is produced by ONS Geography, who provide geographic support to the Office for National Statistics (ONS) and geographic services used by other organisations. The NSPL is issued quarterly. (File size - 178 MB).
[17/06/2025] V2 corrects the conversion of latitude and longitude for Northern Ireland postcodes.

Data links

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ArcGIS Hub Dataset HTML 2/6/2025

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Additional information

Source Metadata
XML, HTML
Harvest GUID
https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=077631e063eb4e1ab43575d01381ec33

Contact

Enquiries

ons.geography@ons.gov.uk

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FOI.Team@ons.gov.uk