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National Statistics Postcode Lookup - 2021 Census (May 2024) 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 2024 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 and Northern Ireland. Scotland has the 2011 Census Output Areas

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 - 195 MB).

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Additional information

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XML, HTML
Harvest GUID
https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=f7464f3658ba439ba577651b32014cfe

Contact

Enquiries

ons.geography@ons.gov.uk

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