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National Statistics Postcode Lookup (May 2026) for the UK (Hosted Table)

Publisher
Office for National Statistics
Updated
10 June 2026
Topic
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Licence
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Summary

This is the National Statistics Postcode Lookup (NSPL) for the United Kingdom as at May 2026 in Comma Separated Variable (CSV). This is a new hosted table so can be accessed via API. 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 - %%% MB).

Data links

Link Format Preview Updated
KML KML 3/6/2026
GeoJSON GEOJSON 3/6/2026
Shapefile ZIP 3/6/2026
CSV CSV Preview 3/6/2026
ArcGIS GeoService ARCGIS GEOSERVICES REST API 3/6/2026
ArcGIS Hub Dataset HTML 3/6/2026

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Additional information

Source Metadata
XML, HTML
Harvest GUID
https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=03b9231264094b6ea6c1aaf8c9a185ad&sublayer=0

Contact

Enquiries

ons.geography@ons.gov.uk

Freedom of information (FOI) requests

FOI.Team@ons.gov.uk