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National Statistics Postcode Lookup (August 2026) User Guide

Publisher
Office for National Statistics
Updated
3 September 2026
Topic
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Licence
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Summary

This User Guide contains information about the NSUL including: directory content; data currency; the methodology for assigning areas to postcodes; data formats; data quality and limitations and details of recent changes that have impacted on the data. Various annexes and tables provide more detailed supporting information. The download includes PDF and ODT versions of the user guide. (File size - 715 KB)

Data links

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ArcGIS Hub Dataset HTML 3/9/2026

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Additional information

Source Metadata
XML, HTML
Harvest GUID
https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=d5f2f06280a446878987b2076b08fa58

Contact

Enquiries

ons.geography@ons.gov.uk

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