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Census 2001 - Postcode Units

Publisher
Scottish Government SpatialData.gov.scot
Updated
8 July 2026
Topic
Not set
Licence
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Summary

This is the set of postcode boundaries used for 2001 census outputs. The postcode boundaries for census were originally frozen in January 2001 for the purposes of producing census outputs. The dataset contains 139,045 postcode polygons.

Data links

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CEN2001:PostcodeUnit2001 11/2/2025
PostcodeUnit2001 11/2/2025

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Additional information

Source Metadata
XML, HTML
Date added
11 February 2025
Harvest GUID
80702fed-280d-4ea7-8911-ca09d53d4929
Extent (Latitude)
60.87° to 54.63°
Extent (Longitude)
-8.80° to -0.71°
Dataset reference date (publication)
2003-02-13
Dataset reference date (creation)
2003-02-13
Frequency of update
notPlanned
Access constraints
The following statements must be used when reproducing or using this material: Copyright National Records of Scotland, contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right (insert year).
Responsible party
National Records of Scotland (publisher)
ISO 19139 resource type
dataset
Metadata language
eng