UK Postcodes
A trimmed directory of live UK postcodes with outcode, incode, sector, postcode area, town or city, longitude and latitude.
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Datasets
1,919,372
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2× yearly
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Download reusable UK location datasets without registration or an email gate. Each release includes a data dictionary, source notes, a permanent landing page and stable links back to the relevant Postcodes UK records.
Datasets are reviewed and updated twice annually, normally in March and September. Material source changes may prompt an additional release.
Available datasets
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Postcode Sector Profiles
A row for every live UK postcode sector, combining geography, postcode and school counts, aggregated property sales and permanent Postcodes UK URLs.
Schools by Postcode Sector
A UK schools directory mapped to postcode sectors, with establishment details, Ofsted fields, coordinates and permanent school and sector URLs.
Police Stations
A directory of UK police stations and public contact points with postcode geography, police force, contact details and coordinates.
Hospitals
A directory of UK hospitals and urgent-care locations with service type, A&E indicator, postcode geography, contact details and coordinates.
GP Practices
A directory of UK GP practices with organisation code, postcode-sector geography, locality, region and coordinates.
Train Stations
A directory of National Rail stations in England, Scotland and Wales with address, postcode-sector geography and coordinates where matched.
Places Nearest Sea Level
The 1,000 built-up places in England, Scotland and Wales whose recorded elevation is closest to zero metres above sea level.
Highest Places
The 1,000 highest-elevation built-up places in England, Scotland and Wales from the Postcodes UK towns list.
Middle-Elevation Places
The 1,000 built-up places in England, Scotland and Wales closest to the towns list median elevation of 62 metres.
Longest Place-to-Place Spans
The 500 longest unique great-circle spans between built-up places in England, Scotland and Wales.
Most Isolated Places
The 1,000 built-up places with the greatest straight-line distance to their nearest other place in the towns list.
Closest Place Pairs
The 1,000 closest unique pairs of built-up places in England, Scotland and Wales by great-circle distance.
Farthest from a Train Station
The 1,000 Great Britain built-up places farthest from their nearest matched National Rail station.
Farthest from a Hospital
The 1,000 Great Britain built-up places farthest from their nearest hospital or urgent-care location in the source data.
Farthest from a GP Practice
The 1,000 Great Britain built-up places farthest from their nearest GP practice in the source data.
Farthest from a Police Station
The 1,000 Great Britain built-up places farthest from their nearest police station or public contact point.
Property-Price Sector Extremes
The 1,000 highest and 1,000 lowest average-price postcode sectors with at least 50 matched property transactions.
School Density Sector Extremes
The 1,000 highest and 1,000 lowest postcode sectors by schools per 1,000 live postcodes.
Widest East-to-West Spans
The 500 longest place pairs at broadly similar latitudes, showing wide east-to-west spans across Great Britain.
Longest North-to-South Spans
The 500 longest place pairs at broadly similar longitudes, showing north-to-south spans across Great Britain.
Places to the Edge of Space
The 1,000 closest and 1,000 farthest built-up places from the conventional 100 km Kármán line, based on ground elevation.
Same-Name Place Pairs
Pairs of postcode localities in different administrative areas that share the same recorded name, with the distance between them.
Combined Public-Service Deserts
England and Wales places with the greatest mean straight-line distance to their nearest train station, hospital, GP practice and police station.
Best-Connected Places
England and Wales places with the smallest mean straight-line distance to their nearest train station, hospital, GP practice and police station.
Nearby Elevation Contrasts
The 500 largest elevation differences among place pairs within each of 5, 10 and 25 miles.
Postcode Sector Elevation Extremes
The 1,000 highest and 1,000 lowest postcode sectors by mean postcode elevation, with minimum, maximum and range.
Closest Cross-Border Places
The 500 closest England–Wales and 500 closest England–Scotland built-up-place pairs.
Places Nearest County Centres
The built-up place nearest the mean coordinate of the places recorded in each county or equivalent area.
County Cardinal Place Extremes
The four cardinal built-up-place extremes for each Great Britain county or equivalent area.
Railway Station Elevation Rankings
The 500 highest and 500 lowest National Rail stations with matched postcode elevations.
Largest Service Gaps
England and Wales places with the largest difference between their nearest and farthest service-category distances.
Property-Price Sector Outliers
The 1,000 sectors most above and 1,000 most below their own postcode district’s average sale price.
School and House-Price Contrasts
The 1,000 strongest affordable school-rich and 1,000 strongest expensive school-sparse postcode-sector contrasts.
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How to attribute the data
Please credit the compilation and link to its dataset page so readers can find the methodology, current release and underlying source notices.
Source: Postcodes UK (postcodesuk.com), “Dataset title”, accessed 28 September 2026. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0; additional source rights and attribution statements apply.
Designed for research and publishing
The downloads are intended for journalists, researchers, educators, developers and analysts who need a clean starting point for postcode-level work. Values are supplied as published or derived from the named sources and should not be treated as real-time or as a substitute for an authoritative operational lookup.
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