dataset · United Kingdom
ONSUD LATEST
<p>This file contains the latest ONS UPRN Directory (ONSUD) for Great Britain. The ONSUD relates the Unique Property Reference Number (UPRN) for each GB address from AddressBase® to a range of current statutory administrative, electoral, health and other statistical geographies. The ONSUD is produced by ONS Geography, who provide geographic support to the Office for National Statistics (ONS) and geographic services used by other organisations. The ONSUD is issued every 6 weeks and is designed to
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Licence: not stated
Evidence quality: 24.9
Listed in data.gov.uk public catalogue API on 2026-10-16; relevance/value screened (haiku).
Metadata checked: 2026-10-14T13:20:00.000Z
What's in it
- Data offered docs-verified
- UPRN to statutory administrative geographies · UPRN to electoral geographies · UPRN to health geographies · UPRN to other statistical geographies
- Coverage docs-verified
- Great Britain
- Resolution llm-inferred
- Per GB address (UPRN level)
- Update frequency docs-verified
- Every 6 weeks
- Access docs-verified
- Open Government Licence v3.0 per data.gov.uk footer; product also contains Royal Mail, Gridlink, Ordnance Survey and ONS IPR, so check the User Guide before reuse
Useful for
- Use cases llm-inferred
- Assign UPRN-level property points to statutory administrative and ward geographies for FRA consultation and mapping · Link property-level datasets to LSOA/MSOA geographies for population-exposure inputs to drainage or flood-risk screening · Join AddressBase-based address data to ONS geographies for catchment-scale socio-economic screening
- Audience llm-inferred
- GIS analysts · flood risk consultants · drainage engineers · planners
Limitations
- Constraints llm-inferred
- Large download (515 MB) per DOCS file size note · Great Britain only; Northern Ireland not stated as covered · data.gov.uk page metadata shows Licence 'Not set', conflicting with the footer OGL statement · Contains third-party Royal Mail, Gridlink and Ordnance Survey IPR · Designed to complement AddressBase, which is needed for the UPRN join · Issued every 6 weeks, so it needs regular refresh · Data format and schema are not stated in DOCS; the User Guide in the zip is referenced but not included
Evidence
- https://open-geography-portalx-ons.hub.arcgis.com/datasets/ons::onsud-latest
- https://www.data.gov.uk/dataset/2d9fa6fa-5812-455e-807d-e6cc3f624fac/onsud-latest1
Check upstream coverage, uncertainty and licence before use. Station observations are not forecasts or design levels.