The Unique Property Reference Number (UPRN) is a unique alphanumeric identifier (a

geocode A geocode is a code that represents a geographic entity (location or object). It is a unique identifier of the entity, to distinguish it from others in a finite set of geographic entities. In general the ''geocode'' is a human-readable an ...

) for every spatial address in Great Britain and can be found in

Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey (OS) is the national mapping agency for Great Britain. The agency's name indicates its original military purpose (see ordnance and surveying), which was to map Scotland in the wake of the Jacobite rising of 1745. There was ...

's AddressBase products. A UPRN provides a comprehensive, complete, consistent identifier throughout a property’s life cycle from planning permission through to demolition. For example, the UPRN for 10 Downing Street is 100023336956, and that for

Bristol Central Library Bristol Central Library is a historic building on the south side of College Green, Bristol, England. It contains the main collections of Bristol's public library. Built in 1906 by Charles Holden, its design was influential in the development o ...

is 000000199356. The UPRN contains no attribution or information (for example coordinate position) about the property. UPRNs and USRNs ( Unique Street Reference Numbers) are managed by GeoPlace, a joint venture between the

Local Government Association The Local Government Association (LGA) is the national membership body for local authorities. Its core membership is made up of 339 English councils and the 22 Welsh councils through the Welsh Local Government Association. The LGA is p ...

and

to create a definitive national databases of addresses and streets, now available under an

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(OGL). The

Government Digital Service The Government Digital Service is a unit of the Government of the United Kingdom's Cabinet Office tasked with transforming the provision of online public services. It was formed in April 2011 to implement the "Digital by Default" strategy pro ...

has mandated the UPRN and USRN as "the public sector standard for referencing and sharing property and street information".

ONSUD

The

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(ONS) Geography group produces the ONS UPRN Directory (ONSUD) which relates the UPRN for each postal address in Great Britain to a range of current statutory administrative, electoral, health and other area geographies. It also links UPRNs to 2011 Census Output Areas (OA) and Super Output Areas (SOA). It is designed to complement the

's AddressBase location intelligence products. The ONSUD is issued every six weeks, and is available for free download in comma separated variable (CSV) format from the

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. The content is broken down by region, with each being supplied as a separate file (with a file each for Wales and Scotland). The ONSUD reflects UPRNs using information supplied on a 6-weekly basis by Ordnance Surveys's AddressBase. In most instances, it relates UPRNs to geographic areas as at the end of the preceding year. The ONSUD uses the

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(GSS) standard 9-character codes throughout and lookup files linking these codes to statutory area names are provided.ON
ONS UPRN Directory User Guide
Retrieved 9 April 2020

Data fields

Each record in the ONSUD contains the following fields: *Unique Property Reference Number *

Non-metropolitan county A non-metropolitan county, or colloquially, shire county, is a county-level entity in England that is not a metropolitan county. The counties typically have populations of 300,000 to 1.8 million. The term ''shire county'' is, however, an unoffi ...

metropolitan county The metropolitan counties are a type of county-level administrative division of England. There are six metropolitan counties, which each cover large urban areas, with populations between 1 and 3 million. They were created in 1974 and are each di ...

Inner London Inner London is the name for the group of London boroughs which form the interior part of Greater London and are surrounded by Outer London. With its origins in the bills of mortality, it became fixed as an area for statistics in 1847 and was use ...

Outer London Outer London is the name for the group of London boroughs that form a ring around Inner London. Together, the inner and outer boroughs form London, the capital city of the United Kingdom. These were areas that were not part of the County of Lond ...

*County Electoral Division *

Local Authority District The districts of England (also known as local authority districts or local government districts to distinguish from unofficial city districts) are a level of subnational division of England used for the purposes of local government. As the st ...

(LAD) /

unitary authority A unitary authority is a local authority responsible for all local government functions within its area or performing additional functions that elsewhere are usually performed by a higher level of sub-national government or the national governme ...

(UA) /

metropolitan district A metropolitan borough (or metropolitan district) is a type of local government district in England. Created in 1974 by the Local Government Act 1972, metropolitan boroughs are defined in English law as metropolitan districts within metropoli ...

(MD) /

London borough The London boroughs are the 32 local authority districts that together with the City of London make up the administrative area of Greater London; each is governed by a London borough council. The present London boroughs were all created at t ...

(LB) / (Scottish)

council area {{Unreferenced, date=May 2019, bot=noref (GreenC bot) A council area is one of the areas defined in Schedule 1 of the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994 and is under the control of one of the local authorities in Scotland created by that Ac ...

(CA) * Electoral ward / division * Former Strategic Health Authority (SHA) / Local Health Board (LHB) / Health Board (HB) *

Country A country is a distinct part of the world, such as a state, nation, or other political entity. It may be a sovereign state or make up one part of a larger state. For example, the country of Japan is an independent, sovereign state, whil ...

Region In geography, regions, otherwise referred to as zones, lands or territories, are areas that are broadly divided by physical characteristics (physical geography), human impact characteristics (human geography), and the interaction of humanity and t ...

(former GOR) * Westminster parliamentary constituency * European Electoral Region (EER) *

Travel to Work Area A travel to work area or TTWA is a statistical tool used by UK Government agencies and local authorities, especially by the Department for Work and Pensions and Jobcentres, to indicate an area where the population would generally commute to a ...

(TTWA) * LAU2 area *

National park A national park is a natural park in use for conservation purposes, created and protected by national governments. Often it is a reserve of natural, semi-natural, or developed land that a sovereign state declares or owns. Although individua ...

*2011 Census Output Area (OA) *2011 Census Lower Layer Super Output Area (LSOA)/ Data Zone (DZ) *Middle Layer Super Output Area (MSOA) / Intermediate Zone (IZ) *

Parish A parish is a territorial entity in many Christian denominations, constituting a division within a diocese. A parish is under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of a priest, often termed a parish priest, who might be assisted by one or ...

community A community is a social unit (a group of living things) with commonality such as place, norms, religion, values, customs, or identity. Communities may share a sense of place situated in a given geographical area (e.g. a country, villag ...

*2011 Census Workplace Zone (WZ) *

Clinical Commissioning Group Clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) were NHS organisations set up by the Health and Social Care Act 2012 to organise the delivery of NHS services in each of their local areas in England. On 1 July 2022 they were abolished and replaced by Inte ...

(CCG) /

Local Health Board NHS Wales has been organised into administrative units known as Local Health Boards (LHB, ) since 2003. Following a reorganisation in 2009, there are currently seven local health boards in Wales. Local health boards may use an operational name ...

(LHB) /

Community Health Partnership Community Health Partnerships, known as CHPs (pronounced ''Chips'') were subdivisions of Health Boards in Scotland, from 2005 to 2015, after which their functions were fully taken over by Health and Social Care Partnerships in April 2015. CHPs h ...

(CHP) *

Built-up Area An urban area, built-up area or urban agglomeration is a human settlement with a high population density and infrastructure of built environment. Urban areas are created through urbanization and are categorized by urban morphology as cities, ...

(BUA) *Built-up Area Sub-division (BUASD) *2011 Census rural-urban classification *2011 Census Output Area classification (OAC) *

Local Enterprise Partnership In England, local enterprise partnerships (LEPs) are voluntary partnerships between local authorities and businesses, set up in 2011 by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills to help determine local economic priorities and lead econom ...

(LEP) - first instance *Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) - second instance * Police Force Area (PFA) *

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(IMD)

References

External links

{{Wikidata property, P8399
Open Geography Portal

Map of UPRNs
overlaid on

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data Office for National Statistics Demographics of England Demographics of Wales Demographics of Scotland Geodemographic databases Geographical databases in the United Kingdom National statistical services Statistical organisations in the United Kingdom Geocodes

ONSUD

Data fields

See also

References

External links