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Search for an area name, or enter a postcode or latitude and longitude.

Use your location

Tools

Add data to a CSV with a column of postcode data. Information includes latitude/longitude and areas.

Combine GeoJSON files into one merged file.

Reduce GeoJSON filesize.

Use the API

The API provides programmatic access to the postcode data, using the JSON api specification.


Use the API

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Use the API

The API provides programmatic access to the postcode data, using the JSON api specification.

The .json at the end of the url is optional, requests will return json by default unless .html is added.

ONS GSS codes are used for area IDs.

Example requests

Get data on a postcode /postcodes/AB12+3CD.json Example Example HTML
Get data about a postcode nearest
to a latitude, longitude point
/points/51.501009,-0.141588.json Example Example HTML
Get data about an area
Includes 5 random postcodes from the area
/areas/E01000001.json Example Example HTML
Get an area's boundaries as geojson
NB not available for all areas
/areas/E01000001.geojson Example
Get data about a place
Includes 5 random postcodes from the area
/places/IPN0000001.json Example Example HTML
Search for areas containing a string /search/?q=search+term Example HTML
Get information about a type of area
(local authority, parliamentary constituency, etc)
/areatypes/pcon.json Example Example HTML
Get information about all types of area /areatypes/ HTML