ONS Postcode Directory (August 2018) for the UK

This is the ONS Postcode Directory (ONSPD) for the United Kingdom as at August 2018 in Comma Separated Variable (CSV) and ASCII text (TXT) formats. This file contains the multi CSVs so that postcode areas can be opened in MS Excel. To download the zip file click the Download button. The ONSPD relates both current and terminated postcodes in the United Kingdom to a range of current statutory administrative, electoral, health and other area geographies. It also links postcodes to pre-2002 health areas, 1991 Census enumeration districts for England and Wales, 2001 Census Output Areas (OA) and Super Output Areas (SOA) for England and Wales, 2001 Census OAs and SOAs for Northern Ireland and 2001 Census OAs and Data Zones (DZ) for Scotland. It helps support the production of area based statistics from postcoded data. The ONSPD is produced by ONS Geography, who provide geographic support to the Office for National Statistics (ONS) and geographic services used by other organisations. The ONSPD is issued quarterly. (File size - 208 MB) Please note that this product contains Royal Mail, Gridlink, LPS (Northern Ireland), Ordnance Survey and ONS Intellectual Property Rights.

本数据集为截至2018年8月的英国ONS邮政编码目录（ONS Postcode Directory, ONSPD），提供逗号分隔变量（Comma Separated Variable, CSV）与ASCII文本（ASCII Text, TXT）两种格式。本文件内含多个CSV文件，方便用户在Microsoft Excel中打开邮政编码区域相关数据。点击下载按钮即可获取该压缩包文件。
ONSPD将英国当前及已停用的邮政编码，与一系列现行法定行政区划、选举分区、卫生区域及其他地域地理分区建立关联。此外，该目录还可将邮政编码与2002年之前的卫生区域、英格兰及威尔士的1991年人口普查枚举区、英格兰及威尔士的2001年人口普查输出区域（Output Areas, OA）与超级输出区域（Super Output Areas, SOA）、北爱尔兰的2001年人口普查OA与SOA，以及苏格兰的2001年人口普查OA与数据区域（Data Zones, DZ）建立关联。该目录可助力基于邮政编码数据开展区域统计数据的编制工作。
ONSPD由ONS地理部门（ONS Geography）编制，该部门不仅为英国国家统计局（Office for National Statistics, ONS）提供地理支撑服务，还为其他机构提供地理信息服务。该目录按季度发布，文件大小为208 MB。
请注意，本产品包含皇家邮政（Royal Mail）、Gridlink、北爱尔兰LPS（LPS (Northern Ireland)）、英国地形测量局（Ordnance Survey）及ONS的知识产权。