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GeoCode / Geographic intelligence
UK postcode and geography reference data.
Every UK postcode connected to its coordinates, administrative area, population and official statistics. The foundation our platforms use to compare places fairly.
What it does
Most questions about a place need more than a pin on a map: how deprived the area is, how many people live there, and which other areas it is genuinely comparable to.
GeoCode answers those questions consistently across our estate. It is what allows UK Crime Statistics to benchmark a neighbourhood against similar places rather than against raw counts, and it is refreshed on a monthly cycle. The same foundation is available to partner projects.
Capabilities
Key features
Location
Connect a postcode with its coordinates and the administrative areas it belongs to.
Context
Bring population, deprivation and neighbourhood statistics into location-based work.
Shared foundation
Use the same geographic layer that underpins our platforms in your own project.
Next steps
Build on GeoCode.
GeoCode is the geographic layer under UK Crime Statistics and Safeguarding Context rather than a public product. If your service needs to understand place, whether that is matching postcodes to areas, attaching official statistics, or comparing locations, it can be used inside a product we build with you.
Contact
Get in touch.
Enquiries are answered by the people who would carry out the work.