United Kingdom

United Kingdom location information schemes.

  • CRESTA
  • Postal Area
  • Postal Area and Postal Sector
  • Postal Area - Postal Sector and Postal Sector Unit

Required information

For the United Kingdom, in addition to the country code, any combination of the following information can be provided:

  • CRESTA
  • Postal Area (area, one or two characters)
  • Postal Sector (subarea, four or five characters) A postal sector code consists of one or two alphabetic characters, one or two digits or one digit and one alphabetic character, a space, and one digit. Some example postal sector codes are "AB10 1," "WC1X 8," and "WS2 7."
  • Postal Sector Unit (postal, five to seven characters) A postal sector unit code consists of one or two alphabetic characters, one or two digits or one digit and one alphabetic character, a space, one digit, and two alphabetic characters. Some examples of postal sector unit codes are "CV34 4PX," "W4 9BU," and "WC1X 8NH." Verisk has updated 1.7 million postal code records for the United Kingdom. Note, however, that Verisk did not update postal codes in Northern Ireland, Isle of Man, Jersey, and Guernsey due to a lack of source data.
  • Latitude/longitude

During the geocoding process, Verisk Synergy Studio matches and processes one of the supported schemes according to the scheme rules for the United Kingdom.

Note:

Verisk recommends using codes instead of names for these fields to ensure better match rates.

Resolution levels

The following table compares the resolution levels of the location information schemes for the United Kingdom:

Table 1. United Kingdom location information scheme resolution levels
Resolution level Location information scheme
Maximum Postal Area - Postal Sector and Postal Sector Unit
Postal Area and Postal Sector
Postal Area
Minimum CRESTA