UK Postcode Sector Boundaries

Postcode Sector Boundary Applications

Postcode boundaries are widely used across all business sectors for planning and managing geographic assets and operational structures. Common functions where postcode boundaries can benefit your business are:

• Sales territory design and management
• Franchise and dealer area planning
• Targeting direct marketing activity
• Planning distribution routes
• Analysing retail networks
• Planning door drop campaigns
• Mapping customer distributions
• Demographic analysis
• Insurance risk analysis
• and many more…

Benefits of Postcode Planning

• Increase revenues though more efficient time management and reduce operational overheads to increase profits.
• Increase sales conversions and profits through improved targeting.
• Identifying hidden opportunities by comparing retail networks or sales areas to target market concentrations.
• Reducing financial exposure through improved risk assessment.
• Optimise franchise and dealer networks to better serve your target audience.
• Minimise delivery costs to customers through efficient scheduling and routing.

Postcode Boundary Accuracy

The Boundaries have been created from Ordnance Survey location data which have a Positional Quality Indicator (PQI) indicating that the contributing grid references are “Within the building of the matched address closest to the postcode’s mean, determined automatically by Ordnance Survey.”  The result is a set of boundaries that will fall correctly between the contributing Postcode locations. It should be noted that as these boundaries are created programmatically so they will not accurately follow natural or man-made bounding features such as rivers, canals or road networks.  An example of the accuracy of the data is shown in the images on the postcode boundaries product specification document.

Coverage

These Postcode Sector, District and Area boundaries cover the United Kingdom (England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland).

Projection

British National Grid (OSGB). Latitude/ Longitude (WGS84) projection is available upon request.

Supply Format

Supplied within a Zip compressed file. File formats available include:  DXF, MID, MIF, SHA, SHA-BNG, JSON and KML.

Systems

For use in all GIS or mapping systems, such as MapInfo, Arc Info, or Google Maps.

Delivery

Instant Download: A link to the data, is emailed upon payment.