Introduction
These are the version notes for the latest Scottish Postcode Directory (SPD) spatial data (ESRI Shapefile format), postcode index and accompanying lookup files (CSV format).
Overview
The data is based on the July 2025 release of Royal Mail’s Postcode Address File (PAF) and contains:
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All postcodes
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Live postcodes
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Deleted postcodes
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All postcodes
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246,685
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161,634
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85,051
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Small User
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195,937
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156,636
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39,301
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Large User
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50,748
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4,998
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45,750
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The number of live, digitised small user postcodes is 155,467.
Postcode Index Changes
There are no changes to the Postcode Index for this release.
Known Errors
There were 6 Large User postcodes where the ‘LinkedSmallUserPostcode’ field was showing as LINKING. This has been rectified.
There was an anomaly where the ‘GridLinkPositionalAccuracy’ field was not being populated fully should the ‘GridLinkIndicator’ field be populated with ‘Y’. This was for Large User postcodes only. This has been rectified.
There was a name format issue discovered in the Locality 2022 Lookup where code S52000430 showing ‘"Margaidh ┘r ‘ instead of the correct name of ‘Margaidh Ùr, Lacasdal and Bruach Mairi (Newmarket, Laxdale and Marybank)’. This has been rectified. Thank you to Registers of Scotland for highlighting this.
Supply Restrictions
Postcode Index – customers requiring Royal Mail Delivery Point Count information should contact our Geography Customer Services team.
Postcode boundaries are only available to members of the Public Sector Geospatial Agreement (PSGA) (Ordnance Survey website).
Further information on these restrictions is available on the Geography products - licensing and pricing page of the website.
Data Downloads
Related Content
Geography products - licensing and pricing
Geography policies and information notes
Scotland’s catalogue of spatial data
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