Census 2001 - Postcode Units

This is the set of postcode boundaries used for 2001 census outputs. The postcode boundaries for census were originally frozen in January 2001 for the purposes of producing census outputs.


The dataset contains 139,045 postcode polygons.

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Identification info

Metadata Language
English
Character set
UTF8
Dataset Reference Date (Publication)
2003-02-13
Dataset Reference Date (Creation)
2003-02-13
Identifier
www.nrscotland.gov.uk / FrozenPostcode2001
Publisher
  National Records of Scotland - ( Geography branch )
General Register House, 2 Princes Street , Edinburgh , Scotland , EH1 3YY , United Kingdom
Maintenance and update frequency
Not planned

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

  • Statistical units

GEMET - Concepts, version 2.4

  • census survey

  • statistical data

IPSV Subjects List

  • Postcodes

  • Boundaries

  • Censuses
Limitations on Public Access
Other restrictions
Other constraints
No limitations to public access
Use constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints
Open Government Licence
Other constraints

The following statements must be used when reproducing or using this material: Copyright National Records of Scotland, contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right (insert year).
Spatial representation type
Vector
Denominator
10000
Topic category
  • Boundaries
Code
S92000003
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S
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Temporal reference

Temporal extent
 
Temporal extent
 
 
Code
EPSG:4258
Code
EPSG:27700

Distribution Information

Data format

Data format
Name Version

WMS

1.3.0

WFS

2.0.0

ESRI Shapefile

1.0
 

Transfer options

Resource Locator
Protocol Resource Locator Name

OGC:WMS

 		https://maps.gov.scot/server/services/NRS/Census2001/MapServer/WMSServer?

PostcodeUnit2001

OGC:WFS

 		https://maps.gov.scot/server/services/NRS/Census2001/MapServer/WFSServer?

CEN2001:PostcodeUnit2001
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link https://webarchive.nrscotland.gov.uk/20241128122812/https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/statistics-and-data/geography/our-products/census-datasets/2001-census

National Records of Scotland website (archive)
 
 

Data quality info

Quality Scope
Dataset
Conformity
Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services
Explanation
Degree
false
Statement

The history of creating and maintaining the postcode dataset is contained in the live postcode boundary dataset. Because we built up geographies such as council areas from postcodes we were aware of situations where the NRS council area boundary did not match exactly with the OS BoundaryLine product.


This is the set of postcode boundaries used for 2001 census outputs. The postcode boundaries for census were originally frozen in January 2001 for the purposes of producing census outputs.


The dataset contains 139,045 postcode polygons.
 

Metadata

File identifier
80702fed-280d-4ea7-8911-ca09d53d4929 XML
Metadata Language
English
Resource type
Dataset
Hierarchy level name

dataset
Metadata Date
2025-02-11T13:28:11.311Z
Metadata standard name
UK GEMINI
Metadata standard version

2.3

Point of contact

Organisation name

National Records of Scotland
Position name

Geography branch
Delivery point

General Register House, 2 Princes Street
City

Edinburgh
Administrative area

Scotland
Postal code

EH1 3YY
Country

United Kingdom
Electronic mail address

geographycustomerservices@nrscotland.gov geographycustomerservices@nrscotland.gov.uk

Role
Point of contact
Point of contact
  National Records of Scotland - ( Geography branch )
General Register House, 2 Princes Street , Edinburgh , Scotland , EH1 3YY , United Kingdom
 
 
 

Overviews

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Keywords

GEMET - Concepts, version 2.4
census survey statistical data
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
Statistical units
IPSV Subjects List
Boundaries Censuses Postcodes

Publishing Body

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Associated resources (if any)

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