📮 UK Postcodes Scraper

🚀 Turn UK postcodes into rich location data. Look up any postcode and get coordinates, district, ward, constituency, and health and census areas.

🕒 Last updated: 2026-06-04 · 📊 27 fields per postcode · powered by postcodes.io · England, Scotland, Wales

Resolve UK postcodes into full geographic and administrative records using the public postcodes.io service. Paste a list of postcodes, search by a partial postcode, or reverse geocode from a coordinate, and get latitude and longitude, local authority district, electoral ward, parliamentary constituency, NHS and clinical commissioning areas, census codes, and more for every result.

Coverage: every live postcode in England, Scotland, and Wales, with three ways to query: bulk lookup, partial search, and reverse geocoding by coordinate.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
Sales and CRM teams	Enrich customer records by postcode
Logistics and delivery	Geocode addresses to coordinates
Analysts and researchers	Map data to districts and constituencies
App and data teams	Validate and standardize postcodes

📋 What the UK Postcodes Scraper does

• Looks up a list of postcodes in bulk.
• Searches matching postcodes from a partial code.
• Reverse geocodes the nearest postcodes to a coordinate.
• Returns 27 structured fields per postcode.
• Maps each postcode to district, ward, and constituency.
• Exports to CSV, Excel, JSON, XML, or via API.

🎬 Full Demo (🚧 Coming soon)

⚙️ Input

Field	Type	Description
postcodes	array	UK postcodes to look up in bulk. The main mode.
query	string	Partial postcode to search, used when the list is empty.
latitude	string	Center latitude for reverse geocoding.
longitude	string	Center longitude for reverse geocoding.
radiusMeters	integer	Reverse geocode radius in meters, up to 2000.
maxItems	integer	Cap on records returned. Free plan is limited to 10.

Example 1: bulk lookup

{
  "postcodes": ["OX1 1DP", "M1 1AE", "GU1 3UW", "CF10 1EP"],
  "maxItems": 100
}

Example 2: reverse geocode a coordinate

{
  "latitude": "51.5010",
  "longitude": "-0.1416",
  "radiusMeters": 1000,
  "maxItems": 50
}

⚠️ Good to Know: modes are tried in order, so a postcode list takes priority over a search, and a search takes priority over a coordinate. Some fields depend on the nation, for example adminCounty is filled for shire counties but empty for metropolitan areas, and region applies to England. Invalid postcodes return a record with an error message.

📊 Output

Each record contains the following fields:

Field	Description
📮 postcode	Full postcode
🔤 outcode	Outward code
🔡 incode	Inward code
⭐ quality	Positional quality indicator
🏳 country	England, Scotland, or Wales
🗺 region	Region, for England
🏛 adminDistrict	Local authority district
📍 adminWard	Electoral ward
🏞 adminCounty	County, for shire areas
⛪ parish	Parish
🗳 parliamentaryConstituency	Parliamentary constituency
🧭 latitude	Latitude
🧭 longitude	Longitude
📐 eastings	OS grid eastings
📐 northings	OS grid northings
🏥 nhsHa	NHS health authority
🩺 ccg	Clinical commissioning group
🧮 lsoa	Lower layer super output area
🧮 msoa	Middle layer super output area
🇪🇺 nuts	International territorial unit
👮 pfa	Police force area
🧳 ttwa	Travel to work area
📅 dateOfIntroduction	When the postcode was introduced
📉 indexOfMultipleDeprivation	Deprivation rank
🔎 searchTerm	Query that surfaced this record
🕒 scrapedAt	Collection timestamp
❌ error	Error message, null on success

Real sample records:

{
  "postcode": "OX1 1DP",
  "outcode": "OX1",
  "incode": "1DP",
  "country": "England",
  "region": "South East",
  "adminDistrict": "Oxford",
  "adminWard": "Holywell",
  "adminCounty": "Oxfordshire",
  "parliamentaryConstituency": "Oxford West and Abingdon",
  "latitude": 51.749908,
  "longitude": -1.256533,
  "nhsHa": "South Central",
  "ccg": "NHS Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West",
  "pfa": "Thames Valley",
  "error": null
}

{
  "postcode": "GU1 3UW",
  "outcode": "GU1",
  "incode": "3UW",
  "country": "England",
  "region": "South East",
  "adminDistrict": "Guildford",
  "adminWard": "Castle",
  "adminCounty": "Surrey",
  "parliamentaryConstituency": "Guildford",
  "latitude": 51.234743,
  "longitude": -0.572952,
  "nhsHa": "South East Coast",
  "ccg": "NHS Surrey Heartlands",
  "pfa": "Surrey",
  "error": null
}

{
  "postcode": "CF10 1EP",
  "outcode": "CF10",
  "incode": "1EP",
  "country": "Wales",
  "adminDistrict": "Cardiff",
  "adminWard": "Cathays",
  "parliamentaryConstituency": "Cardiff South and Penarth",
  "latitude": 51.475764,
  "longitude": -3.179217,
  "nhsHa": "Cardiff and Vale University Health Board",
  "ccg": "Cardiff and Vale University",
  "pfa": "South Wales",
  "error": null
}

✨ Why choose this Actor

• Three query modes. Bulk lookup, partial search, and reverse geocoding.
• Rich detail. 27 fields covering geography, politics, health, and census.
• Three nations. England, Scotland, and Wales in one run.
• Coordinates included. Latitude and longitude on every valid postcode.
• Ready to export. CSV, Excel, JSON, XML, or API, with a clean table view.

📈 How it compares to alternatives

	UK Postcodes Scraper	Manual lookup site	Generic web scrapers
Bulk list in one run	✅	❌	⚠️ Needs setup
District, ward, constituency	✅	⚠️	❌
Reverse geocode by coordinate	✅	⚠️	❌
Health and census areas	✅	❌	❌
Export to CSV/Excel/JSON/XML	✅	❌	⚠️

🚀 How to use

1. Create a free Apify account using this sign-up link.
2. Open the UK Postcodes Scraper.
3. Paste a list of postcodes, or set a query, or a latitude and longitude.
4. Click Start and watch the dataset fill in real time.
5. Export your results as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML, or pull them via API.

💼 Business use cases

🎯 Data enrichment

Goal	How
Enrich a CRM	Look up customer postcodes in bulk
Standardize records	Replace messy codes with clean ones

📦 Logistics

Goal	How
Plan deliveries	Geocode postcodes to coordinates
Group by area	Cluster by district or ward

📊 Analysis

Goal	How
Map to constituencies	Join data on parliamentary areas
Study deprivation	Use the deprivation index

🏥 Public sector

Goal	How
Health planning	Map postcodes to NHS areas
Census work	Use LSOA and MSOA codes

🔌 Automating UK Postcodes Scraper

Connect this Actor to your stack with Apify integrations: Make, Zapier, Slack, Airbyte, GitHub, and Google Drive. Schedule runs and push fresh postcode data into spreadsheets, databases, or alerts.

🌟 Beyond business use cases

• Research: join survey data to districts and wards.
• Personal: find the constituency or NHS area for an address.
• Non-profit: target services by deprivation index.
• Experimentation: build maps and geocoding tools.

🤖 Ask an AI assistant

Paste your dataset into ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, or Copilot and ask for postcodes grouped by district, constituency, or deprivation rank.

❓ Frequently Asked Questions

1. Do I need an API key? No. The Actor uses the public postcodes.io service.

2. Which areas are covered? England, Scotland, and Wales. Northern Ireland is not included.

3. How do I look up many postcodes at once? Paste them into the postcodes list. They are processed in bulk.

4. Can I search a partial postcode? Yes. Put it in query, for example EC1A.

5. Can I find postcodes near a point? Yes. Set latitude, longitude, and radiusMeters.

6. What happens with an invalid postcode? You get a record with an error message so nothing is silently dropped.

7. Why is the county empty sometimes? Counties apply to shire areas. Metropolitan and unitary areas leave it empty.

8. Are coordinates always included? Yes, for every valid postcode.

9. What export formats are supported? CSV, Excel, JSON, XML, and API.

10. Can I run it on a schedule? Yes, with Apify Schedules and integrations.

11. Is there a free option? Yes. Free runs are limited to 10 items as a preview. Paid plans unlock up to 1,000,000.

🔌 Integrate with any app

Use the Apify API, webhooks, and 5,000-plus integrations to push postcode data into Make, Zapier, Google Sheets, Airtable, databases, and more.

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⚠️ Disclaimer: independent tool, not affiliated with postcodes.io or the Office for National Statistics. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence.