Postcode to Broad Rental Market Areas (BRMAs) Lookup v2.1 (2024)

This dataset is part of an existing series. First version: Urban Big Data Centre (2023). Postcode to Broad Rental Market Areas (BRMAs) Lookup [Data set]. University of Glasgow. This dataset is a lookup file linking unit postcodes to Broad Rental Market Area (BRMA) boundaries for Great Britainthe UK. BRMAs are the spatial areas used for the administration of Housing Benefit or Local Housing Allowance in Great Britain. There are 192 200 BRMAs in total.

BRMA boundaries were collected from publicly available datasets. For Great Britain, postcodes were linked to BRMAs using and linked to postcode centroids from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) postcode centroid lookups. For Northern Ireland, the lack of open postcode data required the use of a workaround. Full details on process here: https://github.com/nick-bailey/Postcode-to-BRMA-lookup.

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Urban Big Data Centre (2024). Postcode to Broad Rental Market Areas (BRMAs) Lookup v2.1 (2024) [Data set]. University of Glasgow. https://doi.org/10.20394/fjj2y913
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Additional Info

Title Postcode to Broad Rental Market Areas (BRMAs) Lookup v2.1 (2024)
Alternative title
URL postcode-to-broad-rental-market-areas-brmas-lookup-v2-1-2024
Description

This dataset is part of an existing series. First version: Urban Big Data Centre (2023). Postcode to Broad Rental Market Areas (BRMAs) Lookup [Data set]. University of Glasgow. This dataset is a lookup file linking unit postcodes to Broad Rental Market Area (BRMA) boundaries for Great Britainthe UK. BRMAs are the spatial areas used for the administration of Housing Benefit or Local Housing Allowance in Great Britain. There are 192 200 BRMAs in total.

BRMA boundaries were collected from publicly available datasets. For Great Britain, postcodes were linked to BRMAs using and linked to postcode centroids from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) postcode centroid lookups. For Northern Ireland, the lack of open postcode data required the use of a workaround. Full details on process here: https://github.com/nick-bailey/Postcode-to-BRMA-lookup.

Content

This dataset is a lookup file linking unit postcodes to Broad Rental Market Area (BRMA) boundaries for Great Britain the UK. BRMAs are the spatial areas used for the administration of Housing Benefit or Local Housing Allowance in Great Britain. There are 192 200 BRMAs in total.

Collection process includes only open access data. In detail:

BRMA boundaries were collected from the following sources:

England: April 2014 version: Boswarva, Owen. (2017). Broad Rental Market Areas (England), [Dataset]. independent researcher. https://doi.org/10.7488/ds/1963 . Obtained using FOI. Open Government Licence.

Scotland: Boswarva, Owen. (2017). Broad Rental Market Areas (Scotland), [Dataset]. independent researcher. https://doi.org/10.7488/ds/1968. Obtained using FOI. Open Government Licence.

Wales: Boswarva, Owen. (2017). Broad Rental Market Areas (Wales), [Dataset]. independent researcher. https://doi.org/10.7488/ds/1965. Obtained using FOI. Open Government Licence.

Northern Ireland: no boundaries but uses list of postcode districts for each BRMA (https://www.nihe.gov.uk/housing-help/local-housing-allowance/current-lha-rent-levels)

For Great Britain, postcode centroids were collected from: https://geoportal.statistics.gov.uk/datasets/ons::nspl-online-latest-centroids/ (downloaded May 2024) Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0 Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right.

For Northern Ireland, to avoid using postcode data, we generated a list of every possible postcode and linked these with BRMAs using the NIHE list of postcode districts noted above.

Subjects Postcode, Broad Rental Market Area
Topics
Dataset Citation Urban Big Data Centre. Economic and Social Research Council. Postcode to Broad Rental Market Areas (BRMAs) Lookup,v2.1, 2024 [data collection]. University of Glasgow - Urban Big Data Centre. DOI: https://doi.org/10.20394/8bi4vxq2
Time Period Coverage
Geographical Coverage United Kingdom
Spatial Units Broad Rental Market Area, Postcode
Observation Units
Resource Type
Data Format Structured data
Weighting
Method of Collection

Online open access sources (UK Government)

Collection Status
Dataset Aggregation
Data Owner Urban Big Data Centre
Data Owner Url https://ubdc.ac.uk/
License uk-ogl
Licence Specifics
Provider b2ba2219-ff6c-461a-a746-e762ef7600fd
Version
Dataset Available
Dataset Closed
Dataset Valid
Dataset Updating Frequency
Dataset Next Version Due
Date Published 2024-10-18
Date of Fieldwork
Dataset File Type
Dataset File Size 129,065 KB
Dataset Creation Date
Dataset Access Restrictions Open Dataset
Metadata Created Date 2024-10-18
Metadata Created Institution Urban Big Data Centre
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