Postcode to Broad Rental Market Areas (BRMAs) Lookup v2.2 (2025)
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Title | Postcode to Broad Rental Market Areas (BRMAs) Lookup v2.2 (2025) |
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URL | postcode-to-broad-rental-market-areas-brmas-lookup-v2-2-2025 |
Description | This dataset is a lookup file linking unit postcodes to Broad Rental Market Area (BRMA) boundaries for the UK. BRMAs are the spatial areas used for the administration of Housing Benefit or Local Housing Allowance. There are 200 BRMAs in total. BRMA boundaries were collected from publicly available datasets. For Great Britain, postcodes were linked to BRMAs using 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. In v2.2, we correct an error from the previous version which meant that West Dunbartonshire BRMA had been omitted with postcodes in that zone wrongly attributed to neighbouring BRMAs. |
Content | The dataset contains a list of postcodes (current and historic) and the BRMA (reference number and name) to which they belong as well as the country. |
Subjects | Housing |
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Dataset Citation | Urban Big Data Centre. Economic and Social Research Council. Postcode to Broad Rental Market Areas (BRMAs) Lookup,v2.2, 2025 [data collection]. University of Glasgow - Urban Big Data Centre |
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Geographical Coverage | United Kingdom |
Spatial Units | Broad Rental Market Area, Postcode |
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Resource Type | Dataset |
Data Format | Structured data |
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Method of Collection | Online open access sources (UK Government) |
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Data Owner | Urban Big Data Centre |
Data Owner Url | https://ubdc.ac.uk/ |
License | uk-ogl |
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Provider | b2ba2219-ff6c-461a-a746-e762ef7600fd |
Version | 2.2 |
Dataset Available | 2025-01-17 |
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Date Published | 2025-01-17 |
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Dataset File Size | 16,344 KB |
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