This release note provides information about the September 2024 release of the AddressBase products. These products were released to customers on 26 September 2024.
| Product | Full Supply Record Count[1] | Change-Only Update Record Count[2] |
|---|---|---|
There is a difference in product counts between taking a national Managed Great Britain Set (MGBS) and a national Area of Interest (AOI). This is because the two supplies use different selection criteria. The differences are shown in the following table, allowing for you to validate your data holdings once you have loaded the latest release of AddressBase data.
The national AOI refers to the pre-selection GB polygon from our download store. Therefore, if you have drawn your own AOI, the count will vary.
If you are unsure of your supply type, please check this with your OS Relationship Manager.
If you receive a Change-Only Update (COU) supply for your AddressBase product, you will receive Insert, Update and Delete records within the supplied file. The following tables detail the numbers of these records which can be expected in an MGBS supply,and also how many tiles are affected if you take your supply as Changed Chunks.
The following information relates to the currency of the source data used in the creation of Epoch 113:
Affected output formats: CSV and GML
There are 6 504 Unique Property Reference Numbers (UPRNs) which reference a Parent UPRN that cannot be found in the product. This is because the Parent UPRN is either provisional or historic and is not matched to the Royal Mail Postcode Address File (PAF) or Valuation Office Agency (VOA) record, meaning that it is not included in the AddressBase Plus product as per the existing background logic rules.
There are 227 records with a sao_start_no or sao_text that have no Parent UPRN in the product. This is because the Parent UPRN is a historical record which is included as part of the logic for record inclusion in the AddressBase Plus products.
The match rates for Council Tax and Non-Domestic Rates for Epoch 113 are detailed as follows based on Valuation Office Agency (VOA) records up to 19 August 2024. The match rate is applicable to the AddressBase Premium product.
Work is being undertaken to improve the classifications of records within the AddressBase products. This work has resulted in 37 159 more tertiary classifications present in Epoch 113 compared to Epoch 112. Indeed, 88.71% of these tertiary classification improvements are against residential codes.
The following graph shows the number of Postcode Address File (PAF) matched records in AddressBase by epoch:
The next release of AddressBase products, Epoch 114, is scheduled for 07 November 2024.
These counts are based on a Managed Great Britain Set (MGBS). If you have ordered your national coverage via the online ordering system using a polygon outline, then your counts may differ.
Change-Only Updates are not available for the OS Open UPRN product.
| Product | MGBS Full Count | National AOI Full Count | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Change Type | Count |
|---|---|
| Change Type | Count |
|---|---|
| AddressBase Premium Table | Inserts | Updates | Deletes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Data Source | Date |
|---|---|
| Data Source | Records Received | % Matched |
|---|---|---|
OS OpenUPRN
40 909 714
N/A
AddressBase
30 552 484
137 772
AddressBase Plus
38 156 204
677 294
AddressBase Premium
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Street
1 509 895
5 780
Street Descriptor
1 633 461
2 501
BLPU
40 909 714
355 256
Classification
44 758 076
125 856
LPI
46 089 180
182 176
Organisation
1 422 866
14 505
Delivery Point Address
30 659 580
54 376
Application Cross Ref.
198 307 242
735 178
Successor
0
0
AddressBase
30 552 484
30 552 484
0
AddressBase Plus
38 156 204
38 156 184
20
AddressBase Premium
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Street
1 509 895
1 509 892
3
Street Descriptor
1 633 461
1 633 458
3
BLPU
40 909 714
40 909 690
24
Classification
44 758 076
44 758 052
24
LPI
46 089 180
46 089 155
25
Organisation
1 422 866
1 422 864
2
Delivery Point Address
30 659 580
30 659 580
0
Application Cross Ref.
198 307 242
198 307 218
24
Successor
0
0
0
Inserts
32 275
Updates
96 919
Deletes
8 578
COU Populated Tile Count
5 003
Inserts
43 451
Updates
621 151
Deletes
12 692
COU Populated Tile Count
7 088
Street
1 264
4 501
15
Street Descriptor
1 484
999
18
BLPU
39 273
312 858
3 125
Classification
47 617
59 927
18 312
LPI
51 254
127 306
3 616
Organisation
5 675
4 479
4 351
Delivery Point Address
32 839
13 224
8 313
Application Cross Ref.
183 150
520 267
31 761
Royal Mail PAF
22 August 2024
National Land and Property Gazetteer
22 August 2024
One Scotland Gazetteer
05 August 2024
VOA Non-Domestic Rates
19 August 2024
VOA Council Tax
19 August 2024
OS MasterMap Topography Layer
13 August 2024
OS MasterMap Highways Network
06 August 2024
Code-Point with Polygons
01 July 2024
Boundary-Line
24 June 2024
Council tax
27 145 616
99.92
Non-domestic rates
2 122 260
96.47
It is important that COUs are processed with Deletes first, then Inserts and Updates; this is to ensure that updates are applied in the correct order. Guidance on this can be found in the Working with COU data page in the Getting Started Guides for AddressBase, AddressBase Plus and AddressBase Plus Islands.