National Change of Address

(UK specific)= The NCOA (National Change of Address) dataset is sourced from the Royal Mail's redirection service. As the service is paid for by the end-user, the quality of data is extremely high.

There are over 11 million records in the NCOA file, and it is growing by 1.2 million every year.

Customers using NCOA will be able to retrieve the forwarding address of the goneaway

On average 11% of UK's population move every year, that equals 18,000 a day. Royal Mail state that around 50% of movers take up the NCOA service