Mexican Postal Data

Features & Data Elements

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• Immediate Download

  Download is available immediately upon purchase and for the duration of the annual subscription.

• Monthly Updates

  We update our data as changes become available. We recommend you download the latest on a monthly or quarterly basis.

• Free FTP (optional)

  For customers requiring access to data programmatically, we provide an FTP location populated with their active subscriptions. This is an optional feature available upon request.

• Multi-Cities per Postal Code

  If a Postal Code boundary covers more than one city, each city is listed as a separate record.

• Data Format - CSV

  Comma-Separated Values (CSV) Text File

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• Postal Code

  The Mexican postal code is a 5-digit integer, similar to the U.S. ZIP Code.

• State Code

  State Abbreviation - can be from 2‐4 characters long

• Type Code

  Type Code - Abbreviation for District Type: COL (Colonia), UHAB (Unidad Habitacional), etc.

• Place Name

  Place Names (towns or neighborhoods) - up to 60 characters long

• Municipality Name

  This is a region within a state or a division in a large city. For instance, Mexico City has 16 delegations: Alvaro Obregon, Benito Juarez, etc.

• Major City Name

  If postal code is part of a main city, it’s listed here. Rural areas do not have anything in this field. This can be up to 40 characters.

• Sequence Number

  A unique number we created to easily differentiate the many Place Names within a postal code. A single postal code can have dozens of place names.

• Latitude (high precision)

  Lat/Lon: The format for Latitude is: 99.999999 and the format for Longitude is: ‐999.999999.  Note that west longitudes (all of the Mexico locations), contain a negative number.

• Longitude (high precision)

  Lat/Lon: The format for Latitude is: 99.999999 and the format for Longitude is: ‐999.999999.  Note that west longitudes (all of the Mexico locations), contain a negative number.