As Eircode celebrates its third birthday on 13th July we review the two most common Eircode questions: how often is it used, and who is using it? Our customers made over 100 million Eircode address lookups in the past year. The vast majority of these are via our real-time address capture control deployed on Customer websites. This compares with 35 million in the prior 12 month period, a year-on-year increase of 188% Our mobile app continues to go from strength to strength, used regularly by twelve thousand courier/delivery drivers every month
There was an increase of 3,867 residential units in the first quarter, with a further 9,266 under construction. This compares with 3,452 new residential units in the same quarter last year (increase of 12%) and 5,875 under construction (increase of 57.7%). The good news is there is a marked increase in construction activity, the bad news is that it has yet to translate into a marked increase in available residential units.
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We have analysed the Eircode Address Database (Quarter 4 2017) to establish the increase in total residential units in Ireland in 2017. There was an increase of 4,372 residential addresses from October to December. The full year increase in residential units for 2017 was 16,047, with a further 8,158 under construction. This compares with figures of 14,889 and 5,387 for 2016, an increase of 7.8% in new residential units with a 51% increase in units under construction. The breakdown by County...
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One of the most useful tables in the Eircode Address Database is the ADMINISTRATIVE_INFO table. You can determine if a building is in a Gaeltacht area, or what Local Authority its in. Most usefully you can use it to link to the Census to get information at Electoral Division and Small Area level. We have incorporated the latest data that provides compatibility with Census 2016, you'll need to make a minor change to how you call our API to upgrade to the latest data. When Eircode was launched the latest Census was 2011. Census 2016 has been released and Eircode have added fields to the latest ADMINISTRATIVE_INFO table to return both the original administrative data related to Census 2011 and updated data provided by Ordnance Survey that relates to Census 2016. As described in the Eircode Product Guide and Release Notes for Q317 the existing fields have been overwritten with the new 2017 data. The previous data is now stored in separate columns with _2015_ added to the column name. This is a major change, but it was well flagged in the Q217 release notes by Eircode.
We have run queries against the Eircode Address Database (Quarter 3 2017) to establish the increase in total residential units in Ireland in 2017. There was an increase of 4,642 residential addresses between July and September. This brings the year-to-date increase in residential units for 2017 to 11,675, with a further 7,074 under construction. This compares with figures of 10,410 and 5,226 for the equivalent period in 2016, an increase of 12% in new residential units with a 35% increase in units under construction. The breakdown by County...
Can we use the Eircode database to establish the increase in residential units in Ireland in 2016? While it is obvious that building a new apartment block will increase the number, it is less obvious that a change of building use from residential to commercial or from a number of flats to a single residence will decrease the overall housing stock. To arrive at our figure we calculated the increase in residential addresses at the end of 2016 compared to the end of 2015, excluding all properties marked as under construction
How to Simplify the Tricky Parts of Buying Online – Optimising the eCommerce Checkout
Even though retail eCommerce sales continue to rise and are expected to show solid gains in 2017, the rate of eCommerce growth is declining. As eCommerce and mCommerce (mobile commerce) are experiencing high rates of cart abandonment, companies are having to think about simplifying online purchase processes.
Two years already? Eircode was launched on 13th July 2015, and as its second birthday approaches this blog provides an update on Eircode usage by our customers. Which industries use Eircode the most? This table gives the top industry users of our API ranked by number of API calls.