Locality is a term associated with a place or Location (geography) but may also refer to:
- Locality of reference in computer science, which describes how programs typically access data
- Principle of locality in physics
- Locality (statistics) in statistics
- Locality (linguistics) in linguistics
- The official English translation of "tätort", the term for an urban area in Sweden
- Suburbs and localities (Australia), a geographic division in rural areas used for addresses. In Geography, location is a position or point in Physical space that something occupies on Earths' surface In Computer science, locality of reference, also known as the principle of locality, is the phenomenon of the same value or related storage locations In Physics, the principle of locality is that distant objects cannot have direct influence on one another an object is influenced directly only by its immediate surroundings In Statistics, locality is Central tendency of a Data set. More frequently the word location is used In Linguistics, locality refers to the proximity of elements of a linguistic structure Urban area is a common English translation of the Swedish term tätort. Suburbs and localities are the names of geographic subdivisions in Australia mainly for Address purposes
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