Built-up Area to Subdivision Lookup for England and Wales, March 2011

Office for National Statistics provides a lookup table linking built-up areas to their subdivisions in England and Wales. The data snapshot is from March 2011. The dataset is licensed under the OGL-UK-3.0 open government license.

Use Cases

• Map built-up area administrative hierarchies based on the 2011 geography.
• Join census data using built-up area subdivision codes likely present in the lookup.
• Analyze the spatial composition of urban areas in England and Wales based on the described relationships.

Strengths

• Published by the Office for National Statistics, a key UK government statistical authority.
• Has a specific temporal reference point of March 2011.
• Released under the permissive OGL-UK-3.0 license.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data is from 2011 and may not reflect current administrative boundaries.

Provenance

Source

Office for National Statistics

Time Range

March 2011

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:31:08.165960; freshness should be verified.

Geography

England and Wales