Office for National Statistics provides a lookup table linking built-up areas to local authority districts in England and Wales. The dataset is based on the administrative geography as of December 2011. It was last updated on the platform on 2026-07-08.
Use Cases
- Aggregate local-level statistics to built-up areas based on the lookup relationship.
- Analyze urban development patterns by linking built-up areas to their governing districts.
- Standardize geographic data from different sources using the 2011 administrative framework.
Strengths
- Published by the Office for National Statistics, a key official source for UK statistics.
- Provides a specific snapshot of administrative geography as of December 2011.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Data may reflect geographic and temporal bias inherent to the 2011 snapshot.
Provenance
- Source
- Office for National Statistics
- Time Range
- December 2011 snapshot
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-07-08 13:33:26.365742; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- England and Wales