Clinical Commissioning Groups Boundaries for England, July 2015

Five versions of digital vector boundaries for Clinical Commissioning Groups in England are available, including full-resolution and four generalised versions clipped to the coastline. This dataset, created by the Office for National Statistics, contains Ordnance Survey and ONS intellectual property rights. The boundaries are coterminous with Lower Layer Super Output Areas.

Use Cases

• Mapping healthcare service areas based on the provided vector boundaries.
• Analyzing spatial relationships with other datasets using the coterminous LSOA boundaries mentioned in the description.
• Creating visualizations at different scales using the five available generalisation levels (20m to 500m).
• Performing coastal analysis using the boundaries clipped to the Mean High Water mark.

Strengths

• Provides five distinct boundary versions for different use cases, from 32 MB full-resolution to 184 KB ultra-generalised.
• Includes specific download file sizes for each version, aiding in resource planning.
• Boundaries are explicitly coterminous with Lower Layer Super Output Areas (LSOAs), facilitating joins.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data is from a single snapshot in July 2015, which may not reflect current administrative boundaries.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale analysis.

Provenance

Source

Office for National Statistics

Collection Method

Digital vector boundaries derived from administrative sources.

Time Range

July 2015

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:32:29.029714; freshness should be verified as the underlying data is from 2015.

Geography

England