Commercial and Industrial Property Statistics for England and Wales, 1998-2008

Administrative data from the Valuation Office Agency details non-domestic property in England and Wales from 1998 to 2008. For each 'bulk class' property type, it shows the number of premises, total floorspace, total rateable value, and rateable value per square meter. The dataset is published by Neighbourhood Statistics and aggregated at multiple geographic levels including MSOA, Local Authority District, and Government Office Region.

Use Cases

• Modeling commercial property tax revenue based on rateable value and floorspace metrics.
• Analyzing the spatial distribution of industrial and commercial property types across England and Wales.
• Benchmarking property values per square meter for different 'bulk class' categories.
• Tracking changes in the non-domestic property stock over the 1998-2008 period.

Strengths

• Data covers a defined 11-year period from 1998 to 2008.
• Provides metrics aggregated at four geographic levels: MSOA, Local Authority District, Government Office Region, and National.
• Includes multiple key property metrics: premises count, floorspace, total rateable value, and value per m².

Limitations

• Row count and file size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data may reflect temporal bias inherent to the 1998-2008 coverage period.

Provenance

Source

Valuation Office Agency (VOA)

Collection Method

Administrative data

Time Range

1998 to 2008

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:33:22.979275; freshness should be verified.

Geography

England and Wales