Community Safety Partnerships Boundaries in England and Wales, December 2016

Office for National Statistics provides digital vector boundaries for Community Safety Partnerships in England and Wales, as at December 2016. The dataset contains five versions of the boundaries with different resolutions and clipping methods, ranging from 23 MB to 216 KB in file size. It contains both Ordnance Survey and ONS Intellectual Property Rights.

Use Cases

• Mapping community safety partnership jurisdictions based on the provided vector boundaries.
• Analyzing spatial relationships between safety partnerships and other administrative units based on the clipped coastline versions.
• Creating simplified visualizations for reports using the generalised (20m, 200m, or 500m) boundary versions.
• Integrating partnership boundaries into geographic information systems (GIS) for multi-layer analysis.

Strengths

• Provides five distinct boundary versions (full, clipped, and three levels of generalization) for different use cases.
• Specific file sizes are listed for each version, ranging from 23 MB to 216 KB.
• Contains authoritative intellectual property from Ordnance Survey and the Office for National Statistics.

Limitations

• Data is from December 2016; boundaries may not reflect current administrative divisions.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The description does not specify the number of individual partnership boundaries contained.

Provenance

Source

Office for National Statistics

Collection Method

Digital vector boundaries, likely derived from official administrative sources.

Time Range

December 2016

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:32:04.684380; freshness should be verified.

Geography

England and Wales