Community Safety Partnership Boundaries for England and Wales, December 2016

Office for National Statistics provides digital vector boundaries for Community Safety Partnerships in England and Wales, as of December 2016. The dataset includes multiple boundary resolutions, from full extent to ultra generalised (500m), with file sizes ranging from 216 KB to 28 MB. It contains Ordnance Survey and ONS Intellectual Property Rights and is available via ArcGIS REST services.

Use Cases

• Mapping community safety partnership jurisdictions based on the provided vector boundaries.
• Analyzing jurisdictional overlaps with coastal features using the coastline-clipped boundary versions.
• Creating simplified maps for public reports using the generalised (20m, 200m, 500m) boundary layers.
• Integrating partnership boundaries with other administrative datasets for spatial analysis.

Strengths

• Provides five distinct boundary resolutions, including full extent and four coastline-clipped versions.
• Specific file sizes are listed for each resolution, ranging from 216 KB to 28 MB.
• Contains intellectual property from two authoritative sources: Ordnance Survey and ONS.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Data represents a single snapshot from December 2016; freshness should be verified for current applications.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.

Provenance

Source

Office for National Statistics

Collection Method

Likely digitized from official administrative records.

Time Range

December 2016

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:33:22.892333; freshness should be verified.

Geography

England and Wales