UK Local Authority to NUTS Geographic Lookup for January 2018

A lookup table mapping UK local authority districts (LAD) and local administrative units (LAU1) to NUTS 1, 2, and 3 statistical regions as of 1 January 2018. The dataset is provided by the Office for National Statistics and includes codes and names for each geographic level.

Use Cases

• Aggregating local economic indicators to NUTS2 regions based on the provided LAD-to-NUTS2 mapping.
• Joining public health data at the LAU1 level with regional NUTS1 datasets using the lookup codes.
• Creating visualizations of UK data at different administrative scales by leveraging the hierarchical relationships.
• Standardizing disparate datasets that use LAD codes to a common NUTS3 geography for comparative analysis.

Strengths

• Provides a clear snapshot for a specific date (1 January 2018), ensuring temporal consistency for joins.
• Includes both codes and names for five distinct geographic levels (LAD, LAU1, NUTS1, NUTS2, NUTS3).
• Published by the authoritative Office for National Statistics, suggesting official provenance.

Limitations

• Data reflects boundaries from January 2018; administrative geography may have changed since then.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale joins.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.

Provenance

Source

Office for National Statistics

Collection Method

Official administrative geography compilation

Time Range

Snapshot as of 1 January 2018

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:33:11.504056; freshness should be verified

Geography

United Kingdom