LAU2 to NUTS1: UK Administrative Geography Lookup Table (May 2015)

A lookup table mapping UK administrative geography codes from Local Administrative Units (LAU2) up to Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS1) levels, as defined in May 2015. The Office for National Statistics created this dataset, which was last updated on the platform on 2026-07-08. It is published under the OGL-UK-3.0 license.

Use Cases

• Aggregating local-level data to higher regional levels based on the hierarchical code mappings.
• Joining datasets that use different UK administrative geography coding systems.
• Validating the consistency of geographic identifiers in other UK datasets.
• Creating visualizations of UK data at various administrative resolutions.

Strengths

• Published by the authoritative Office for National Statistics.
• Provides a specific snapshot from May 2015, useful for historical analysis.
• Released under the permissive OGL-UK-3.0 license.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Office for National Statistics

Time Range

Snapshot from May 2015

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:33:22.146531; freshness should be verified.

Geography

United Kingdom