UK Local Administrative Units Level 1 Names and Codes for January 2012

Local Administrative Units Level 1 names and codes for the United Kingdom as of January 2012. The dataset is provided by the Office for National Statistics under the OGL-UK-3.0 license. It was last updated on the platform on July 8, —2026.

Use Cases

• Geocode UK addresses based on administrative unit codes.
• Join demographic or economic data to LAU1 regions for spatial analysis.
• Validate or standardize UK location names against official codes.
• Create maps of UK administrative boundaries at the local unit level.

Strengths

• Official source from the UK's Office for National Statistics.
• Specific temporal snapshot for January 2012.
• License is OGL-UK-3.0, permitting open use.

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.
• Data may reflect geographic/temporal bias inherent to the uk_data source and the 2012 snapshot.

Provenance

Source

Office for National Statistics

Collection Method

Likely an official government compilation.

Time Range

January 2012

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:32:19.505960; freshness should be verified.

Geography

United Kingdom