UK Local Administrative Units Level 2 Names and Codes, December 2013

Office for National Statistics provides a list of names and codes for Local Administrative Units (LAU) Level 2 in the United Kingdom, as of December 2013. The dataset is published under the OGL-UK-3.0 license and was last updated on the platform in July 2026. The description suggests it likely contains identifiers and names for sub-national administrative divisions.

Use Cases

• Geocoding and mapping UK administrative boundaries based on the LAU Level 2 classification mentioned in the title.
• Joining socio-economic datasets using the standardized administrative unit codes referenced in the description.
• Analyzing the structure of UK local government units from the 2013 snapshot indicated by the title.

Strengths

• Published by the authoritative Office for National Statistics.
• Has a specific temporal snapshot (December 2013) for consistent reference.
• 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

December 2013

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:31:06.502095; freshness should be verified.

Geography

United Kingdom