UK Local Authority to NUTS Statistical Area Lookup Table (2013-2015)

A 49 KB lookup table published by the Office for National Statistics. It maps UK Local Authority Districts from December 2013 to the NUTS1, NUTS2, and NUTS3 statistical geographies as defined in January 2015. The dataset was last updated on the platform on July 8, 2026.

Use Cases

• Aggregating local economic indicators to NUTS2 regions based on the mapping from Local Authority Districts.
• Joining public health data from different sources using the common NUTS3 codes provided in the lookup.
• Analyzing longitudinal data by converting older Local Authority codes to consistent NUTS1 regions for time-series comparison.
• Validating the geographic hierarchy of UK datasets by checking the parent-child relationships between NUTS levels.

Strengths

• Published by the authoritative Office for National Statistics, the UK's national statistical institute.
• File size is explicitly stated as 49 KB, indicating a manageable and likely well-structured table.
• Provides a specific temporal crosswalk between the December 2013 Local Authority geography and the January 2015 NUTS definitions.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale joins.
• Freshness should be verified; the underlying geographic definitions are from 2013-2015, though the metadata was updated in 2026.

Provenance

Source

Office for National Statistics

Collection Method

Likely an official administrative compilation for statistical reporting.

Time Range

Crosswalk between December 2013 and January 2015 geographies.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:32:07.597256; underlying data references 2013-2015 geographies.

Geography

United Kingdom