England Local Authority District to County Lookup Table for December 2015

Office for National Statistics provides a lookup table mapping local authority districts to counties in England as of December 2015. The dataset is published under the OGL-UK-3.0 license and was last updated on the platform in July 2026. Its specific file size is 14 KB.

Use Cases

• Aggregate local-level statistics to county-level summaries based on the administrative hierarchy.
• Join datasets using local authority district codes by mapping them to consistent county codes.
• Validate or standardize geographic references in other datasets using the official 2015 boundaries.
• Analyze changes in administrative boundaries over time by comparing this snapshot with others.

Strengths

• Official source from the UK's Office for National Statistics.
• Clear temporal snapshot for December 2015.
• Small file size (14 KB) suggests easy integration.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect geographic and temporal bias inherent to the 2015 snapshot.

Provenance

Source

Office for National Statistics

Collection Method

Likely compiled from official UK government administrative registers.

Time Range

December 2015

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:32:02.970369; freshness should be verified.

Geography

England