England Local Authority District to Region Lookup for December 2015

Office for National Statistics provides a lookup table mapping Local Authority Districts to Regions in England as of December 2015. The dataset is licensed under the Open Government Licence (OGL-UK-3.0). It was last updated on the platform on 2026-07-08.

Use Cases

• Aggregating local-level statistics to regional summaries based on the administrative hierarchy.
• Joining datasets using Local Authority District codes to append region identifiers.
• Validating the geographic consistency of other datasets against the December 2015 administrative boundaries.

Strengths

• Published by the authoritative Office for National Statistics.
• Licensed under the permissive OGL-UK-3.0 for reuse.
• Provides a specific snapshot of administrative geography for December 2015.

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.
• The data reflects a specific point in time (December 2015) and may not reflect subsequent boundary changes.

Provenance

Source

Office for National Statistics

Collection Method

Likely compiled from official government administrative records.

Time Range

December 2015

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:32:01.680231; freshness should be verified

Geography

England