UK Local Authority District Boundaries (December 2019)

40 MB of digital vector boundaries for Local Authority Districts in the United Kingdom, as of 31 December 2019. The dataset provides full-resolution boundaries clipped to the coastline and contains Ordnance Survey and Office for National Statistics intellectual property. It includes fields for geometry length and area, measured in metres and square metres respectively.

Use Cases

• Mapping administrative regions based on the full-resolution vector boundaries.
• Calculating area and perimeter statistics using the `st_area` and `st_length` fields.
• Integrating with other UK socio-economic data using the consistent 2019 Local Authority District geography.
• Serving boundary data via web services using the provided ArcGIS REST API endpoint.

Strengths

• Provides a specific snapshot of UK administrative geography as of 31 December 2019.
• Contains boundaries at full cartographic resolution, clipped to the Mean High Water coastline mark.
• Is available on multiple data platforms (uk_data, eu_open_data), indicating its importance and reliability.

Limitations

• Key metadata such as row count, specific column names, and license details are not provided in the available sources.
• The 'last updated' metadata field shows a conflict, with one source listing a future date (2026-07-08) and another a past date (2023-03-21), casting doubt on its accuracy.

Provenance

Source

Office for National Statistics (UK), incorporating Ordnance Survey intellectual property.

Collection Method

Likely digitized and maintained by the UK's national mapping and statistics agencies.

Time Range

2019-12-31 (single snapshot)

Freshness

The data represents boundaries as of 31 December 2019. Platform metadata on last update is conflicting.

Geography

United Kingdom (Local Authority Districts)