Local Authority Districts (December 2021) Boundaries EW BFE and Rural Urban Classification

England and Wales digital vector boundaries for Local Authority Districts as of December 2021. The dataset is joined to the 2021 Rural-Urban Classification, a product developed by the Office for National Statistics, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, and the Welsh Assembly Government. Source data is from the Office for National Statistics and contains OS data © Crown copyright 2025.

Use Cases

• Mapping administrative regions based on the provided digital vector boundaries.
• Analyzing rural-urban population distribution using the joined classification data.
• Spatial joins for socio-economic indicators at the Local Authority District level.

Strengths

• Boundaries are current as of a specific date (December 2021).
• Includes the official 2021 Rural-Urban Classification from UK government statistical services.
• Source is the authoritative Office for National Statistics under an Open Government Licence.

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, licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0.

Collection Method

Government statistical product developed by ONS, Defra, and Welsh Assembly Government.

Time Range

Boundaries as of December 2021; classification data for 2021.

Freshness

Last updated 2025-04-04 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.

Geography

England and Wales.