Lower Layer Super Output Area to Major Towns and Cities Lookup for England and Wales

A 1 MB lookup table published by the Office for National Statistics, last updated on 2026-07-08. This dataset maps Lower Layer Super Output Areas from the 2001 census to Major Towns and Cities boundaries as defined in December 2015. It is available under the OGL-UK-3.0 license.

Use Cases

• Aggregating census data from LSOAs to major urban areas based on the 2015 boundaries.
• Analyzing urban-rural disparities by linking small-area statistics to city classifications.
• Creating choropleth maps for towns and cities using data originally collected at the LSOA level.

Strengths

• Published by the authoritative Office for National Statistics.
• File size of 1 MB suggests a manageable, focused dataset.
• Specific temporal references for both source (2001) and target (2015) geographies.

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 bias inherent to uk_data.

Provenance

Source

Office for National Statistics

Time Range

Source geography from 2001, target classification from December 2015.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:31:07.595374; freshness should be verified.

Geography

England and Wales