Lower layer Super Output Areas (December 2021) Boundaries EW BFE (V10) and Rural Urban Cla
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Description
Lower layer Super Output Areas (December 2021) Boundaries EW BFE (V10) and Rural Urban Classification data 2021 contains digital vector boundaries for Lower layer Super Output Areas in England and Wales, as of 21 March 2021. The data is joined to the 2021 Rural-Urban Classification, a Government Statistical Service product developed by the Office for National Statistics, Defra, and the Welsh Assembly Government. The source is the Office for National Statistics, licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0.
Use Cases
Mapping socioeconomic indicators based on the standardized Lower layer Super Output Area (LSOA) geography.
Analyzing urban-rural divides and planning service delivery based on the joined Rural-Urban Classification.
Creating choropleth maps for public health or crime statistics using the provided vector boundaries.
Conducting spatial joins with other datasets using the LSOA boundary geometry.
Strengths
Includes official government statistical boundaries for England and Wales as of a specific date (21 March 2021).
Pre-joined with the 2021 Rural-Urban Classification, providing an immediate contextual variable.
Sourced from authoritative bodies: the Office for National Statistics, Defra, and the Welsh Assembly Government.
Limitations
Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale analysis.
Provenance
Source
Office for National Statistics
Collection Method
Government statistical production.
Time Range
Boundaries as at 21 March 2021.
Freshness
Last updated 2025-04-04 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.