MSOA to Ward Lookup: Geographic Area Mapping for England and Wales

Office for National Statistics provides a lookup table linking Middle Layer Super Output Areas (2011) to Wards (2015) in England and Wales. The dataset is published under the OGL-UK-3.0 license and was last updated on 2026-07-08. It likely contains codes and names for these geographic hierarchies to enable cross-referencing and aggregation of statistics.

Use Cases

• Aggregating census data from MSOA to Ward level based on the described geographic lookup relationship.
• Analyzing demographic changes over time by linking 2011 and 2015 geographic boundaries mentioned in the title.
• Creating consistent geographic joins for policy analysis across different UK government datasets.
• Validating the spatial consistency of socio-economic indicators for England and Wales.

Strengths

• Published by the authoritative Office for National Statistics.
• Has a specific last updated timestamp of 2026-07-08 13:31:22.045034.
• Released under the permissive OGL-UK-3.0 license for reuse.

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

Time Range

References 2011 MSOA and 2015 Ward boundaries.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:31:22.045034; freshness should be verified.

Geography

England and Wales