Middle Layer Super Output Areas: Population Weighted Centroids for England and Wales, 2001

Digital population weighted centroids for Middle Layer Super Output Areas in England and Wales, as at 31 December 2001. The dataset is provided by the Office for National Statistics and contains both Ordnance Survey and ONS Intellectual Property Rights. It is available in formats including GEOJSON, CSV, and KML.

Use Cases

• Calculate average population location for administrative areas based on the weighted centroids.
• Perform spatial joins with other census data using the provided geographic points.
• Visualize the distribution of Middle Layer Super Output Areas on a map using the centroid coordinates.

Strengths

• Centroids are population-weighted, which likely provides a more accurate representation of population location than geometric centroids.
• Data is sourced from authoritative institutions: the Office for National Statistics and Ordnance Survey.

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.
• Data reflects a specific snapshot from 31 December 2001, limiting temporal analysis.

Provenance

Source

Office for National Statistics

Time Range

As at 31 December 2001

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:31:39.429718; freshness should be verified.

Geography

England and Wales