NUTS Level 1 Boundaries for England and Wales, January 2015

January 2015 digital vector boundaries for Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS) level 1 areas in England and Wales. The dataset is provided by the Office for National Statistics and contains five boundary resolutions, from full extent to ultra generalised (500m). It contains both Ordnance Survey and ONS Intellectual Property Rights.

Use Cases

• Map regional economic indicators based on the NUTS1 administrative framework.
• Perform spatial joins with other UK datasets based on the provided boundary geometries.
• Create generalised visualisations for reports using the super generalised (200m) or ultra generalised (500m) boundaries.
• Analyse coastal administrative extents using the full resolution boundaries clipped to the Mean High Water mark.

Strengths

• Provides five distinct boundary resolutions, including full extent and four coastline-clipped versions.
• Specific file sizes are listed for each resolution, ranging from 69 KB to 14 MB.
• Boundaries are explicitly dated as of 1 January 2015, providing a fixed temporal snapshot.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data is from 2015 and may not reflect subsequent boundary changes; freshness should be verified.
• Spatial coverage is limited to England and Wales, excluding Scotland and Northern Ireland.

Provenance

Source

Office for National Statistics

Collection Method

Official digital vector boundaries derived from Ordnance Survey data.

Time Range

January 2015

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:31:46.653020; freshness should be verified.

Geography

England and Wales