NUTS Level 1 Boundaries for England and Wales, 2015

January 2015 digital vector boundaries for NUTS Level 1 regions in England and Wales, provided by the Office for National Statistics. The dataset includes five boundary variants, from full resolution to ultra generalised, each clipped to the coastline. It contains Ordnance Survey and ONS Intellectual Property Rights.

Use Cases

• Create regional choropleth maps based on NUTS1 administrative boundaries.
• Perform spatial joins with socio-economic data using the generalised (20m) boundaries for faster processing.
• Visualize coastal boundaries for environmental or planning studies using the coastline-clipped versions.

Strengths

• Provides five distinct boundary resolutions, from 8 MB full resolution to 69 KB ultra generalised, catering to different performance needs.
• Explicitly states the snapshot date (1 January 2015) for the boundaries.
• Includes direct REST API URLs for programmatic access and download.

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 may reflect geographic bias inherent to uk_data, covering only England and Wales.

Provenance

Source

Office for National Statistics

Time Range

2015-01-01

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:33:26.248230; freshness should be verified.

Geography

England and Wales