NUTS Level 1 Super Generalised Clipped 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 includes five boundary versions, from full resolution to ultra generalised, and is provided by the Office for National Statistics. It contains both Ordnance Survey and ONS Intellectual Property Rights.

Use Cases

• Create regional choropleth maps based on NUTS1 boundaries.
• Perform spatial joins with other datasets using the provided boundary geometries.
• Generate simplified, performance-optimized maps for web applications using the super generalised (200m) or ultra generalised (500m) versions.
• Analyze administrative geography and regional statistics for England and Wales.

Strengths

• Offers five distinct boundary resolutions, from full (8-14 MB) to ultra generalised (69 KB), enabling use-case-specific trade-offs between detail and performance.
• Specific snapshot date of 1 January 2015 provides a consistent temporal reference for analysis.
• Contains explicit Intellectual Property Rights information from Ordnance Survey and ONS.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data is a static snapshot from 2015; boundaries may have changed since.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Office for National Statistics

Time Range

January 2015

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:33:28.734417; freshness should be verified.

Geography

England and Wales