NUTS Level 2 Boundaries for England and Wales, January 2015

Office for National Statistics provides digital vector boundaries for Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics level 2 (NUTS2) areas in England and Wales as of 1 January 2015. The dataset includes five boundary versions at different resolutions, from full extent to ultra-generalized. It contains both Ordnance Survey and ONS Intellectual Property Rights.

Use Cases

• Create regional maps for policy analysis based on NUTS2 administrative boundaries.
• Perform spatial joins with economic or demographic data using the provided boundary geometries.
• Generate simplified base maps for web applications using the generalized (20m, 200m, 500m) boundary files.

Strengths

• Provides five distinct boundary versions, including full resolution (12-17 MB) and three generalized versions (2 MB to 92 KB).
• Boundaries are temporally specific, representing the administrative geography as of 1 January 2015.

Limitations

• 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 13:31:02.466953; freshness should be verified.

Geography

England and Wales