NUTS Level 3 Boundaries for England and Wales, January 2015

January 2015 digital vector boundaries for Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics level 3 (NUTS3) areas in England and Wales. The dataset contains five boundary variants at different resolutions and clipping extents, provided by the Office for National Statistics. It was last updated on the platform on 2026-07-08.

Use Cases

• Create regional economic or demographic maps based on the standardized NUTS3 geography.
• Perform spatial joins with other datasets using the provided vector boundaries.
• Optimize map rendering performance by selecting an appropriate generalised boundary version.
• Analyze coastal vs. full-extent administrative areas using the different clipping options.

Strengths

• Offers five distinct boundary variants, including full-extent and coastline-clipped versions.
• Provides file sizes for each variant, ranging from 138 KB to 23 MB, indicating manageable download sizes.
• Contains intellectual property from both Ordnance Survey and the Office for National Statistics, suggesting authoritative source data.

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 January 2015 and may not represent current boundaries.

Provenance

Source

Office for National Statistics

Time Range

January 2015

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:32:55.205550; freshness should be verified.

Geography

England and Wales