UK Output Area Population Centroids for England and Wales, December 2001

December 2001 population-weighted centroids for Output Areas in England and Wales. The centroids were created using full-resolution boundaries and contain both Ordnance Survey and ONS Intellectual Property Rights. The dataset is provided by the Office for National Statistics.

Use Cases

• Map population distribution based on weighted centroids.
• Perform spatial joins between census data and other geospatial layers based on the centroid locations.
• Analyze the geographic spread of population units for England and Wales in 2001.

Strengths

• Centroids are population-weighted, which likely provides a more accurate spatial representation than geometric centroids.
• Created using full-resolution, extent of the realm boundaries.
• Contains intellectual property rights from Ordnance Survey and ONS, indicating 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 may reflect geographic/temporal bias inherent to uk_data.

Provenance

Source

Office for National Statistics

Collection Method

Created using full resolution boundaries.

Time Range

December 2001

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:33:25.743401; freshness should be verified.

Geography

England and Wales