Registration Districts in England and Wales with Clipped Boundaries, December 2015

Digital vector boundaries for registration districts in England and Wales as of December 2015. The dataset contains four boundary variants, including full-resolution and generalised versions, and is provided by the Office for National Statistics. It was last updated on the platform on July 8, 2026.

Use Cases

• Create thematic maps based on registration district boundaries.
• Perform spatial joins with demographic data using the provided vector boundaries.
• Generate simplified visualizations using the 20m or 200m generalised coastline-clipped boundaries.
• Serve boundary data via web mapping services using the provided ArcGIS REST endpoints.

Strengths

• Contains four specific boundary variants, including full-resolution and generalised (20m, 200m) versions.
• Provides direct download links for multiple file formats (GEOJSON, CSV, KML, ZIP) and access to ArcGIS REST services.
• Explicitly states the temporal snapshot (December 2015) for the boundaries.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The row count and total dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to the UK administrative system.

Provenance

Source

Office for National Statistics

Time Range

December 2015

Freshness

The data snapshot is from December 2015; the platform metadata was updated on 2026-07-08.

Geography

England and Wales