Registration Districts Boundaries for England and Wales, December 2015

Office for National Statistics provides digital vector boundaries for registration districts in England and Wales as of December 2015. The dataset contains multiple boundary versions, including full-resolution extent and coastline-clipped variants at 20m and 200m generalisation levels. It is available via ArcGIS REST services and contains Ordnance Survey and ONS Intellectual Property Rights.

Use Cases

• Mapping registration district jurisdictions based on the provided vector boundaries.
• Performing spatial analysis of demographic data aggregated to registration districts.
• Creating generalised boundary sets for web mapping based on the 20m or 200m simplified versions.
• Analyzing coastal and offshore administrative extents based on the Mean High/Low Water mark boundaries.

Strengths

• Contains multiple boundary versions (full extent, coastline-clipped, 20m generalised, 200m super generalised) for different use cases.
• Specific file sizes are provided for each variant, ranging from 455 KB to 22 MB.
• Includes both Ordnance Survey and ONS Intellectual Property Rights, clarifying data provenance.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data is from December 2015; administrative boundaries may have changed since then.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale statistical work.

Provenance

Source

Office for National Statistics

Collection Method

Likely digitized from official administrative records.

Time Range

December 2015

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:33:11.093303; freshness should be verified.

Geography

England and Wales