UK Travel to Work Areas Boundaries from December 2011 Census

Travel to Work Areas (December 2011) Full Extent Boundaries in United Kingdom contains digital vector boundaries for UK Travel to Work Areas as of December 2011. The dataset is provided by the Office for National Statistics and contains five boundary versions at different resolutions and clipping levels. It includes Ordnance Survey and ONS Intellectual Property Rights and is available via multiple ArcGIS REST services.

Use Cases

• Mapping commuting zones for economic analysis based on the defined Travel to Work Areas.
• Performing spatial joins with census data based on the provided vector boundaries.
• Creating simplified maps for visualization using the generalised (20m, 200m, 500m) boundary versions.
• Analyzing coastal and offshore administrative extents based on the full-resolution realm boundaries.

Strengths

• Provides five specific boundary versions, including full resolution and multiple generalised (20m, 200m, 500m) options.
• Includes explicit file sizes for each version, ranging from 382 KB to 68 MB.
• Contains intellectual property from both Ordnance Survey and the Office for National Statistics.

Limitations

• Data is from December 2011; demographic and commuting patterns may have changed.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.

Provenance

Source

Office for National Statistics

Collection Method

Likely derived from UK census and administrative geography processes.

Time Range

December 2011

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:33:17.754482; freshness should be verified

Geography

United Kingdom