UK Travel to Work Areas: Super Generalised Clipped Boundaries from December 2011

Travel to Work Areas (TTWAs) are digital vector boundaries for the United Kingdom as of December 2011. The dataset contains multiple resolution versions, including super generalised (200m) boundaries clipped to the coastline. It is published by the Office for National Statistics and contains Ordnance Survey intellectual property.

Use Cases

• Visualizing UK commuting zones based on the super generalised (200m) boundaries.
• Aggregating socio-economic statistics to Travel to Work Areas for regional analysis.
• Creating simplified (generalised) map layers for web mapping applications.

Strengths

• Provides five distinct boundary resolutions, from full (68 MB) to ultra generalised (382 KB), for different use cases.
• Includes direct REST service URLs for programmatic access and download.
• Contains boundaries for the full extent of the realm and versions clipped to the coastline.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data is from December 2011 and may not reflect current travel patterns.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Office for National Statistics

Time Range

December 2011

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:33:25.551251; freshness should be verified.

Geography

United Kingdom