Urban Audit to Local Authority District Lookup for Great Britain, 2011

Great Britain's administrative geography is mapped in this lookup table linking Urban Audit Core Cities, Greater Cities, Functional Urban Areas, and Local Authority Districts. The Office for National Statistics produced this dataset, which was last updated on 2026-07-08. It is a 20 KB HTML file published under the OGL-UK-3.0 license.

Use Cases

• Link socio-economic data to different urban area definitions based on the described lookup relationships.
• Standardize geographic identifiers for cross-dataset analysis using the Urban Audit hierarchy.
• Map administrative boundaries for Great Britain using the described geospatial lookup structure.
• Analyze urban-rural linkages by joining data across the Functional Urban Area and Local Authority District levels.

Strengths

• Published by the authoritative Office for National Statistics.
• File size is explicitly stated as 20 KB, indicating a manageable download.
• Last update timestamp is precisely recorded as 2026-07-08 13:31:37.129254.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data is specific to a December 2011 snapshot; freshness should be verified for current applications.

Provenance

Source

Office for National Statistics

Time Range

December 2011

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:31:37.129254

Geography

Great Britain