UK Ward to Local Authority District Lookup for December 2014

A December 2014 lookup table mapping UK wards to their corresponding Local Authority Districts, published by the Office for National Statistics. The file is available under an OGL-UK-3.0 license and was last updated on the platform in July 2026.

Use Cases

• Aggregating ward-level statistics to Local Authority District level based on the mapping relationship.
• Validating or standardizing geographic identifiers in datasets from 2014 based on the administrative boundaries.
• Performing spatial joins between datasets using ward and district codes mentioned in the description.

Strengths

• Published by the authoritative Office for National Statistics.
• Released under the permissive OGL-UK-3.0 license.
• Provides a specific snapshot of administrative geography for December 2014.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The data reflects a specific 2014 boundary set and may not reflect subsequent changes.

Provenance

Source

Office for National Statistics

Collection Method

Likely compiled from official UK administrative boundary registers.

Time Range

December 2014

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:32:16.498689; freshness should be verified.

Geography

United Kingdom