UK Administrative Geography Lookup Table for Wards, Districts, Counties, and Regions

A 907 KB lookup table published by the Office for National Statistics. It maps UK wards to higher-level administrative units including Local Authority Districts, counties, regions, and countries as of December 2014. The dataset is licensed under OGL-UK-3.0 and was last updated on the platform in July 2026.

Use Cases

• Aggregating ward-level statistics to county or regional levels based on the hierarchical mapping.
• Joining datasets using administrative unit codes based on the lookup relationships described.
• Validating or standardizing UK geographic identifiers in other datasets based on the official 2014 boundaries.
• Analyzing regional patterns by grouping data into consistent higher-level units based on the defined hierarchy.

Strengths

• Published by the authoritative Office for National Statistics.
• Provides a clear hierarchical mapping across five administrative levels.
• File size of 907 KB suggests a manageable, likely complete table.

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.
• Based on boundaries from December 2014, which may be outdated for current analyses.

Provenance

Source

Office for National Statistics

Collection Method

Likely compiled from official UK government geographic definitions.

Time Range

December 2014

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:32:07.279892; freshness should be verified.

Geography

United Kingdom