Ward to Local Authority District to County to Region to Country (December 2016) Lookup in

United Kingdom administrative boundaries lookup linking 9,130 wards to local authority districts, counties, regions, and countries as of 31 December 2016. The Office for National Statistics produced this version 2 dataset, which corrected duplicate ward codes present in the initial release. The data is available in multiple formats including CSV and GeoJSON.

Use Cases

• Aggregating local-level statistics to higher administrative units based on the hierarchical lookup structure.
• Validating and standardizing UK geographic codes in user data based on the official 2016 boundaries.
• Creating choropleth maps of UK regions using the provided geospatial boundary files.
• Joining socio-economic data to specific ward or district geographies using the lookup codes.

Strengths

• Contains 9,130 distinct ward records, correcting previous duplicate codes.
• Provides a snapshot of the official UK administrative hierarchy as of a specific date (31 December 2016).
• Offers data in multiple interoperable formats, including CSV and GeoJSON.

Limitations

• Row count for the main lookup table is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data reflects a 2016 snapshot; administrative boundaries may have changed since.

Provenance

Source

Office for National Statistics

Time Range

Snapshot as of 31 December 2016

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:33:23.609478; freshness should be verified.

Geography

United Kingdom