Ward to Registration District to Local Authority District (December 2015) Lookup in Englan

Office for National Statistics provides a lookup table mapping administrative boundaries in England and Wales as of December 2015. The dataset links electoral wards to registration districts and local authority districts. It was last updated on the platform in July 2026.

Use Cases

• Aggregating or disaggregating statistics based on the hierarchical administrative geography described.
• Joining datasets that use different UK geographic coding systems based on the lookup relationships.
• Analyzing changes in administrative boundaries over time when compared with other vintages of this lookup.
• Mapping data from one administrative level (e.g., ward) to another (e.g., local authority district).

Strengths

• Produced by the Office for National Statistics, the UK's official statistical institute.
• Provides a specific snapshot from December 2015, allowing for temporal analysis.
• License is OGL-UK-3.0, permitting open use and reuse.

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.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Office for National Statistics

Collection Method

Likely compiled from official UK geographic boundary registers.

Time Range

December 2015

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:33:19.895616; freshness should be verified

Geography

England and Wales