York Ward Profiles for 21 Electoral Wards Using Post-2015 Boundaries

21 electoral ward profiles for the city of York contain information current up to December 2020. The Government Digital Service compiled this data under the OGL-UK-3.0 license, using ward boundaries established after the May 2015 elections.

Use Cases

• Analyze demographic patterns across electoral wards based on the ward profiles.
• Compare socio-economic indicators between different administrative boundaries based on the post-2015 ward definitions.
• Support local policy planning and resource allocation based on ward-level information.
• Study the impact of electoral boundary changes on reported statistics.

Strengths

• Data is explicitly tied to a specific legal and administrative geography using post-May 2015 election boundaries.
• Contains profiles for all 21 electoral wards within the defined geography.
• Published under the permissive OGL-UK-3.0 license for reuse.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.
• Data is provided only in PDF format, which may hinder direct computational analysis.

Provenance

Source

Government Digital Service

Collection Method

Likely compiled from official government records and statistics.

Time Range

Information up to December 2020.

Freshness

Data is current as of December 2020, but the last update date for the dataset listing is unknown.

Geography

21 electoral wards of York, UK, using post-May 2015 boundaries.