LSOA (2011) to Electoral Ward (2021) to LAD (2021) Best Fit Lookup in EW (V2)

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Dataset information

Country of origin
Updated
2025.08.11 07:53
Created
2022.08.01
Available languages
English
Keywords
2011, Local Authority Districts, LUP_BFT, LAD, LSOA, LUP_LSOA_WD, Local Authority, Wards, WD, England and Wales, Lower Layer Super Output Areas, Ward
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Dataset description

<p style='margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:10px; box-sizing:border-box; color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:Lato, &quot;Avenir Next&quot;; font-size:18px;'>This file is a best fit lookup between 2011 lower layer super output areas, electoral wards/divisions and local authority districts in England and Wales as at 31 December 2021  (File Size - 7 MB)  </p><p style='margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:10px; box-sizing:border-box; color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:Lato, &quot;Avenir Next&quot;; font-size:18px;'><br /></p><p style='margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:10px; box-sizing:border-box; color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:Lato, &quot;Avenir Next&quot;; font-size:18px;'><b>Version 2 produced so that W01000060 - Gwynedd 015B population weighted centroid falls right on the border and now due to Ordnance Survey realigning the ward and local authority boundary we have reallocated the population weighted centroid so it falls in W05000056 - Corris/Mawddwy and W06000002 - Gwynedd.</b></p><p style='margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:10px; box-sizing:border-box; color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:Lato, &quot;Avenir Next&quot;; font-size:18px;'><br />Field Names - LSOA11CD, LSOA11NM, WD21CD, WD21NM, LAD21CD, LAD21NM, FID</p><p style='margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:10px; box-sizing:border-box; color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:Lato, &quot;Avenir Next&quot;; font-size:18px;'>Field Types - Text, Text, Text, Text, Text, Text, Text</p><p style='margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:10px; box-sizing:border-box; color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:Lato, &quot;Avenir Next&quot;; font-size:18px;'>Field Lengths - 9, 33, 9, 53, 9, 35</p><p style='margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:10px; box-sizing:border-box; color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:Lato, &quot;Avenir Next&quot;; font-size:18px;'><span style='font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:11.5pt;'>FID = The FID, or Feature ID is created by the publication process when the names and codes / lookup products are published to the Open Geography portal. </span><br /> <br /><span style='font-family:&quot;Avenir Next W01&quot;, &quot;Avenir Next W00&quot;, &quot;Avenir Next&quot;, Avenir, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;'><font size='3'>For more information and an overview of best-fitting follow this link - </font></span></p><div><a href='https://geoportal.statistics.gov.uk/datasets/f0aac7ccbfd04cda9eb03e353c613faa/about' target='_blank' rel='nofollow ugc noopener noreferrer'>https://geoportal.statistics.gov.uk/datasets/f0aac7ccbfd04cda9eb03e353c613faa/about</a><div> <br /></div></div>
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