LSOA (2011) to LSOA (2021) to Local Authority District (2022) Best Fit Lookup for EW (V2)

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Dataset information

Catalog
Office for National Statistics catalog
Country of origin
United Kingdom
Updated
2025.12.23 12:17
Created
2025.12.03
Available languages
English
Keywords
Lower Super Output Areas, DEC_2021, Census Lookups, Local Authority Districts, LUP_BFT_LSOA_2011_LSOA_2021_LAD, Local Authority District, LAD, LUP_LSOA_2021_LAD, Lower Layer Super Output Area, England and Wales, Local Authority, LUP_BFT
Datasource
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Dataset description

<p><span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;"><span style="line-height:107%;">A best fit lookup file between Lower layer Super Output Areas (LSOA) as at December 2011 and LSOAs as at December 2021 in England and Wales.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;"><span style="line-height:107%;">The lookup contains all the 2011 LSOAs (34,753) and these are point-in-polygon to the 2021 LSOA full extent boundaries (which contains 34,628 records, so 1,044 LSOAs are missing from the 2021 LSOAs) (File Size 9 MB).</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;"><span style="line-height:107%;">Field Names – LSOA11CD, LSOA11NM, LSOA21CD, LSOA21NM, LAD22CD, LAD22NM, LAD22NMW</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;"><span style="line-height:107%;">Field Types – Text, Text, Text, Text,&nbsp;Text, Text, Text</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;"><span style="line-height:107%;">Field Lengths – 9, 33, 9, 40, 9, 35, 24</span></span></p>
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