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

Publisher
Office for National Statistics
Updated
6 January 2026
Topic
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Licence
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Summary

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.

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).

Field Names – LSOA11CD, LSOA11NM, LSOA21CD, LSOA21NM, LAD22CD, LAD22NM, LAD22NMW

Field Types – Text, Text, Text, Text, Text, Text, Text

Field Lengths – 9, 33, 9, 40, 9, 35, 24

Data links

Link Format Preview Updated
ArcGIS Hub Dataset HTML 6/1/2026
SQLite Geodatabase GDB 30/12/2025
GeoPackage GPKG 30/12/2025
Excel XLSX 30/12/2025
Feature Collection TXT 30/12/2025
File Geodatabase ZIP 30/12/2025
KML KML 9/12/2025
Shapefile ZIP 9/12/2025
GeoJSON GEOJSON 9/12/2025
CSV CSV Preview 9/12/2025
ArcGIS GeoService ARCGIS GEOSERVICES REST API 9/12/2025

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Additional information

Source Metadata
XML, HTML
Harvest GUID
https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=b684a0dbf786473f9563ec0616da2f8b&sublayer=0

Contact

Enquiries

ons.geography@ons.gov.uk

Freedom of information (FOI) requests

FOI.Team@ons.gov.uk