FOI reference: FOI-2025-2912
You asked
I kindly request access to the Geographical Information System (GIS) shapefile associated with your map titled Web map for Rural Urban Classification (RUC) of Local Authority District Areas (LADs), England and Wales, 2024.
We said
Thank you for your request.
The web map for Rural Urban Classification (RUC) of Local Authority District Areas (LADs), England and Wales, 2024 you are referring to was created based on two files:
1. Local Authority Districts (December 2024) Boundaries UK BGC | Open Geography Portal
- You can download the datasets in different format as a Shapefile, GeoJSon, KML, File geodatabase, geopackage, etc by clicking the “download” button.
- You can also use the datasets as an API by clicking on the I want to...> View API Resources (either as a Geoservice or a GeoJSON).
2. The separate lookup table Rural Urban Classification (2021) of Local Authority Districts (2024) in EW is determining the colours based on the category.
- You’ll need to join the table with the boundary file based on the local Authority Code (LAD24CD attribute field).
All data on the Open Geography Portal is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0, except where otherwise stated, free to use but with appropriate credits to ONS. See our Licences information on the ONS website for more details.