County electoral divisions

The areas English county councils are elected by, the county council equivalent of wards.

Name in the API

countyElectoralDivision

Covers

England

Areas in the latest release

1,367

Published by

Office for National Statistics

Boundary releases

The Atlas holds one release of these boundaries.

ReleaseDescriptionAreasMap tiles
2023-05-en-bgcCounty electoral divisions, May 2023 (England, generalised, clipped)1,367Yes

Boundaries are published by Office for National Statistics under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Get attribution text gives the credit line for a map.

Datasets on these areas

No data in the Atlas is published on county electoral divisions yet. You can still look up these areas, draw their boundaries, and find which other areas they sit inside or overlap.

Request it

List the areas in the latest release:

curl "https://api.ukdataatlas.com/v1/areas?geography=countyElectoralDivision&release=2023-05-en-bgc&limit=5"

Draw them on a map with vector tiles:

curl "https://api.ukdataatlas.com/v1/map-resources/countyElectoralDivision/2023-05-en-bgc/tiles.json"
get/areas/{geography}/{release}/{code}/geometryGet an area's shapeget/areas:containsFind areas at a point

Downloads

Every release has an area-code lookup table. Releases with map resources also have downloadable PMTiles and GeoParquet shapes. The source and licence information above applies to these files too; preserve the attribution and note any cleaning or reformatting when you redistribute one.

ReleaseArea codesBoundary files
2023-05-en-bgcCSVPMTilesGeoParquet