2011 Census data for built-up areas provide information on the villages, towns and cities where people live, and allows comparisons between people living in built-up areas and those living elsewhere. This document provides an explanation of the methodology used and guidance to help users of the data. (File Size - 1 MB)

This file contains the digital vector boundaries for built up areas in Great Britain as at December 2022. The built up area boundaries are generalised and created using an automated approach based on a 25m grid squares (BGG).This file has been created from OS Open Built Up Areas. Further information about this product can be found in our FAQ document or from Ordnance Survey’s product information page.

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This file contains the digital vector boundaries for built up areas in England and Wales as at 2024. The built up area boundaries are generalised and created using an automated approach based on a 25m grid squares (BGG).

Only the latest versions of the products are available on the OS DataHub whereas we have the 2011 built-up areas, 2022 built up areas and these ones.

This file has been created from OS Open Built Up Areas. Further information about this product can be found in our FAQ document or from Ordnance Survey’s product information page.

Please note that this product contains both Ordnance Survey and ONS Intellectual Property Rights.

REST URL of Feature Access Service – https://services1.arcgis.com/ESMARspQHYMw9BZ9/arcgis/rest/services/main_ONS_BUA_2024_EW/FeatureServer

REST URL of WFS Server – https://dservices1.arcgis.com/ESMARspQHYMw9BZ9/arcgis/services/Built_Up_Areas_2024_Boundaries_EW_BGG/WFSServer?service=wfs&request=getcapabilities

REST URL of MapServer – https://services1.arcgis.com/ESMARspQHYMw9BZ9/arcgis/rest/services/Built_Up_Areas_(2024)_Boundaries_EW_BGG/MapServer

Populated place − place or area with clustered or scattered buildings and a permanent human population (city, settlement, town, village) and by definition has no legal boundaries

A lookup between built-up areas and built-up area sub-divisions as at 27 March 2011 (Census day) in England and Wales (File Size 266KB).REST URL of Feature Access Service – https://services1.arcgis.com/ESMARspQHYMw9BZ9/arcgis/rest/services/BUA11_BUASD11_EW_LU_f06f8068981b4715a69b1d5f7ba4f013/FeatureServer

The Global Human Settlement Layer: Population and Built-Up Estimates, and Degree of Urbanization Settlement Model Grid data set provides gridded data on human population (GHS-POP), built-up area (GHS-BUILT), and degree of urbanization (GHS-SMOD) across four time periods: 1975, 1990, 2000, and 2014 (BUILT) or 2015 (POP, SMOD). GHS-BUILT describes the percent built-up area for each 30 arc-second grid cell (approximately 1 km at the equator) based on Landsat imagery from each of the four time periods. GHS-POP consists of census data from the 2010 round of global census from Gridded Population of the World, Version 4, Revision 10 (GPWv4.10) spatially-allocated within census Units based on the percent built-up areas from GHS-BUILT. GHS-SMOD uses GHS-BUILT and GHS-POP in order to develop a standardized classification of degree of urbanization grid. The original data from the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission (JRC-EC) has been combined into a single data package in GeoTIFF format and reprojected from Mollweide Equal Area into WGS84 at 9 arc-second and 30 arc-second horizontal resolutions in order to support integration with a variety of global raster data sets.

Populated place − place or area with clustered or scattered buildings and a permanent human population (city, settlement, town, village) and by definition has no legal boundaries

A lookup between built-up area sub-divisions and regions as at 31 December 2011 in England and Wales (File Size 115KB).REST URL of Feature Access Service – https://services1.arcgis.com/ESMARspQHYMw9BZ9/arcgis/rest/services/BUASD11_RGN11_EW_LU_011a2cd12a8d4117a9cd64dcd7be00f5/FeatureServer

This guidance note sets out the recommended standard presentation of statistics for built-up areas at regional, built-up area and built-up area sub-division levels in England and Wales and is now available in accessible format (File Size - 598 KB).

An ESRI Shapfile containing spatially generalized built-up areas for each decade from 1900 to 2010, and for 2015, for each core-based statistical area (CBSA, i.e., metropolitan and micropolitan statistical area) in the conterminous United States. These areas are derived from historical settlement layers from the Historical settlement data compilation for the U.S. (HISDAC-US, Leyk & Uhl 2018). See Burghardt et al. (2022) for details on the data processing.

Additionally, there is a CSV file (HISDAC-US_patch_statistics.csv) containing the counts of built-up property records (BUPR), and -locations (BUPL), as well as total building indoor area (BUI) and built-up area (BUA) per CBSA, year, and patch, extraced from the HISDAC-US data (Uhl & Leyk 2018, Uhl et al. 2021). This CSV can be joined to the shapefile (column uid2) by concatenating the columns msaid_year_Id.

Spatial coverage: all CBSAs that are covered by the HISDAC-US historical settlement layers. This dataset includes around 2,700 U.S. counties. In the remaining counties, construction year coverage in the underlying ZTRAX data (Zillow Transaction and Assessment Dataset) is low. See Uhl et al. (2021) for details. All data created by Johannes H. Uhl, University of Colorado Boulder, USA. Code available at https://github.com/johannesuhl/USRoadNetworkEvolution. References: Burghardt, K., Uhl, J., Lerman, K., & Leyk, S. (2022). Road Network Evolution in the Urban and Rural United States Since 1900. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems. Leyk, S., & Uhl, J. H. (2018). HISDAC-US, historical settlement data compilation for the conterminous United States over 200 years. Scientific data, 5(1), 1-14. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2018.175 Uhl, J. H., Leyk, S., McShane, C. M., Braswell, A. E., Connor, D. S., & Balk, D. (2021). Fine-grained, spatiotemporal datasets measuring 200 years of land development in the United States. Earth system science data, 13(1), 119-153. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-119-2021

This point shapefile represents locations of built up areas (areas containing a concentration of buildings and other structures) in Iran. The Global Map Iran version 2 was developed from Digital Map 1:250000(1996).

Forecast: Number of Road Fatalities in Built-Up Areas in the US 2022 - 2026 Discover more data with ReportLinker!

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Forecast: Length of Roads Inside Built-Up Areas in the US 2024 - 2028 Discover more data with ReportLinker!

The statistic shows the built up area of Jakarta in Indonesia from 1975 to 2015. In 2015, the built up area of Jakarta amounted to about ******* square kilometers, up from about ******* square kilometers in 2000.

This file contains the digital vector boundaries for built-up area sub-divisions in England and Wales as at 27 March 2011 (Census day). The built-up area sub-division boundaries are generalised and created using an automated approach based on a 50m grid squares. Please note that this product contains both Ordnance Survey and ONS Intellectual Property Rights. Download File Size - 9 MBREST URL of ArcGIS for INSPIRE View Service – https://ons-inspire.esriuk.com/arcgis/rest/services/Census_Boundaries/Built_Up_Area_Sub_Divisions_December_2011_Boundaries_V2/MapServer/exts/InspireView REST URL of ArcGIS for INSPIRE Feature Download Service – https://ons-inspire.esriuk.com/arcgis/rest/services/Census_Boundaries/Built_Up_Area_Sub_Divisions_December_2011_Boundaries_V2/MapServer/exts/InspireFeatureDownloadREST URL of ArcGIS Feature Service – https://ons-inspire.esriuk.com/arcgis/rest/services/Census_Boundaries/Built_Up_Area_Sub_Divisions_December_2011_Boundaries_V2/FeatureServer

Population and household characteristics by coastal classification for built-up area (BUA) size classification and individual BUAs, Census 2021.

A lookup between built-up areas and local authority districts as at 31 December 2011 in England and Wales (File Size 390KB)REST URL of Feature Access Service – https://services1.arcgis.com/ESMARspQHYMw9BZ9/arcgis/rest/services/BUA11_LAD11_EW_LU_ccfff9f71c3c48b9b49ecc9d0e79c8c8/FeatureServer

Populated place − place or area with clustered or scattered buildings and a permanent human population (city, settlement, town, village) and by definition has no legal boundaries