This file contains the Output Area Classifications (OAC) for the UK as at December 2011. (File Size 6KB).Field Names – Supergroup, Group, Subgroup

Field Types – Text, Text, Text

Field Lengths – 30, 36, 50REST URL of Feature Access Service – https://services1.arcgis.com/ESMARspQHYMw9BZ9/arcgis/rest/services/OAC_2011_UK_NC_ef4e132bcfe8457aa344d59737e9bb31/FeatureServer

Average weekly household expenditure on goods and services in the UK. Data are shown by region, age, income (including equivalised) group (deciles and quintiles), economic status, socio-economic class, housing tenure, output area classification, urban and rural areas (Great Britain only), place of purchase and household composition.

The 2001 Area Classification of output areas is used to group together geographic areas according to key characteristics common to the population in that grouping. These groupings are called clusters, and are derived using 2001 population census data. This is a new classification produced using the same principles but a different statistical methodology from that used to produce the other area classifications.

This data package presents the data for the 24,140 Census Output Areas in Greater London but data for the UK is also available (see Download URL below).

For further guidance, advice and to see case studies using the 2001 OAC data, visit the OAC User Groups website: http://areaclassification.org.uk/

If you have any queries about or problems accessing any of the data please let Leeds University know: E-mail comments or queries to d.vickers@sheffield.ac.uk or visit their website.

*Please note that the Output Area cluster names (e.g. 'City Living') are not a national statistic and endorsed by ONS, these have been created and added by the University of Leeds to add further meaning to the classification.

A best-fit lookup between postcodes, frozen 2011 Census Output Areas (OA), Workplace Zones (WZ), Lower Layer Super Output Areas (LSOA), Middle Layer Super Output Areas (MSOA) and current local authority districts (LAD) along with OA, WZ, and LAD classifications as at May 2021 in the UK. Postcodes are best-fitted by plotting the location of the postcode's mean address into the areas of the output geographies. (File size 46MB).Field Names - PCD7, PCD8, PCDS, DOINTR, DOTERM, USERTYPE, OSEAST1M, OSNRTH1M, OA11CD, OAC11CD, OAC11NM, WZ11CD, WZC11CD, WZC11NM, LSOA11CD, LSOA11NM, MSOA11CD, MSOA11NM, LADCD, LADNM, LADNMW, LACCD, LACNMField Types - All TextField Lengths - 7, 8, 8, 6, 6, 1, 6, 7, 9, 3, 48, 9, 2, 60, 9, 63, 9, 35, 9, 36, 35, 3, 48

Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.

Understanding Society (the UK Household Longitudinal Study), which began in 2009, is conducted by the Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER) at the University of Essex, and the survey research organisations Verian Group (formerly Kantar Public) and NatCen. It builds on and incorporates, the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), which began in 1991.

The Understanding Society: Innovation Panel: Special Licence Access, Census 2001 Output Area Classification (OAC) dataset contains Output Area Classification (OAC01) geographic variables for each wave of Understanding Society: Innovation Panel to date, and a household identification serial number for file matching to the main Understanding Society: Innovation Panel data. These data have more restrictive access conditions than those available under the standard End User Licence (see 'Access data’ tab for more information).

Latest edition information

For the 11th edition (November 2024), data for Wave 16 was deposited and the documentation was updated accordingly.

Main Topics:

Variables include household identification number and OAC classifications for matching with each wave of Understanding Society: Innovation Panel to date.

It is essential that all local authorities understand our citizens and local communities. We have used the Output Area Classification (OAC) which is a social classification tool, used to assist in understanding our residents. An output area is a small geography that consists of about 125 households. They are designed to be as socially homogenous as possible. There are 1937 output areas in Cambridgeshire.

The Output Area Classification (OAC) is a geodemographic tool developed by the Office for National Statistics (ONS). It offers socio-demographic data for local neighbourhoods. Area classifications group together geographic areas according to key characteristics common to the population in that grouping. These groupings are called clusters and are derived using census data.

The first OAC was developed from the 2001 Census, and the 2011 version builds upon that with the latest Census data. The current OAC uses 62 key variables from the 2011 Census, broken down as follows:

• 22 Demographic

• 4 Household composition

• 9 Housing

• 11 Socio-economic

• 16 Employment

There are three levels to the classification, which for 2011 includes 8 supergroups, 24 groups and 67 sub groups. This is an expansion on the counts for 2001 (7 supergroups, 21 groups and 52 subgroups). A full explanation for each of these groups is made available in the associated attachments.

Understanding Society (the UK Household Longitudinal Study), which began in 2009, is conducted by the Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER) at the University of Essex, and the survey research organisations Verian Group (formerly Kantar Public) and NatCen. It builds on and incorporates, the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), which began in 1991.

Understanding Society (the UK Household Longitudinal Study), which began in 2009, is conducted by the Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER) at the University of Essex, and the survey research organisations Kantar Public and NatCen. It builds on and incorporates, the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), which began in 1991.

The Understanding Society: Innovation Panel: Special Licence Access, Census 2011 Output Area Classification dataset contains Output Areas (OAC11) geographic variables for each wave of Understanding Society: Innovation Panel to date, and a household identification serial number for file matching to the main Understanding Society: Innovation Panel data. It should be noted that these are the classifications and not the codes themselves. These data have more restrictive access conditions than those available under the standard End User Licence (see 'Access data' tab for more information).

Latest edition information

For the eighth edition (November 2024), data for Wave 16 was deposited and the documentation was updated accordingly.

Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.

Understanding Society (the UK Household Longitudinal Study), which began in 2009, is conducted by the Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER) at the University of Essex, and the survey research organisations Verian Group (formerly Kantar Public) and NatCen. It builds on and incorporates, the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), which began in 1991.

This dataset contains Census 2011 Output Area Classification (OAC11) geographic variables for each wave of Understanding Society to date, and a household identification serial number for file matching to the main data.

These are the classifications for Output Areas and not the Output Area codes themselves. The lowest level of geography available under Special Licence is Lower Layer Super Output Areas (LSOA). There is also a 2001 census version of the Output Area Classifications: see SN 6674.

These data have more restrictive access conditions than those available under the standard End User Licence (see 'Access data' tab for more information).

These data are consistent with the ONS Postcode Directory (ONSPD). Please see the Geographical Lookup Tables document for further details.

Latest Edition Information

For the 12th edition (November 2024), Wave 14 data have been added, and the documentation has been updated. In addition, Wave 13 data has been re-deposited with superfluous entries removed.

The National Statistics Area Classification provides a simple indicator of the characteristics of the area based on a range of census data. The Standard Source Data refers to the census variables used to devise the classification. Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS): using Census 2001 data Publisher: Neighbourhood Statistics Geographies: Lower Layer Super Output Area (LSOA) Geographic coverage: England and Wales Time coverage: 2001 Notes: The National Statistics 2001 Area Classification of Output Areas is a powerful and effective way of summarising the complexity of census data. It provides a simple indicator of the characteristics of the area and of the similarity between areas, for comparative or targeting purposes, and as a variable for analysis with other data.

Geodemographic classifications are small area classifications of social, economic and demographic characteristics. The Output Area Classification (OAC) is a free geodemographic classification. It is an Office of National Statistics validated measure that summarises neighbourhood conditions at the Output Area Level across the United Kingdom. Linkage of this valuable statistics has been problematic for users more used to address records that are georeferenced using unit postcodes. OACoder resolves this problem by allowing users to link corresponding OAC codes to each of the postcode addresses. OACoder is an open source software, and it is developed and tested to work on different versions of windows operating systems. It is stored in Figshare. The source code of the OACoder is stored in SourceForge. As open source software, OACoder has reuse potential across a range of applications. The functionality of OACoder can be extended to work with new version of OAC (2011 OAC). It is also possible to reuse the source code and extend the functionality to work on different operating systems other than Windows. Different components of the software can be reused for the purpose of reading/writing CSV files and handling large data sets.

This software is made available under a GPL-3.0 license, and is described in the following paper: Muhammad Adnan, Alex Singleton, Paul A. Longley. 2013. OACoder: Postcode Coding Tool. Journal of Open Research Software, 1(1) DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/511ba2c94d661

A lookup between Output Areas (OA), Lower Layer Super Output Areas (LSOA), Middle Layer Super Output Areas (MSOA) and local authority districts (LAD) including OA and LAD classifications as at 31 December 2017 in Great Britain. (File size - 142 MB). Field Names - OA11CD, OAC11CD, OAC11NM, LSOA11CD, LSOA11NM, SOAC11CD, SOAC11NM, MSOA11CD, MSOA11NM, LAD17CD, LAD17NM, LAC11CD, LAC11NM, RGN11CD, RGN11NM, CTRY11CD, CTRY11NMField Types - Text, Text, Text, Text, Text, Text, Text, Text, Text, Text, Text, Text, Text, Text, Text, Text, TextField Lengths - 9, 3, 44, 9, 62, 2, 35, 9, 58, 9, 36, 4, 36, 9, 24, 9, 17This file has been updated to include the SOA classification name and code.REST URL of Feature Access Service – https://services1.arcgis.com/ESMARspQHYMw9BZ9/arcgis/rest/services/OA11_LSOA11_MSOA11_LAD_GB_LU_classificationv2_d592d853d7394d268aa7c8ecf8854704/FeatureServer

A series of flow based classifications of commuting for England and Wales based on MSOA origin-destination data from the 2011 Census. It consists of 9 super-groups and 40 sub-groups. The evidence can be used to target funding for an 'into-work-scheme' to help the most disconnected community. The toolkit allows the policymaker to explore levels of commuting and compare the level of connectivity of each neighbourhood to major employment centres. The underlying rationale for the research is that the toolkit will help deliver efficiencies in public and private sector investment. This is crucial at a time when the government is promoting the need for smarter economic growth but doing so in a challenging context in which public sector resources are scarce and the private sector is risk averse.

Numerous research studies use commuting data, collected through the Census of Population, to understand social, economic and environmental challenges in the UK. This commuting data has been used to understand patterns; answer questions regarding the relationship between housing and labour markets; and to see if travel behaviour is becoming more or less sustainable over time. However, there is lots of untapped potential for such data to be used to evaluate transport policy and investment decisions so resources are more effectively and efficiently targeted to places of need. In applied public policy a major shortcoming has been a lack of use of this data to support investment in transport which has major implications for economic growth. If transport investments are inefficiently targeted, this restricts the capacity of places to grow economies to their full potential. This wastes their resources by over investing in transport capacity in areas where it is not needed. Equally, it has long been argued that efficient investment in transport is crucial if labour market exclusion, particularly the case of deprived communities, is to be tackled. The aim of the research is to inform community transportation policy and investment and the socio-spatial dimensions of travel to work flows over time (2001-2011). Our research develops a toolkit to help decision-makers better target investment in transport capacity and infrastructure. The toolkit includes a series of new classifications of commuting flows from the 2001 and 2011 Censuses. It will include a classification of newly developed official Workplace Zones for England to complement official residential population-based classifications alongside various population, deprivation, investment and infrastructure data. The toolkit will bring these classifications and datasets together online through various mapping and analysis tools to understand the dynamics of commuting between different types of residential and workplace locations over time and combine these datasets and analyses with locally-specific transport investment data. The methodology developed will be applied to England as a whole but we will use the Manchester as a test-case for our analysis and for development of the toolkit. The use of open source approaches to build the toolkit means that other locations will have the framework to develop their own toolkit. The flow and area-based (Workplace Zones) classifications for England will complement official ONS residential-based output area classification and existing indices of deprivation. This will be mapped in relation to key transport investments made in Manchester, using local administrative data and overlay these with the results of commuting analysis to support decision-making regarding future targeted public transport infrastructure investment. The toolkit will be interactive so users can pose policy questions to explore commuting relationships between different places. The strength of this approach is that it will enable policy and decision-makers to test various scenarios for future transport investment depending on problems they have posed. In a hypothetical situation, a policymaker in might ask the question of whether a specific deprived community in their city is more or less connected into a major employment centre than another equally deprived community.

Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.Understanding Society (the UK Household Longitudinal Study), which began in 2009, is conducted by the Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER) at the University of Essex, and the survey research organisations Kantar Public and NatCen. It builds on and incorporates, the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), which began in 1991. This dataset contains Census 2001 Output Area Classification (OAC) geographic variables for each wave of Understanding Society and harmonised BHPS to date, and a household identification serial number for file matching to the main data. These are the classifications for Output Areas and not the Output Area codes themselves. The lowest level of geography available under Special Licence is Lower Layer Super Output Areas (LSOA). There is also a 2011 census version of the Output Area Classifications: see SN 7629. These data have more restrictive access conditions than those available under the standard End User Licence (see 'Access' section). Those users who wish to make an application for these data should contact the HelpDesk for further details. These data are consistent with the ONS Postcode Directory (ONSPD). Please see the Geographical Lookup Tables document for further details. Latest Edition Information For the 15th edition (November 2023), Wave 13 data have been added, and the documentation has been updated.

A lookup between Small Areas (SA), Lower Layer Super Output Areas (LSOA) and local government districts (LAD) including OA and LAD classifications as at 31 December 2018 in Northern Ireland (File size - 3MB).

Eine PDF-Karte mit der Gebietsklassifizierung (2011) für Output Areas (Supergroups) im Vereinigten Königreich. (Dateigröße - 25 MB)

Map showing Area Classification (2011) of Super Output Areas (Groups) in the United Kingdom (14 MB)

The National Statistics Area Classification provides a simple indicator of the characteristics of the area based on a range of census data. It provides a simple indicator of the characteristics of the area and of the similarity between areas, for comparative or targeting purposes, and as a variable which can be used for analysis with other data. Data is available for Super Output Areas Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS): using Census 2001 data Publisher: Neighbourhood Statistics Geographies: Lower Layer Super Output Area (LSOA) Geographic coverage: England and Wales Time coverage: 2001 Notes: The National Statistics 2001 Area Classification of Output Areas is a powerful and effective way of summarising the complexity of census data. It provides a simple indicator of the characteristics of the area and of the similarity between areas, for comparative or targeting purposes, and as a variable for analysis with other data.

A best-fit lookup between postcodes, frozen 2011 Census Output Areas (OA), Workplace Zones (WZ), Lower Layer Super Output Areas (LSOA), Middle Layer Super Output Areas (MSOA) and current local authority districts (LAD) along with OA, WZ, and LAD classifications as at May 2020 in the UK. Postcodes are best-fitted by plotting the location of the postcode's mean address into the areas of the output geographies. (File size 46MB).Field Names - PCD7, PCD8, PCDS, DOINTR, DOTERM, USERTYPE, OSEAST1M, OSNRTH1M, OA11CD, OAC11CD, OAC11NM, WZ11CD, WZC11CD, WZC11NM, LSOA11CD, LSOA11NM, MSOA11CD, MSOA11NM, LADCD, LADNM, LADNMW, LACCD, LACNMField Types - Text, Text, Text, Text, Text, Text, Text, Text, Text, Text, Text, Text, Text, Text, Text, Text, Text, Text, Text, Text, Text, Text, TextField Lengths - 7, 8, 8, 6, 6, 1, 6, 7, 9, 3, 48, 9, 2, 60, 9, 63, 9, 35, 9, 36, 35, 3, 48

Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.

Understanding Society (the UK Household Longitudinal Study), which began in 2009, is conducted by the Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER) at the University of Essex, and the survey research organisations Verian Group (formerly Kantar Public) and NatCen. It builds on and incorporates, the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), which began in 1991.

This dataset contains Census 2001 Output Area Classification (OAC) geographic variables for each wave of Understanding Society and harmonised BHPS to date, and a household identification serial number for file matching to the main data. These data have more restrictive access conditions than those available under the standard End User Licence (see 'Access data' tab for more information).

These data are consistent with the ONS Postcode Directory (ONSPD). Please see the Geographical Lookup Tables document for further details.

Latest Edition Information

For the 16th edition (November 2024), Wave 14 data have been added, and the documentation has been updated. In addition, Wave 13 data has been re-deposited with superfluous entries removed.

Data containing the Output Areas and Output Areas to higher geographies within Glasgow City Council based on the 2011 Census aggregates. It shows a output area codes for Glasgow and a lookup of postcode to output area, data zone, intermediate geography, electoral ward code and other higher geographies with their corresponding Easting and Northing. Output Areas are the main building bricks for census areas. They are derived from aggregating a small number of neighbouring postcodes although in few cases, some postcodes are large enough to become single output areas. Output Areas will aggregate exactly to council areas but not necessarily to other higher geographies. Glasgow City Council Area Code used in the 2011 census is S12000046. For a more detailed report on the classification of Output areas used in the 2011 census, please click here. Data extracted 2013-11-13T11:12:42 Contains NRS data (c) Crown copyright 2013. Contains Ordnance Survey data (c) Crown copyright 2013. Licence: None output-area.zip - https://dataservices.open.glasgow.gov.uk/Download/Organisation/cb95330b-d7c0-472b-b3a7-a1b520bffd18/Dataset/39016946-3b63-448e-931e-04ead35a138f/File/3cc12f2d-513d-4176-a19c-0e4121507b47/Version/d169dac5-8b3e-498f-8b6b-9aa849dfdd6f output-areas-to-higher-areas.zip - https://dataservices.open.glasgow.gov.uk/Download/Organisation/cb95330b-d7c0-472b-b3a7-a1b520bffd18/Dataset/39016946-3b63-448e-931e-04ead35a138f/File/cb26c01d-c177-44dc-89cc-7446fad75817/Version/e5637660-4c0a-4850-8372-0e9229a13bbe output-areas-to-higher-areas.geojson - https://dataservices.open.glasgow.gov.uk/Download/Organisation/cb95330b-d7c0-472b-b3a7-a1b520bffd18/Dataset/39016946-3b63-448e-931e-04ead35a138f/File/f86e025e-750f-4e0e-a735-b21a0a8312ae/Version/7ed87d76-1907-4924-b664-6716a11a9621 glasgow-2011-output-area.geojson - https://dataservices.open.glasgow.gov.uk/Download/Organisation/cb95330b-d7c0-472b-b3a7-a1b520bffd18/Dataset/39016946-3b63-448e-931e-04ead35a138f/File/759cf6b9-95d8-4739-a2bc-f77d8cbc6a59/Version/8d51f7e6-347f-4a42-aef9-dce91b748e63