ONS Geography receives a large number of enquiries per month on a wide range of topics relating to our work and products, and also on topics we don't deal with. To make things easier for you we've compiled a set of frequently asked questions to help point you in the right direction. Follow the link relating to your area of interest and hopefully you'll find what you need; if you're still stuck though, or have an unrelated question, then please contact us.

Topics relating to our work:

Statistical wards, Census Area Statistics (CAS) wards and Standard Table (ST) wards

Information on names, codes and legal status of UK geographic areas

Presentation orders for regional data

Information on boundary change

Area measurements

Number of counties/districts/unitary authorities/wards etc in the UK

Postcode to area relationships

Classification of Rural and Urban Areas

Topics we don't deal with directly:

Information on population

Information on tourism/ethnicity/socio-economic data/deprivation

Maps of postal geographies, electoral wards and enumeration districts; any digital boundary sets

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This page last revised: Monday, 18 October 2004