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Northern Ireland Super Output Areas (SOAs)

Super Output Areas (SOAs) are a new geography that have been developed by NISRA to improve the reporting of small area statistics. For more information on how SOAs were created please click HERE.

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Attribute Table

Variable Description
Persons Population Count in each SOA (2001 Census)
House Household Count in each SOA (2001 Census)
SOA_LABEL SOA labelling convention
SOA_CODE SOA coding convention

To download the boundary in GIS format click on the appropriate link below:-

ESRI Shapefile format (10.9MB) Download
Mapinfo format (12.1MB) Download