Northern Ireland Output Areas

Output Areas (OAs) were introduced in Northern Ireland after the 2001 Census. They nest within the 582 Electoral Wards in Northern Ireland and were designed to have similar population sizes of around 125 households and 350 people, they are also as socially similar as possible. There are 5022 OAs in Northern Ireland.

Output Areas (OAs) do not nest within the new 11 Local Government Districts (LGD2014) but a best-fit lookup table has been created. Technical guidance document and look-up tables are available.

Output Areas

Variable	Description
X_Popcoord*	Geographic coordinate easting for population weighted centroid
Y_Popcoord*	Geographic coordinate northing for population weighted centroid
Hectares	Area in hectares
X_Coord	Geographic coordinate easting for geographically weighted centroid
Y_Coord	Geographic coordinate northing for geographically weighted centroid
OA_Code	Output Area coding convention

Output Area Boundaries in GIS format

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Output Area Boundaries in GIS format

01 January 2016