Version: 1.0.0 | Published: 24 Nov 2025 | Updated: 52 days ago
County Court Judgments (CCJs) (MSOA Geography)
Dataset
Summary
Description:
These data consist of County Court Judgment Records aggregated to the Middle Layer Super Output Area (MSOA) level. They are available from 2015 onwards for England, Wales and Scotland.
The data are supplied by the Registry Trust and contain information on County Court Judgment Records (CCJs). A CCJ is a type of court order that is registered against a borrower if they fail to make repayments on a debt. They are used by creditors to reclaim the money owed, and are issued in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland. Scotland uses a different method called 'enforcing a debt by diligence'.
## Content
The safeguarded MSOA level CCJ dataset includes details of the numbers and values of judgments. For detailed description of the columns contained within the data, see the Variable Dictionary; and for an overview of the characteristics of the data, see the Data Summary. These files can be downloaded from the bottom of this page.
Secure level CCJ datasets are also available at the individual record level, and Lower Layer Super Output Area level . However, neither the safeguarded nor the secure datasets include valid creditor information for England nor Wales. This means that no information is included about those who have issued the CCJs.
Older data from 2001 to 2015 are available upon request. From 2001 to 2008 data is provided for England and Wales only, from 2008 to 2015 data is available for both England, Wales and Scotland.
## Quality, Representation and Bias
Quarterly data has been aggregated to an annual dataset. There is a total of 9 years of data, but for some years the data are not complete, with fewer than 7201 observations.
Contact Point:
Documentation
Documentation:
Source URL: Statutory registers Attribution: The data for this research have
been provided by the Geographic Data Service (geods.ac.uk), a Smart Data
Research UK Investment: ES/Z504464/1. Please check for any additional
attribution requirements mentioned within the files. Columns: 11 Granularity:
MSOA11CD, MSOA21CD Rows: Around 8500
Coverage
Spatial
Spatial Coverage:
Great Britain
Temporal
Start Date:
01 January 2016
End Date:
31 December 2024
Frequency:
YEAR
Provenance
Author 1
Name Organisation:
The data for this research have been provided by the Geographic Data Service
(geods.ac.uk), a Smart Data Research UK Investment: ES/Z504464/1. Please check
for any additional attribution requirements mentioned within the files.
Access and Governance
Access
Data Controller:
UCL
Origin
Name:
Geographic Data Service