Version: 1.0.0 | Published: 31 Oct 2025 | Updated: 76 days ago
County Court Judgments (CCJs) (Individual Records and LSOA Geography)
Dataset
Summary
Description:
A County Court Judgment (CCJ) is a court order registered against a borrower if they fail to make debt repayments. Issued in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland, CCJs enable creditors to recover owed funds. Scotland, however, uses a different process called "enforcing a debt by diligence", where a decree or order may be issued by a sheriff court if a debtor fails to repay a debt and the pursuer seeks court intervention.
These secure data include record-level County Court Judgments for England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland and the Channel Islands. Two secure products are available, CCJs at the Lower Layer Super Output Area (LSOA), and individual level records. These data are supplied by the Registry Trust and are available from 2016 onwards with complete coverage for England and Wales.
Data included for each type of debtor (England and Wales complete coverage - other jurisdictions may have less data):
* Consumer/ Commercial
* Corporate/ Non-Corporate
* Value of judgment
* Debtor and creditor details
* Location details
Record level data are only available through our secure facilities - the JDI in UCL. LSOA level aggregate secured data can be made available for use through the UCL Data Safe Haven virtual trusted research environment.
The data aggregated at different Census geographies and rounded to the closest five observations is available as a Safeguarded product.
## Content
The aggregate level LSOA data for Consumer and Commercial debtor types is avaialable from 2016 onwards and includes:
* Total number of judgments
* Total value of judgments
* Average value of judgment
* Number of CCJs with a value less than £250
* Number of CCJs with a value less than £500
* Number of CCJs with a value less than £1,000
* Number of CCJs with a value greater than £1,000
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.
## Quality, Representation and Bias
The record level data have been aggregated to create an annual dataset. The data covers England and Wales only, with a total of 9 years of data. The individual level records contain each CCJ recorded, whilst the LSOA level dataset may suffer from some missing observations in some years, though with overall very good coverage. Please note: after the release of the 2021 Census, the 2023 dataset has been aggregated to 2021 LSOA geography, whilst the prior years are at 2011 LSOA geography.
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: 12 Granularity:
Record, LSOA11CD, LSOA21CD Rows: Dependent upon year (individual level) and
35,672 (2021 and 2011 LSOA level)
Coverage
Spatial
Spatial Coverage:
Great Britain
Temporal
Start Date:
01 January 2016
End Date:
31 December 2023
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