County Court Judgments (CCJs)

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 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. This secure dataset contains anonymised record-level consumer County Court Judgments for England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland and the Channel Islands. Commercial judgments are not included. We hold snapshots released at the end of each quarter, with each snapshot containing the judgments registered in the six years preceding its release.

The data is also available aggregated at different Census geographies, with LSOA aggregation being an additional secure product and MSOA aggregation available as a Safeguarded product (see link below).

Content

Each record corresponds to a single consumer judgment. The data file includes:

  • Court and jurisdiction identifiers
  • Judgment value
  • Judgment type
  • Judgment status and dates
  • Geographic coding to the Output Area of the associated defendents address.

The data is updated quarterly with the earliest version available from Q1 2025. For a detailed description of the columns, see the Variable Dictionary; 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 dataset is supplied as quarterly snapshots, each containing six years of preceding judgment records. As individual records, all judgments meeting the consumer criterion are included, with no aggregation-related suppression or rounding applied. Records are dual-coded to both 2011 and 2021/2022 Census small area geographies to support analysis across the 2021/2022 Census boundary change.

Secure

Data and Resources

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Additional Info

Field Value
Source Statutory registers
Author Registry Trust Ltd; GeoDS
Maintainer Geographic Data Service
Last Updated May 15, 2026, 12:54 (UTC)
Created November 28, 2024, 18:13 (UTC)
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 13
Frequency Quarterly
Granularity Individual Judgment
Rows 4738963
Spatial Coverage United Kingdom
Temporal Coverage March 2020 to March 2026