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According to the 2021 United Kingdom census, the City of Birmingham is the most populous local government district (and therefore in terms of population actually the UK’s largest City-proper) with a population of 1.145 million — substantially larger than the City of Manchester, which at 552,000 is only the sixth largest, behind Birmingham ...
Manchester 2,732,854 23 38 Warrington 163,479 Includes the town of Great Sankey Chester 1,365,900 41 39 Mansfield 158,496 Ashfield and Mansfield: Nottingham 825,600 82 40 Swindon 155,970 Swindon: n/a n/a n/a 41 Reading 155,300 Reading, Berkshire: n/a n/a n/a 42 Blackburn 147,700 Blackburn with Darwen: n/a n/a n/a 43 Burnley 146,419 Burnley and ...
This is a list of the 296 districts of England ordered by population, according to estimated figures for 2022 from the Office for National Statistics. [1]The list consists of 164 non-metropolitan districts, 32 London boroughs, 36 metropolitan boroughs, 62 unitary authorities, and two sui generis authorities (the City of London and the Isles of Scilly).
Large cities other than London, such as Manchester or Birmingham, are often confused with these conurbations. Manchester has a significantly lower population than Birmingham, though the Greater Manchester Built-up Area is more populous than the West Midlands conurbation. [15]
(In ONS reports of the 2011 and 2021 censuses, many of these areas were called "built-up sub-areas" of larger urban areas; as of October 2024, the ONS has not defined a new nomenclature for the urban areas or released any data for them.)
This is a list of settlements in West Midlands by population based on the results of the 2021 census.The next United Kingdom census will take place in 2031. In 2011, there were 29 built-up area subdivisions with 5,000 or more inhabitants in the West Midlands, shown in the table below.
Most notable from a modern viewpoint is the fact that Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds, Liverpool and Sheffield do not make the top thirty, whereas within around 100 years they would become England's largest provincial cities. The 1750 table is again formed from estimates.
The New Local Government Network proposed the creation of a new Manchester City Region based on Greater Manchester and other metropolitan counties as part of on-going reform efforts, while a report released by the Institute for Public Policy Research's Centre for Cities proposed the creation of two administrative city regions based on ...