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Population pyramid of Wigan in 2020. With a population of around 300,000, Wigan is the second most populous borough of Greater Manchester, after Manchester. It has one of the lowest ethnic minority populations, with the 2001 census reporting 98.7% of the population as white. Unemployment is around the average for England and Wales.
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).
It is the largest settlement in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan and is its administrative centre. The town has a population of 107,732 [1] and the wider borough of 330,714. [2] Wigan is part of the historic county of Lancashire. Wigan was in the territory of the Brigantes, an ancient Celtic tribe that ruled much of what is now Northern England.
Wigan is the least ethnically diverse borough in the county, and 274th in England. The Metropolitan Borough of Oldham is the borough with the highest proportion of people under fifteen years of age. [7] Almost 12% of people in the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham are of South Asian heritage, the highest proportion of a borough of Greater ...
Wigan 237,360 Metropolitan Borough of Wigan: n/a n/a n/a 26 Barnsley 211,807 Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley: Leeds 1,499,465 37 27 Portsmouth 205,400 Includes the towns of Gosport, Waterlooville, Havant, Fareham and Portchester n/a n/a n/a 28 Luton 203,600 Luton & Dunstable: n/a n/a n/a 29 York 202,400 York: n/a n/a n/a 30 Northampton 200,092 ...
The Urban Area includes the integrated conurbation around Wigan, (containing the contiguous areas of Ince-in-Makerfield and Wigan itself), along with the outlying areas of Standish, Abram and the West Lancashire town of Skelmersdale. The Wigan Urban Area has a total population of 175,405. [1] This is an increase of 5% on the 2001 figure of ...
Leigh is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, Greater Manchester, England, ... The majority of the population of Leigh were born in England (95.92%); 2.10% ...
Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council ... Population • Total. 14,656 [1] Pemberton is an electoral ward in Wigan, England. It forms part of Wigan Metropolitan Borough ...