List of localities in England by population

This article is provided for historical interest only, because this sense of 'locality' disappears in the 2011 census and consequently the table cannot be updated reliably. The data here shows the figures as at 2001 and is deliberately not current.

Localities, also called urban sub-divisions, are component areas of the urban areas (conurbations) of England and Wales defined by the Office for National Statistics to enable detailed study of smaller areas within conurbations, and to enable comparisons to be made with historical data. The boundaries of localities within conurbations often follow those of local authorities existing before local government re-organisation in 1974, the boundaries of current authorities within agglomerations, or the points where previously separate urban areas joined.

Localities are not the same as local government areas such as cities or borough council areas, as localities are based upon the actual built-up area and cannot extend beyond a single physically contiguous urban area, but can extend beyond local government boundaries. For the population of these local government areas see List of English districts by population.

This is a list of the localities within England that had a population greater than 100,000 at the time of the United Kingdom Census 2001.

Rank	Locality	Population (2001 Census)	Ceremonial county	Notes
1	Birmingham	970,892	West Midlands	Does not include the town of Sutton Coldfield, but does include Castle Bromwich. Population of entire West Midlands conurbation was 2,284,093.
2	Liverpool	469,017	Merseyside	Liverpool Urban Area 864,122 List of urban areas in the United Kingdom
3	Leeds	443,247	West Yorkshire	Excludes the areas of Bramhope, Guiseley, Yeadon, Garforth, Wetherby, Otley, Morley, Rawdon and Scarcroft. Entire Leeds urban area List of English districts by population had a population of 750,700.
4	Sheffield	439,866	South Yorkshire	Excludes the areas of Beighton, Chapeltown and Mosborough/Highlane. Entire Urban area was 640,720 (including Rotherham)
5	Bristol	420,556	Bristol
6	Manchester	394,269	Greater Manchester	Metropolitan district, minus Ringway. Population of entire Greater Manchester Urban Area was 2,240,230.
7	Leicester	330,574	Leicestershire	District minus Beaumont Leys, plus Scraptoft, Glenfield, Thurmaston, Thurnby. Excludes Oadby and Wigston.
8	Coventry	325,949	West Midlands	Excludes the Bedworth area of Coventry and Bedworth Urban Area. Entire population of this area was 359,262
9	Croydon	316,283	Greater London
10	Barnet	314,019	Greater London
11	Kingston upon Hull	301,416	East Riding of Yorkshire	District plus suburbs outside local authority border (Haltemprice)
12	Ealing	300,948	Greater London
13	Bradford	293,717	West Yorkshire	Excludes Shipley and Bingley.
14	Bromley	280,305	Greater London
15	Enfield	273,203	Greater London
16	Lambeth	267,785	Greater London
17	Brent	263,464	Greater London
18	Wandsworth	259,881	Greater London
19	Stoke-on-Trent	259,252	Staffordshire	Includes suburbs outside local authority border: Brown Edge and Blythe Bridge
20	Wolverhampton	251,462	West Midlands	Included suburbs outside local authority border including Perton and Lower Penn.
21	Nottingham	249,584	Nottinghamshire	Excludes Clifton. Population of the Nottingham Urban Area was 729,977.
22	Lewisham	248,922	Greater London
23	Newham	243,891	Greater London
24	Plymouth	243,795	Devon
25	Southwark	243,749	Greater London
26	Hillingdon	242,755	Greater London
27	Redbridge	240,796	Greater London
28	Southampton	234,224	Hampshire
29	Reading	232,662	Berkshire	Includes suburbs in West Berkshire and Wokingham districts.
30	Derby	229,407	Derbyshire
31	Havering	223,193	Greater London
32	Greenwich	219,263	Greater London
33	Waltham Forest	218,341	Greater London
34	Haringey	216,507	Greater London
35	Hounslow	212,341	Greater London
36	Bexley	211,802	Greater London
37	Harrow	206,643	Greater London
38	Hackney	202,824	Greater London
39	Camden	198,020	Greater London
40	Tower Hamlets	196,106	Greater London
41	Dudley	194,919	West Midlands
42	Newcastle upon Tyne	189,863	Tyne and Wear	Excludes Gosforth and Newburn
43	Northampton	189,474	Northamptonshire
44	Merton	187,908	Greater London
45	Portsmouth	187,056	Hampshire
46	Luton	185,543	Bedfordshire
47	Preston	184,836	Lancashire	Includes part of South Ribble district including Walton-le-Dale.
48	Westminster	181,766	Greater London
49	Sutton	177,796	Greater London
50	Sunderland	177,739	Tyne and Wear	Sunderland proper only, not the City of Sunderland. Includes Ryhope, excludes Washington, Houghton-le-Spring and Hetton-le-Hole
51	Islington	175,797	Greater London
52	Norwich	174,047	Norfolk	Includes Thorpe St. Andrew
53	Richmond upon Thames	172,335	Greater London
54	Walsall	170,994	West Midlands
55	Bournemouth	167,527	Dorset
56	Hammersmith and Fulham	165,242	Greater London
57	Barking and Dagenham	163,944	Greater London
58	Southend-on-Sea	160,257	Essex
59	Kensington and Chelsea	158,439	Greater London
60	Swindon	155,432	Wiltshire
61	Kingston upon Thames	146,873	Greater London
62	Huddersfield	146,234	West Yorkshire
63	Poole	144,800	Dorset
64	Oxford	143,016	Oxfordshire
65	Middlesbrough	142,691	North Yorkshire	Includes Ormesby but excludes Eston & Southbank
66	Blackpool	142,283	Lancashire
67	Oldbury/Smethwick	139,855	West Midlands
68	Bolton	139,403	Greater Manchester
69	Ipswich	138,718	Suffolk
70	York	137,505	North Yorkshire
71	West Bromwich	136,940	West Midlands	Includes Tipton and Wednesbury.
72	Peterborough	136,292	Cambridgeshire
73	Stockport	136,082	Greater Manchester
74	Brighton	134,293	East Sussex	Excludes Rottingdean/Saltdean; the (then) town of Brighton, not the conjoined local authority of Brighton and Hove
75	Slough	126,276	Berkshire
76	Gloucester	123,205	Gloucestershire
77	Watford	120,960	Hertfordshire	Urban subdivision of Greater London Urban Area.
78	Rotherham	117,262	South Yorkshire
79	Cambridge	117,717	Cambridgeshire
80	Exeter	106,772	Devon
81	Eastbourne	106,562	East Sussex
82	Sutton Coldfield	105,452	West Midlands
83	Blackburn	105,085	Lancashire
84	Colchester	104,390	Essex
85	Oldham	103,544	Greater Manchester
86	St Helens	102,629	Merseyside
87	Woking/Byfleet	101,127	Surrey
88	Chesterfield	101,000	Derbyshire
89	Crawley	100,547	West Sussex

See also

• List of English districts by population
• List of English counties by population
• List of ceremonial counties of England
• List of towns and cities in England by historical population
• List of English districts by area
• List of English districts and their ethnic composition
• List of conurbations in the United Kingdom
• List of localities in Wales by population
• List of localities in Scotland by population

References

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