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Home > Populations > All UK Local Councils in Population Order (2011 Census)

All UK Local Councils in Population Order (2011 Census)
Council Council Population City Status Largest Town in Council Area
1 Birmingham 1,073,045 Yes Birmingham
2 Leeds 751,485 Yes Leeds
3 Glasgow City 593,245 Yes Glasgow
4 Sheffield 552,698 Yes Sheffield
5 Cornwall 532,273 Yes (Truro) St Austell
6 Bradford 522,452 Yes Bradford
7 County Durham 513,242 Yes (Durham) Durham
8 Manchester 503,127 Yes Manchester
9 Edinburgh, City of 476,626 Yes Edinburgh
10 Wiltshire 470,981 Yes (Salisbury) Salisbury
11 Liverpool 466,415 Yes Liverpool
12 Bristol 428,234 Yes Bristol
13 Kirklees 422,458 No Huddersfield
14 Cheshire East 370,127 No Crewe
15 Fife 365,198 No Dunfermline
16 Croydon 363,378 No London Borough
17 Barnet 356,386 No London Borough
18 Cardiff 346,090 Yes Cardiff
19 Ealing 338,449 No London Borough
20 North Lanarkshire 337,727 No Cumbernauld
21 East Riding of Yorkshire 334,179 No Bridlington
22 Leicester 329,839 Yes Leicester
23 Cheshire West and Chester 329,608 Yes (Chester) Chester
24 Wakefield 325,837 Yes Wakefield
25 Wirral 319,783 No Birkenhead
26 Wigan 317,849 No Wigan
27 Coventry 316,960 Yes Coventry
28 Northumberland 316,028 No Blyth
29 South Lanarkshire 313,830 No East Kilbride
30 Dudley 312,925 No Dudley
31 Enfield 312,466 No London Borough
32 Brent 311,215 No London Borough
33 Bromley 309,392 No London Borough
34 Sandwell 308,063 No West Bromwich
35 Newham 307,984 No London Borough
36 Wandsworth 306,995 No London Borough
37 Shropshire 306,129 No Shrewsbury
38 Nottingham 305,680 Yes Nottingham
39 Lambeth 303,086 No London Borough
40 Doncaster 302,402 No Doncaster
41 Southwark 288,283 No London Borough
42 Stockport 283,275 No Stockport
43 Belfast 280,962 Yes Belfast
44 Newcastle upon Tyne 280,177 Yes Newcastle
45 Redbridge 278,970 No London Borough
46 Bolton 276,786 No Bolton
47 Lewisham 275,885 No London Borough
48 Sunderland 275,506 Yes Sunderland
49 Hillingdon 273,936 No London Borough
50 Sefton 273,790 No Southport
51 Brighton and Hove 273,369 Yes Brighton and Hove
52 Walsall 269,323 No Walsall
53 Medway 263,925 No Gillingham
54 South Gloucestershire 262,767 No Kingswood
55 Waltham Forest 258,249 No London Borough
56 Rotherham 257,280 No Rotherham
57 Kingston upon Hull 256,406 Yes Hull
58 Plymouth 256,384 Yes Plymouth
59 Haringey 254,926 No London Borough
60 Greenwich 254,557 No London Borough
61 Central Bedfordshire 254,381 No Dunstable
62 Tower Hamlets 254,096 No London Borough
63 Hounslow 253,957 No London Borough
64 Aberdeenshire 252,973 No Peterhead
65 Wolverhampton 249,470 Yes Wolverhampton
66 Stoke-on-Trent 249,008 Yes Stoke
67 Milton Keynes 248,821 No Milton Keynes
68 Derby 248,752 Yes Derby
69 Hackney 246,270 No London Borough
70 Harrow 239,056 No London Borough
71 Swansea 239,023 Yes Swansea
72 Havering 237,232 No London Borough
73 Southampton 236,882 Yes Southampton
74 Rhondda Cynon Taf 234,410 No Rhondda
75 Salford 233,933 Yes Salford
76 Highland 232,132 Yes (Inverness) Inverness
77 Bexley 231,997 No London Borough
78 Barnsley 231,221 No Barnsley
79 Trafford 226,578 No Sale
80 Oldham 224,897 No Oldham
81 Aberdeen City 222,793 Yes Aberdeen
82 Camden 220,338 No London Borough
83 Westminster 219,396 Yes Westminster
84 Tameside 219,324 No Ashton-under-Lyne
85 Northampton 212,069 No Northampton
86 Rochdale 211,699 No Rochdale
87 Swindon 209,156 No Swindon
88 Solihull 206,674 No Solihull
89 Islington 206,125 No London Borough
90 Portsmouth 205,056 Yes Portsmouth
91 Calderdale 203,826 No Halifax
92 Luton 203,201 No Luton
93 North Somerset 202,566 No Weston-Super-Mare
94 Warrington 202,228 No Warrington
95 North Tyneside 200,801 No Wallsend
96 Gateshead 200,214 No Gateshead
97 Merton 199,693 No London Borough
98 York 198,051 Yes York
99 Stockton-on-Tees 191,610 No Stockton-on-Tees
100 Sutton 190,146 No London Borough
101 Richmond upon Thames 186,990 No London Borough
102 Barking and Dagenham 185,911 No London Borough
103 Bury 185,060 No Bury
104 Carmarthenshire 183,777 No Llanelli
105 Peterborough 183,631 Yes Peterborough
106 Bournemouth 183,491 No Bournemouth
107 Herefordshire 183,477 Yes (Hereford) Hereford
108 Hammersmith and Fulham 182,493 No London Borough
109 Caerphilly 178,806 No Caerphilly
110 New Forest 176,462 No Totton
111 Bath and North East Somerset 176,016 Yes (Bath) Bath
112 St. Helens 175,308 No St. Helens
113 West Lothian 175,118 No Livingston
114 Renfrewshire 174,908 No Paisley
115 Basildon 174,497 No Basildon
116 Aylesbury Vale 174,137 No Aylesbury
117 Southend-on-Sea 173,658 No Southend
118 Colchester 173,074 No Colchester
119 Wycombe 171,644 No High Wycombe
120 Huntingdonshire 169,508 No St. Ives
121 Chelmsford 168,310 Yes Chelmsford
122 Basingstoke and Deane 167,799 No Basingstoke
123 North Lincolnshire 167,446 No Scunthorpe
124 Telford and Wrekin 166,641 No Telford
125 Charnwood 166,100 No Loughborough
126 South Somerset 161,243 No Yeovil
127 Kingston upon Thames 160,060 No London Borough
128 North East Lincolnshire 159,616 No Grimsby
129 Kensington and Chelsea 158,649 No London Borough
130 Harrogate 157,869 Yes (Ripon) Harrogate
131 Thurrock 157,705 No Grays
132 Bedford 157,479 No Bedford
133 Falkirk 155,990 No Falkirk
134 Reading 155,698 No Reading
135 Maidstone 155,143 No Maidstone
136 Wokingham 154,380 No Wokingham
137 West Berkshire 153,822 No Newbury
138 Flintshire 152,506 No Shotton/Hawarden
139 Oxford 151,906 Yes Oxford
140 Dumfries & Galloway 151,324 No Dumfries
141 Canterbury 151,145 Yes Canterbury
142 Arun 149,518 No Bognor Regis
143 Wealden 148,915 No Crowborough
144 South Cambridgeshire 148,755 No Great Shelford
145 South Tyneside 148,127 No South Shields
146 Poole 147,645 No Poole
147 Blackburn with Darwen 147,489 No Blackburn
148 King’s Lynn and West Norfolk 147,451 No King's Lynn
149 Dundee City 147,268 Yes Dundee
150 Braintree 147,084 No Braintree
151 Perth & Kinross 146,652 Yes Perth
152 Knowsley 145,893 No Huyton-with-Roby
153 Newport 145,736 Yes Newport
154 Dacorum 144,847 No Hemel Hempstead
155 Windsor and Maidenhead 144,560 No Maidenhead
156 Blackpool 142,065 No Blackpool
157 Cherwell 141,868 No Banbury
158 St Albans 140,664 Yes St. Albans
159 Slough 140,205 No Slough
160 Preston 140,202 Yes Preston
161 Mid Sussex 139,860 No Haywards Heath
162 Neath Port Talbot 139,812 No Neath
163 Bridgend 139,178 No Bridgend
164 Middlesbrough 138,412 No Middlesbrough
165 Lancaster 138,375 Yes Morecambe
166 Isle of Wight 138,265 No Newport (Isle of Wight)
167 North Ayrshire 138,146 No Irvine
168 Tendring 138,048 No Clacton-On-Sea
169 Reigate and Banstead 137,835 No Reigate/Redhill
170 East Hertfordshire 137,687 No Hoddesdon
171 Warwick 137,648 No Leamington
172 Guildford 137,183 No Guildford
173 East Lindsey 136,401 No Skegness
174 Swale 135,835 No Sittingbourne
175 Redcar and Cleveland 135,177 No Eston and South Bank
176 Wrexham 134,844 No Wrexham
177 South Oxfordshire 134,257 No Didcot
178 Thanet 134,186 No Margate
179 South Kesteven 133,788 No Grantham
180 Ipswich 133,384 No Ipswich
181 Powys 132,976 No Welshpool
182 Norwich 132,512 Yes Norwich
183 East Devon 132,457 No Exmouth
184 Horsham 131,301 No Horsham
185 Torbay 130,959 No Torquay
186 Elmbridge 130,875 No Walton and Weybridge
187 Stafford 130,869 No Stafford
188 Breckland 130,491 No Thetford
189 North Hertfordshire 127,114 No Hitchin
190 The Vale of Glamorgan 126,336 No Barry
191 Halton 125,746 No Widnes
192 Nuneaton and Bedworth 125,252 No Nuneaton
193 Eastleigh 125,199 No Eastleigh
194 Epping Forest 124,659 No Loughton
195 Broadland 124,646 No Taverham
196 Suffolk Coastal 124,298 No Felixstowe
197 Teignbridge 124,220 No Newton Abbot
198 South Norfolk 124,012 No Wymondham
199 Newcastle-under-Lyme 123,871 No Newcastle-under-Lyme
200 Cambridge 123,867 Yes Cambridge
201 East Ayrshire 122,767 No Kilmarnock
202 Pembrokeshire 122,439 Yes (St. Davids) Haverfordwest
203 Amber Valley 122,309 No Alfreton
204 Gwynedd 121,874 Yes (Bangor) Bangor
205 Gloucester 121,688 Yes Gloucester
206 Waverley 121,572 No Farnham
207 Vale of White Horse 120,988 No Abingdon
208 Tonbridge and Malling 120,805 No Tonbridge
209 Havant 120,684 No Havant
210 Stratford-on-Avon 120,485 No Stratford-upon-Avon
211 Lisburn 120,165 Yes Lisburn
212 Ashfield 119,497 No Sutton in Ashfield
213 Ashford 117,956 No Ashford
214 Exeter 117,773 Yes Exeter
215 Wychavon 116,944 No Droitwich
216 Winchester 116,595 Yes Waterlooville
217 Test Valley 116,398 No Andover
218 Angus 115,978 No Arbroath
219 Cheltenham 115,732 No Cheltenham
220 East Hampshire 115,608 No Alton
221 Waveney 115,254 No Lowestoft
222 Conwy 115,228 No Colwyn Bay
223 Tunbridge Wells 115,049 No Royal Tunbridge Wells
224 Sevenoaks 114,893 No Sevenoaks
225 Newark and Sherwood 114,817 No Newark-on-Trent
226 Sedgemoor 114,588 No Bridgwater
227 Scottish Borders 113,870 No Hawick
228 Chichester 113,794 Yes Chichester
229 East Staffordshire 113,583 No Burton upon Trent
230 Gedling 113,543 No Carlton
231 Bracknell Forest 113,205 No Bracknell
232 Bassetlaw 112,863 No Worksop
233 South Ayrshire 112,799 No Ayr
234 Stroud 112,779 No Stroud
235 Erewash 112,081 No Long Eaton
236 Dover 111,674 No Dover
237 Fareham 111,581 No Fareham/Portchester
238 Rushcliffe 111,129 No West Bridgford
239 St Edmundsbury 111,008 No Bury St. Edmunds
240 West Lancashire 110,685 No Skelmersdale
241 Welwyn Hatfield 110,535 No Welwyn Garden City
242 Taunton Deane 110,187 No Taunton
243 Broxtowe 109,487 No Beeston and Stapleford
244 Mendip 109,279 Yes (Wells) Frome
245 South Ribble 109,057 No Leyland
246 Scarborough 108,793 No Scarborough
247 South Staffordshire 108,131 No Great Wyrley
248 Shepway 107,969 No Folkstone
249 Derry 107,877 Yes Derry
250 North Kesteven 107,766 No Sleaford
251 Wyre 107,749 No Thornton/Cleveley's
252 Carlisle 107,524 Yes Carlisle
253 Chorley 107,155 No Chorley
254 Crawley 106,597 No Crawley
255 Darlington 105,564 No Darlington
256 Hinckley and Bosworth 105,078 No Hinckley
257 East Dunbartonshire 105,026 No Bearsden
258 West Oxfordshire 104,779 No Witney
259 Worthing 104,640 No Worthing
260 Mansfield 104,466 No Mansfield
261 Chesterfield 103,788 No Chesterfield
262 South Lakeland 103,658 No Kendal
263 Gravesham 101,720 No Gravesend
264 North Norfolk 101,499 No North Walsham
265 Lichfield 100,654 Yes Burntwood
266 Rugby 100,075 No Rugby
267 Hertsmere 100,031 No Borehamwood
268 East Lothian 99,717 No Musselburgh
269 Newry and Mourne 99,480 Yes Newry
270 Eastbourne 99,412 No Eastbourne
271 West Dorset 99,264 No Dorchester
272 Woking 99,198 No Woking
273 North East Derbyshire 99,023 No Clay Cross/North Wingfield
274 Worcester 98,768 Yes Worcester
275 Wyre Forest 97,975 No Kidderminster
276 Lewes 97,502 No Seaford
277 Cannock Chase 97,462 No Cannock
278 Dartford 97,365 No Dartford
279 Great Yarmouth 97,277 No Great Yarmouth
280 Staffordshire Moorlands 97,106 No Cheadle and Gatley
281 Mid Suffolk 96,731 No Stowmarket
282 Allerdale 96,422 No Workington
283 Spelthorne 95,598 No Staines
284 Fenland 95,262 No Wisbech
285 South Derbyshire 94,611 No Swadlincote
286 Blaby 93,915 No Kirby Muxloe
287 Rushmoor 93,807 No Farnborough
288 Denbighshire 93,734 Yes (St. Asaph) Rhyl
289 North Devon 93,667 No Barnstaple
290 Bromsgrove 93,637 No Bromsgrove
291 Broxbourne 93,609 No Cheshunt
292 Lincoln 93,541 Yes Lincoln
293 Kettering 93,475 No Kettering
294 North West Leicestershire 93,468 No Coalville
295 Moray 93,295 No Elgin
296 Craigavon 93,023 No Lurgan
297 Chiltern 92,635 No Amersham
298 Hartlepool 92,028 No Hartlepool
299 Monmouthshire 91,323 No Abergavenny
300 Torfaen 91,075 No Cwmbran
301 Hart 91,033 No Fleet
302 High Peak 90,892 No Glossop/Hollingworth
303 West Dunbartonshire 90,720 No Clydebank
304 Rother 90,588 No Bexhill
305 East Renfrewshire 90,574 No Newton Mearns
306 Watford 90,301 No Watford
307 Hastings 90,254 No Hastings
308 Stirling 90,247 Yes Stirling
309 Pendle 89,452 No Nelson
310 West Lindsey 89,250 No Gainsborough
311 Hambleton 89,140 No Northallerton
312 South Holland 88,270 No Spalding
313 Argyll & Bute 88,166 No Helensburgh
314 Castle Point 88,011 No Benfleet
315 Babergh 87,740 No Sudbury
316 Three Rivers 87,317 No Rickmansworth
317 East Dorset 87,166 No Ferndown
318 Burnley 87,059 No Burnley
319 East Northamptonshire 86,765 No Rushden
320 Surrey Heath 86,144 No Camberley/Frimley
321 Harborough 85,382 No Market Harborough
322 Mole Valley 85,375 No Leatherhead
323 South Northamptonshire 85,189 No Brackley
324 Newtownabbey 85,139 No Newtownabbey
325 Redditch 84,214 No Redditch
326 Stevenage 83,957 No Stevenage
327 East Cambridgeshire 83,818 Yes (Ely) Ely
328 Selby 83,449 No Selby
329 Rochford 83,287 No Rayleigh
330 Midlothian 83,187 No Penicuik
331 South Hams 83,140 No Ivybridge
332 Tandridge 82,998 No Caterham and Warlingham
333 Cotswold 82,881 No Cirencester
334 Gosport 82,622 No Gosport
335 Forest of Dean 81,961 No Coleford (Gloucestershire)
336 Harlow 81,944 No Harlow
337 Tewkesbury 81,943 No Tewkesbury
338 Inverclyde 81,485 No Greenock
339 Hyndburn 80,734 No Accrington
340 Runnymede 80,510 No Egham
341 Uttlesford 79,443 No Saffron Walden
342 North Down 78,937 No Bangor (NI)
343 Ards 78,078 No Newtownards
344 Daventry 77,843 No Daventry
345 Mid Devon 77,750 No Tiverton
346 Tamworth 76,813 No Tamworth
347 Ceredigion 75,922 No Aberystwyth
348 Bolsover 75,866 No Bolsover
349 Fylde 75,757 No Lytham St. Anne's
350 Wellingborough 75,356 No Wellingborough
351 Epsom and Ewell 75,102 No Epsom and Ewell
352 Malvern Hills 74,631 No Great Malvern
353 Brentwood 73,601 No Brentwood
354 Derbyshire Dales 71,116 No Matlock
355 Copeland 70,603 No Whitehaven
356 Blaenau Gwent 69,814 No Ebbw Vale
357 Isle of Anglesey 69,751 No Holyhead
358 Down 69,731 No Downpatrick
359 Barrow-in-Furness 69,087 No Barrow-in-Furness
360 North Dorset 68,583 No Blandford Forum
361 Rossendale 67,982 No Rawtenstall
362 Castlereagh 67,242 No Dundonald
363 South Bucks 66,867 No Beaconsfield
364 Weymouth and Portland 65,167 No Weymouth
365 Boston 64,637 No Boston
366 Ballymena 64,044 No Ballymena
367 Torridge 63,839 No Bideford
368 North Warwickshire 62,014 No Atherstone
369 Fermanagh 61,805 No Enniskillen
370 Maldon 61,629 No Maldon
371 Corby 61,255 No Corby
372 Adur 61,182 No Sompting/Lancing
373 Forest Heath 59,748 No Newmarket
374 Armagh 59,340 Yes Armagh
375 Coleraine 59,067 No Coleraine
376 Merthyr Tydfil 58,802 No Merthyr Tydfil
377 Dungannon 57,852 No Dungannon
378 Ribble Valley 57,132 No Clitheroe
379 Oadby and Wigston 56,170 No Wigston
380 Craven 55,409 No Skipton
381 West Devon 53,553 No Tavistock
382 Antrim 53,428 No Antrim
383 Eden 52,564 No Penrith
384 Richmondshire 51,965 No Richmond
385 Ryedale 51,751 No Norton (North Yorkshire)
386 Clackmannanshire 51,442 No Alloa
387 Omagh 51,356 No Omagh
388 Melton 50,376 No Melton Mowbray
389 Banbridge 48,339 No Banbridge
390 Christchurch 47,752 No Christchurch
391 Magherafelt 45,038 No Magherafelt
392 Purbeck 44,973 No Swanage
393 Strabane 39,843 No Strabane
394 Carrickfergus 39,114 No Carrickfergus
395 Rutland 37,369 No Oakham
396 Cookstown 37,013 No Cookstown
397 West Somerset 34,675 No Minehead
398 Limavady 33,536 No Limavady
399 Larne 32,180 No Larne
400 Ballymoney 31,224 No Ballymoney
401 Eilean Siar 27,684 No Steornabhagh (Stornoway)
402 Shetland Islands 23,167 No Lerwick
403 Orkney Islands 21,349 No Kirkwall
404 Moyle 17,050 No Ballycastle
405 City of London 7,375 Yes London
406 Isles of Scilly 2,203 No St. Marys

Notes

The table has been compiled using the 2011 Census publications

2011 Census: KS101EW Usual resident population, local authorities in England and Wales - released 11 December 2012

Table A1 - Census day usually resident population by single year of age and administrative area, 2011 (Scotland) - Release 1C (part one) - 23 July 2013

Population and Household Estimates by Local Government District for Northern Ireland - released 19 September 2012