Council Areas Compared To Towns

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UK Town Areas Compared with Council Areas
	Town	Town Area (Hectares)	Council Area (Hectares)	Difference
1	Doncaster	2,064	56,799	54,735
2	Leeds	10,920	55,173	44,253
3	Swansea	4,805	37,809	33,004
4	Wakefield	2,062	33,861	31,799
5	Barnsley	1,857	32,905	31,048
6	Peterborough	4,047	34,338	30,291
7	Bradford	6,437	36,642	30,205
8	Colchester	2,965	32,910	29,945
9	Sheffield	11,105	36,794	25,689
10	Rotherham	3,393	28,653	25,260
11	Milton Keynes	5,730	30,863	25,133
12	Telford	4,180	29,031	24,851
13	York	3,148	27,199	24,051
14	Swindon	4,055	23,009	18,954
15	Wigan	1,833	18,819	16,986
16	Newport	3,236	19,044	15,808
17	Edinburgh	11,475	26,373	14,898
18	Rochdale	2,218	15,808	13,590
19	Aberdeen	5,501	18,576	13,075
20	Oldham	1,790	14,236	12,446
21	Blackburn	2,449	13,701	11,252
22	St. Helens	2,485	13,638	11,153
23	Preston	4,227	14,229	10,002
24	Sunderland	3,874	13,745	9,871
25	Stockport	2,950	12,606	9,656
26	Bolton	4,446	13,980	9,534
27	Salford	2,059	9,719	7,660
28	Cardiff	6,652	13,890	7,238
29	Newcastle	4,568	11,344	6,776
30	Walsall	4,450	10,395	5,945
31	Brighton and Hove	3,170	8,267	5,097
32	Birmingham	22,296	26,777	4,481
33	Dudley	5,345	9,796	4,451
34	Northampton	4,837	8,076	3,239
35	Coventry	6,754	9,864	3,110
36	Belfast	8,395	11,488	3,093
37	Stoke	6,966	9,345	2,379
38	Derby	5,529	7,803	2,274
39	Exeter	2,516	4,703	2,187
40	Poole	4,329	6,475	2,146
41	Eastbourne	2,356	4,416	2,060
42	Plymouth	6,087	7,978	1,891
43	Middlesbrough	3,552	5,387	1,835
44	Cambridge	2,294	4,070	1,776
45	Nottingham	5,989	7,461	1,472
46	Crawley	3,035	4,497	1,462
47	Oxford	3,163	4,560	1,397
48	Dundee	4,624	5,983	1,359
49	Glasgow	16,210	17,549	1,339
50	Manchester	10,282	11,565	1,283
51	Portsmouth	2,971	4,025	1,054
52	Gloucester	3,179	4,053	874
53	Slough	2,491	3,254	763
54	Bournemouth	3,938	4,618	680
55	Southend	3,528	4,176	648
56	Luton	3,715	4,335	620
57	Bristol	10,474	10,961	487
58	Blackpool	3,092	3,492	400
59	Liverpool	10,875	11,184	309
60	Wolverhampton	6,807	6,943	136
61	Ipswich	3,905	3,942	37
62	Westminster	2,208	2,148	-60
63	Southampton	5,056	4,984	-72
64	Leicester	7,449	7,332	-117
65	Watford	2,951	2,142	-809
66	Hull	8,044	7,145	-899
67	Norwich	4,975	3,902	-1,073
68	Reading	5,535	4,040	-1,495
69	London	157,208	290	-156,918
70	Sutton Coldfield	4,343	NO COUNCIL	NA
71	Huddersfield	4,110	NO COUNCIL	NA
72	West Bromwich	3,739	NO COUNCIL	NA

Notes

The town area refers to the urban area or urban sub-division area and the council area is the local authority area at the 2001 census.

The table includes every town with a population of over 100,000 and every council with a population of over 200,000 at the 2001 Census.

There are 6 towns with a town population of under 100,000 but a council population of over 200,000. They are Barnsley, Doncaster, Rochdale, Salford, Wakefield and Wigan.

There are 3 towns with a population of over 100,000 which don't have a council with the same name. They are Huddersfield (Kirklees Council), Sutton Coldfield (Birmingham Council) and West Bromwich (Sandwell Council).

The following sources were used to extract the area figures shown above:

Office for National Statistics (ONS)

Key Statistics for urban areas in England and Wales Table KS01 - released 17 June 2004
Key Statistics for local authorities in England and Wales Table KS01 - released on 13 February 2003

General Register Office for Scotland (GROS)

Key Statistics for Settlements and Localities Scotland Table KS01 - released 25 March 2003
Key Statistics for Council areas and Health Board areas Scotland Table KS01 - released 13 February 2003

Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA)

Northern Ireland Census 2001 Key Statistics for Settlements Table KS01 - released 10 February 2005
Northern Ireland Census 2001 Key Statistics (District Council Level) Table KS01 - released 19 December 2002

This page was last updated: 15 Juli 2006

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