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

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

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