List of English districts by population

List of the 326 districts of England by population, reported as the 2010 mid-year estimates from the Office for National Statistics

All listed below are non-metropolitan districts (201), except for the London boroughs (32), metropolitan boroughs (36), unitary authorities (55) and those that are labelled as sui generis (2).

More than 300,000

Rank	District	Population	Type	Ceremonial county
1	Birmingham	1,036,900	Metropolitan borough, City (1889)	West Midlands
2	Leeds	798,800	Metropolitan borough, City (1893)	West Yorkshire
3	Sheffield	555,500	Metropolitan borough, City (1893)	South Yorkshire
4	Cornwall	535,300	Unitary authority	Cornwall
5	Bradford	512,600	Metropolitan borough, City (1897)	West Yorkshire
6	County Durham	510,800	Unitary authority	County Durham
7	Manchester	498,800	Metropolitan borough, City (1853)	Greater Manchester
8	Wiltshire	459,800	Unitary authority	Wiltshire
9	Liverpool	445,200	Metropolitan borough, City (1880)	Merseyside
10	Bristol	441,300	Unitary authority, City (1542)	Bristol
11	Kirklees	409,800	Metropolitan borough	West Yorkshire
12	Cheshire East	363,800	Unitary authority	Cheshire
13	Barnet	348,200	London borough	Greater London
14	Croydon	345,600	London borough	Greater London
15	East Riding of Yorkshire	338,700	Unitary authority	East Riding of Yorkshire
16	Cheshire West and Chester	327,300	Unitary authority	Cheshire
17	Wakefield	325,600	Metropolitan borough, City (1888)	West Yorkshire
18	Ealing	318,500	London borough	Greater London
19	Coventry	315,700	Metropolitan borough, City (1345)	West Midlands
20	Bromley	312,400	London borough	Greater London
21	Northumberland	312,000	Unitary authority	Northumberland
22	Wirral	308,800	Metropolitan borough	Merseyside
23	Wigan	307,600	Metropolitan borough	Greater Manchester
24	Dudley	307,400	Metropolitan borough	West Midlands
25	Nottingham	306,700	Unitary authority, City (1897)	Nottinghamshire
26	Leicester	306,600	Unitary authority, City (1919)	Leicestershire

250,000 to 300,000

Rank	District	Population	Type	Ceremonial county
27	Enfield	294,900	London borough	Greater London
28	Shropshire	293,400	Unitary authority	Shropshire
29	Sandwell	292,800	Metropolitan borough	West Midlands
30	Newcastle upon Tyne	292,200	Metropolitan borough, City (1882)	Tyne and Wear
31	Doncaster	290,600	Metropolitan borough	South Yorkshire
32	Wandsworth	289,600	London borough	Greater London
33	Southwark	287,000	London borough	Greater London
34	Stockport	284,600	Metropolitan borough	Greater Manchester
35	Lambeth	284,500	London borough	Greater London
36	Sunderland	283,500	Metropolitan borough, City (1992)	Tyne and Wear
37	Sefton	272,900	Metropolitan borough	Merseyside
38	Redbridge	270,500	London borough	Greater London
39	Bolton	266,500	Metropolitan borough	Greater Manchester
40	Lewisham	266,500	London borough	Greater London
41	Hillingdon	266,100	London borough	Greater London
42	South Gloucestershire	264,800	Unitary authority	Gloucestershire
43	Hull	263,900	Unitary authority, City (1299)	East Riding of Yorkshire
44	Brighton & Hove	258,800	Unitary authority, City (2000)	East Sussex
45	Plymouth	258,700	Unitary authority, City (1928)	Devon
46	Walsall	256,900	Metropolitan borough	West Midlands
47	Medway	256,700	Unitary authority, Borough	Kent
48	Brent	256,600	London borough	Greater London
49	Central Bedfordshire	255,200	Unitary authority	Bedfordshire
50	Rotherham	254,600	Metropolitan borough	South Yorkshire
51	Westminster	253,100	London borough, City (1540)	Greater London

200,000 to 250,000

Rank	District	Population	Type	Ceremonial county
52	Derby	246,900	Unitary authority, City (1977)	Derbyshire
53	Milton Keynes	241,500	Unitary authority, Borough	Buckinghamshire
54	Stoke-on-Trent	240,100	Unitary authority, City (1925)	Staffordshire
55	Newham	240,100	London borough	Greater London
56	Southampton	239,700	Unitary authority, City (1964)	Hampshire
57	Wolverhampton	239,400	Metropolitan borough, City (2000)	West Midlands
58	Tower Hamlets	237,900	London borough	Greater London
59	Hounslow	236,800	London borough	Greater London
60	Havering	236,100	London borough	Greater London
61	Camden	235,400	London borough	Greater London
62	Harrow	230,100	London borough	Greater London
63	Salford	229,000	Metropolitan borough, City (1926)	Greater Manchester
64	Greenwich	228,500	London borough	Greater London
65	Bexley	228,000	London borough	Greater London
66	Barnsley	227,600	Metropolitan borough	South Yorkshire
67	Waltham Forest	227,100	London borough	Greater London
68	Haringey	225,000	London borough	Greater London
69	Oldham	219,800	Metropolitan borough	Greater Manchester
70	Hackney	219,200	London borough	Greater London
71	Trafford	217,300	Metropolitan borough	Greater Manchester
72	Tameside	216,900	Metropolitan borough	Greater Manchester
73	North Somerset	212,200	Unitary authority	Somerset
74	Northampton	212,100	Borough	Northamptonshire
75	Merton	208,800	London borough	Greater London
76	Portsmouth	207,100	Unitary authority, City (1926)	Hampshire
77	Solihull	206,100	Metropolitan borough	West Midlands
78	Rochdale	205,200	Metropolitan borough	Greater Manchester
79	Calderdale	202,700	Metropolitan borough	West Yorkshire
80	York	202,400	Unitary authority, City (TI)	North Yorkshire
81	Swindon	201,800	Unitary authority, Borough	Wiltshire

150,000 to 200,000

Rank	District	Population	Type	Ceremonial county
82	Warrington	198,900	Unitary authority, Borough	Cheshire
83	Luton	198,800	Unitary authority, Borough	Bedfordshire
84	North Tyneside	198,500	Metropolitan borough	Tyne and Wear
85	Sutton	194,200	London borough	Greater London
86	Islington	194,100	London borough	Greater London
87	Stockton-on-Tees	192,400	Unitary authority, Borough	Durham and North Yorkshire
88	Gateshead	191,700	Metropolitan borough	Tyne and Wear
89	Richmond upon Thames	190,900	London borough	Greater London
90	Bury	183,800	Metropolitan borough	Greater Manchester
91	Colchester	181,000	Borough	Essex
92	Bath and North East Somerset	179,700	Unitary authority	Somerset
93	Barking and Dagenham	179,700	London borough	Greater London
94	Herefordshire	179,300	Unitary authority	Herefordshire
95	St Helens	177,400	Metropolitan borough	Merseyside
96	New Forest	177,000		Hampshire
97	Basildon	175,200		Essex
98	Aylesbury Vale	174,400		Buckinghamshire
99	Peterborough	173,400	Unitary authority, City (1541)	Cambridgeshire
100	Hammersmith and Fulham	169,700	London borough	Greater London
101	Chelmsford	169,500	Borough	Essex
102	Kensington and Chelsea	169,500	London borough, Royal Borough	Greater London
103	Kingston upon Thames	169,000	London borough, Royal Borough	Greater London
104	Bournemouth	168,100	Unitary authority, Borough	Dorset
105	Huntingdonshire	167,300		Cambridgeshire
106	Charnwood	166,800	Borough	Leicestershire
107	Southend-on-Sea	165,300	Unitary authority, Borough	Essex
108	Basingstoke and Deane	165,100	Borough	Hampshire
109	Wycombe	164,800		Buckinghamshire
110	Wokingham	163,200	Unitary authority	Berkshire
111	Telford and Wrekin	162,600	Unitary authority, Borough	Shropshire
112	North Lincolnshire	161,300	Unitary authority, Borough	Lincolnshire
113	Bedford	160,800	Unitary authority, Borough	Bedfordshire
114	Thurrock	159,700	Unitary authority, Borough	Essex
115	Harrogate	158,700		North Yorkshire
116	South Somerset	158,600		Somerset
117	North East Lincolnshire	157,300	Unitary authority, Borough	Lincolnshire
118	Reading	154,200	Unitary authority, Borough	Berkshire
119	West Berkshire	154,000	Unitary authority	Berkshire
120	South Tyneside	153,700	Metropolitan borough	Tyne and Wear
121	Oxford	153,700	City (1542)	Oxfordshire
122	Canterbury	153,200	City (TI)	Kent
123	Arun	150,600		West Sussex

125,000 to 150,000

Rank	District	Population	Type	Ceremonial county
124	Maidstone	149,800	Borough	Kent
125	Knowsley	149,100	Metropolitan borough	Merseyside
126	Tendring	148,500		Essex
127	South Cambridgeshire	146,400		Cambridgeshire
128	Windsor and Maidenhead	146,100	Unitary authority, Royal Borough	Berkshire
129	Wealden	144,100		East Sussex
130	Braintree	144,000		Essex
131	King's Lynn and West Norfolk	143,600	Borough	Norfolk
132	Norwich	143,500	City (1195)	Norfolk
133	Dacorum	142,900	Borough	Hertfordshire
134	Middlesbrough	142,400	Unitary authority, Borough	North Yorkshire
135	Poole	142,100	Unitary authority, Borough	Dorset
136	East Lindsey	141,600		Lincolnshire
137	Lancaster	141,100	City (1937)	Lancashire
138	Isle of Wight	140,500	Unitary authority, County	Isle of Wight
139	Cherwell	140,400		Oxfordshire
140	Blackburn with Darwen	140,000	Unitary authority, Borough	Lancashire
141	Blackpool	140,000	Unitary authority, Borough	Lancashire
142	Warwick	138,800		Warwickshire
143	St Albans	138,800	City (1877)	Hertfordshire
144	Reigate and Banstead	138,600	Borough	Surrey
145	East Hertfordshire	138,500		Hertfordshire
146	Redcar and Cleveland	137,400	Unitary authority, Borough	North Yorkshire
147	Guildford	137,100	Borough	Surrey
148	Preston	135,100	City (2002)	Lancashire
149	Torbay	134,300	Unitary authority, Borough	Devon
150	Swale	133,400	Borough	Kent
151	East Devon	132,900		Devon
152	Mid Sussex	132,500		West Sussex
153	South Kesteven	132,300		Lincolnshire
154	Thanet	132,200		Kent
155	Elmbridge	131,900	Borough	Surrey
156	Slough	131,100	Unitary authority, Borough	Berkshire
157	South Oxfordshire	131,000		Oxfordshire
158	Breckland	130,900		Norfolk
159	Horsham	130,800		West Sussex
160	Ipswich	128,300	Borough	Suffolk
161	Teignbridge	127,300		Devon
162	Stafford	126,000		Staffordshire
163	North Hertfordshire	125,800		Hertfordshire
164	Cambridge	125,700	City (1951)	Cambridgeshire

100,000 to 125,000

Rank	District	Population	Type	Ceremonial county
165	Epping Forest (district)	124,700		Essex
166	Newcastle-under-Lyme	124,500	Borough	Staffordshire
167	Suffolk Coastal	124,300		Suffolk
168	Broadland	123,700		Norfolk
169	Eastleigh	122,400	Borough	Hampshire
170	Nuneaton and Bedworth	122,200	Borough	Warwickshire
171	South Norfolk	121,800		Norfolk
172	Amber Valley	121,600	Borough	Derbyshire
173	Waverley	120,300	Borough	Surrey
174	Vale of White Horse	119,800		Oxfordshire
175	Exeter	119,600	City (TI)	Devon
176	Halton	119,300	Unitary authority, Borough	Cheshire
177	Stratford-on-Avon	119,000		Warwickshire
178	Tonbridge and Malling	118,800	Borough	Kent
179	Gloucester	118,400	City (1541)	Gloucestershire
180	Waveney	117,500		Suffolk
181	Wychavon	117,000		Worcestershire
182	Ashfield	117,000		Nottinghamshire
183	Havant	116,800	Borough	Hampshire
184	Bracknell Forest	116,500	Unitary authority, Borough	Berkshire
185	Ashford	115,500	Borough	Kent
186	Cheltenham	115,300	Borough	Gloucestershire
187	Welwyn Hatfield	114,400		Hertfordshire
188	Winchester	114,300	City (TI)	Hampshire
189	Sevenoaks	114,100		Kent
190	Newark and Sherwood	113,600		Nottinghamshire
191	Chichester	113,500		West Sussex
192	Test Valley	113,500	Borough	Hampshire
193	Gedling	113,200	Borough	Nottinghamshire
194	Sedgemoor	112,800		Somerset
195	Rushcliffe	112,800	Borough	Nottinghamshire
196	East Hampshire	112,600		Hampshire
197	Fareham	112,100	Borough	Hampshire
198	Bassetlaw	111,800		Nottinghamshire
199	Broxtowe	111,800	Borough	Nottinghamshire
200	Stroud	111,700		Gloucestershire
201	Wyre	111,400	Borough	Lancashire
202	Erewash	111,300	Borough	Derbyshire
203	West Lancashire	110,300		Lancashire
204	Taunton Deane	109,400	Borough	Somerset
205	East Staffordshire	109,400	Borough	Staffordshire
206	Mendip	109,000		Somerset
207	Scarborough	108,600	Borough	North Yorkshire
208	South Ribble	108,300	Borough	Lancashire
209	Tunbridge Wells	108,200	Borough	Kent
210	Crawley	107,600	Borough	West Sussex
211	Dover	106,900		Kent
212	South Staffordshire	106,600		Staffordshire
213	North Kesteven	106,400		Lincolnshire
214	Chorley	105,400	Borough	Lancashire
215	Hinckley and Bosworth	105,100	Borough	Leicestershire
216	Carlisle	104,500	City (TI)	Cumbria
217	St Edmundsbury	104,500	Borough	Suffolk
218	West Oxfordshire	103,800		Oxfordshire
219	South Lakeland	103,700		Cumbria
220	Worthing	103,200	Borough	West Sussex
221	North Norfolk	101,700		Norfolk
222	Shepway	101,200		Kent
223	Chesterfield	101,000	Borough	Derbyshire
224	Darlington	100,800	Unitary authority, Borough	Durham

75,000 to 100,000

Rank	District	Population	Type	Ceremonial county
225	Hertsmere	99,900	Borough	Hertfordshire
226	Gravesham	99,600	Borough	Kent
227	Mansfield	99,600		Nottinghamshire
228	Lichfield	98,700		Staffordshire
229	North East Derbyshire	98,300		Derbyshire
230	Wyre Forest	98,100		Worcestershire
231	Lewes	97,500		East Sussex
232	Great Yarmouth	97,200	Borough	Norfolk
233	Eastbourne	97,000	Borough	East Sussex
234	West Dorset	96,700		Dorset
235	Staffordshire Moorlands	95,400		Staffordshire
236	Mid Suffolk	95,000		Suffolk
237	Worcester	94,800	City (1189)	Worcestershire
238	Cannock Chase	94,700		Staffordshire
239	Dartford	94,600	Borough	Kent
240	Rugby	94,200	Borough	Warwickshire
241	Allerdale	94,100	Borough	Cumbria
242	Blaby	94,000		Leicestershire
243	South Derbyshire	93,900		Derbyshire
244	Woking	93,500	Borough	Surrey
245	Spelthorne	93,500	Borough	Surrey
246	Bromsgrove	93,400		Worcestershire
247	High Peak	92,600	Borough	Derbyshire
248	Rushmoor	92,000	Borough	Hampshire
249	Fenland	91,900		Cambridgeshire
250	North Devon	91,500		Devon
251	Chiltern	91,400		Buckinghamshire
252	Hartlepool	91,300	Unitary authority, Borough	Durham
253	Hart	91,200		Hampshire
254	North West Leicestershire	90,800		Leicestershire
255	Kettering	90,600	Borough	Northamptonshire
256	Broxbourne	90,600	Borough	Hertfordshire
257	Rother	89,800		East Sussex
258	Lincoln	89,700	City (TI)	Lincolnshire
259	West Lindsey	89,400		Lincolnshire
260	Castle Point	89,400	Borough	Essex
261	Pendle	89,300	Borough	Lancashire
262	Three Rivers	88,900		Hertfordshire
263	South Northamptonshire	88,800		Northamptonshire
264	East Dorset	87,800		Dorset
265	Hambleton	87,600		North Yorkshire
266	Hastings	87,200	Borough	East Sussex
267	Watford	86,000	Borough	Hertfordshire
268	Runnymede	85,900	Borough	Surrey
269	Babergh	85,600		Suffolk
270	East Northamptonshire	85,300		Northamptonshire
271	Burnley	85,300	Borough	Lancashire
272	East Cambridgeshire	84,900		Cambridgeshire
273	South Holland	84,600		Lincolnshire
274	Mole Valley	84,600		Surrey
275	Surrey Heath	84,500	Borough	Surrey
276	Harborough	84,000		Leicestershire
277	South Hams	83,700		Devon
278	Cotswold	83,500		Gloucestershire
279	Rochford	83,400		Essex
280	Tandridge	83,100		Surrey
281	Selby	82,900		North Yorkshire
282	Forest of Dean	82,900		Gloucestershire
283	Stevenage	81,800	Borough	Hertfordshire
284	Tewkesbury	81,700	Borough	Gloucestershire
285	Harlow	81,700		Essex
286	Hyndburn	81,100	Borough	Lancashire
287	Gosport	80,000	Borough	Hampshire
288	Daventry	79,000		Northamptonshire
289	Redditch	78,700	Borough	Worcestershire
290	Uttlesford	77,500		Essex
291	Fylde	76,600	Borough	Lancashire
292	Mid Devon	76,100		Devon
293	Tamworth	76,000	Borough	Staffordshire
294	Wellingborough	75,700	Borough	Northamptonshire
295	Malvern Hills	75,400		Worcestershire

50,000 to 75,000

Rank	District	Population	Type	Ceremonial county
296	Brentwood	74,800	Borough	Essex
297	Bolsover	74,600		Derbyshire
298	Epsom and Ewell	74,300	Borough	Surrey
299	Barrow-in-Furness	70,700	Borough	Cumbria
300	Derbyshire Dales	70,400		Derbyshire
301	Copeland	69,500	Borough	Cumbria
302	South Bucks	67,500		Buckinghamshire
303	Rossendale	67,400	Borough	Lancashire
304	Torridge	65,800		Devon
305	Forest Heath	64,300		Suffolk
306	North Dorset	64,200		Dorset
307	Weymouth and Portland	63,500	Borough	Dorset
308	Maldon	63,200		Essex
309	North Warwickshire	61,900	Borough	Warwickshire
310	Adur	61,600		West Sussex
311	Boston	59,000	Borough	Lincolnshire
312	Oadby and Wigston	58,500	Borough	Leicestershire
313	Ribble Valley	58,000	Borough	Lancashire
314	Corby	55,800	Borough	Northamptonshire
315	Craven	55,400		North Yorkshire
316	Ryedale	53,600		North Yorkshire
317	West Devon	53,100	Borough	Devon
318	Richmondshire	53,000		North Yorkshire
319	Eden	51,800		Cumbria

Below 50,000

Rank	District	Population	Type	Ceremonial county
320	Melton	49,500	Borough	Leicestershire
321	Christchurch	47,300	Borough	Dorset
322	Purbeck	45,200		Dorset
323	Rutland	38,600	Unitary authority	Rutland
324	West Somerset	35,400		Somerset
325	City of London	11,700	City (TI), sui generis	City of London
326	Isles of Scilly	2,100	sui generis	Cornwall

See also

• List of urban areas in England by population
• List of English counties by population
• List of ceremonial counties of England by population
• List of English districts by area
• List of English districts by ethnic diversity
• List of English districts by population density
• List of districts in south east England by population

• List of Welsh principal areas by population
• List of Northern Ireland districts by population
• List of Scottish council areas by population density
• List of Scottish districts by population

References

• "Table 8a Mid-2010 Population Estimates: Selected age groups for local authorities in the United Kingdom; estimated resident population.". Population Estimates for UK, England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, Mid-2010. Office for National Statistics. 3 June 2011. http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/publications/re-reference-tables.html?edition=tcm%3A77-231847. Retrieved 1 October 2011.