Greater Manchester Built-up Area

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Greater Manchester Built-up Area
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A map of the Greater Manchester Built-up Area according to the 2011 census, with Travel to Work Areas overlaid. Manchester is highlighted in orange
Coordinates: 53°30′N2°18′W / 53.5°N 2.3°W / 53.5; -2.3
Sovereign state Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom
Constituent country Flag of England.svg England
Largest settlements
Population
   Conurbation
3,009,684
  Rank 2nd
   Urban
2,720,316
Time zone UTC+0 (GMT)
  Summer (DST) UTC+1 (BST)
Postcode
BL, M, OL, SK, WA, WN
Area codes 01204, 01457, 0161, 01625, 01706, 01925, 01942

The Greater Manchester Built-up Area is an area of land defined by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), consisting of the large conurbation that encompasses the urban element of the city of Manchester and the metropolitan area that forms much of Greater Manchester in North West England. According to the United Kingdom Census 2011, the Greater Manchester Built-up Area has a population of 2,553,379 [1] making it the second most populous conurbation in the United Kingdom after the Greater London Built-up Area. This was an increase of 14% from the population recorded at the United Kingdom Census 2001 of 2,240,230, when it was known as the Greater Manchester Urban Area. [2]

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The Greater Manchester Built-up Area is not conterminous with Greater Manchester, a metropolitan county of the same name (and, until 1974, part of the counties of Lancashire, Cheshire and Yorkshire) for it excludes settlements such as Wigan and Marple from Greater Manchester, but includes hinterland settlements which lie outside its statutory boundaries, such as Wilmslow in Cheshire, Glossop in Derbyshire, Whitworth in Lancashire and Newton-le-Willows in Merseyside.

Constituent parts

The Greater Manchester Urban Area in 2001 Greater Manchester Urban Area 2001.svg
The Greater Manchester Urban Area in 2001
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An aerial photograph looking west, centred on Manchester and Salford

The largest settlements (in descending order of population) within the Greater Manchester Built-up Area are Manchester, Bolton, Stockport, Oldham, Rochdale, Salford, and Bury. These settlements are not coterminous with the metropolitan boroughs of the same name, and the ONS takes some of its settlement boundaries within the conurbation from the contiguous urban core of pre-Local Government Act 1972 local government districts. This means that the GMUA bears a much closer resemblance to the earlier "SELNEC" area than to the Greater Manchester Metropolitan County. Unlike urban areas that expanded outwards around a central core of employment, the Greater Manchester Urban Area was formed from the inward expansion of several large manufacturing towns towards a centralised marketplace for the trading of goods and raw materials.

Wigan is separate from the Greater Manchester Built-up Area, although eastern parts of the wider Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, such as Leigh, Tyldesley and Atherton are included. Wigan and Ince-in-Makerfield are included in a separate Wigan Urban Area, which includes places outside Greater Manchester. The gap is formed between Ince-in-Makerfield (of Wigan Urban Area) and Hindley (Greater Manchester Urban Area).

Other built-up areas, including New Mills and the rest of High Peak, are narrowly avoided as is Ashton-in-Makerfield (which is included in the Liverpool Urban Area) and much of the parish of Saddleworth.

Settlements

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Skyline of Manchester.
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Skyline of Salford.
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Bolton Town Hall
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Sale Town Hall

According to the ONS definitions the Greater Manchester Built-up Area consists of the following settlements:

RankUrban subdivision2011 [1] 2001 [3] 1991 [4] 1981 [5] Extent
1 Manchester 510,746394,269402,889448,604 [6]
2 Bolton 194,189139,403139,020143,921 [7]
3 Sale 134,02255,23456,05257,933 [8]
4 Rochdale 107,92695,79694,31397,942 [9]
5 Stockport 105,878136,082132,813136,792 [10]
6 Salford 103,88672,75079,75598,343 [11]
7 Oldham 96,555103,544103,931107,830 [12]
8 Bury 77,21160,71862,63362,181
9 Atherton 70,54220,30221,69622,032
10 Altrincham 52,41940,69540,04239,693
11 Ashton-under-Lyne 45,19843,23643,90644,196
12 Middleton 42,97245,31445,62151,437
13 Urmston 41,82540,96441,80444,030
14 Eccles 38,75636,61036,00037,792
15 Denton 36,59126,86637,78537,724
16 Wilmslow 35,94528,60428,933
17 Chadderton 34,81833,00134,02633,518
18 Romiley 34,696
19 Hyde 34,00331,25330,66630,551
20 Glossop 33,020
21 Radcliffe 29,95034,23932,56727,642
22 Heywood 28,20528,02429,28629,686
23 Farnworth 26,93925,26425,05326,148
24 Stretford 46,81342,10343,95347,771
25 Stalybridge 26,48222,56822,92123,668
26 Swinton 25,36224,18321,42518,235
# Westhoughton 24,97422,34515,31512,525
27 Hindley 24,49723,45722,58121,493
28 Cheadle Hulme 24,36223,253
29 Golborne 24,167
30 Droylsden 24,13423,17222,66622,624
31 Royton 23,81222,23821,47521,098
32 Newton-le-Willows 22,114
33 Walkden 21,19436,21838,68539,466
34 Gatley 20,997
35 Whitefield 20,97523,28422,78327,650
36 Dukinfield 20,90918,88517,91717,501
37 Irlam 19,93319,01818,504
38 Horwich 19,49218,28918,01716,769
39 Hazel Grove 19,365
40 Failsworth 18,84420,00720,16020,951
41 Shaw 18,815
42 Ramsbottom 17,87217,35217,31816,334
43 Bramhall 17,436
44 Hale 16,62415,31615,86816,308
45 Tyldesley 16,14234,02230,60627,903
46 Poynton 15,28214,03814,76815,078
47 Cheadle 13,467
48 Uppermill 13,448
49 Lees 13,062
50 Little Lever 12,80311,08211,58912,062
51 Littleborough 12,37013,80713,63813,787
52 Kearsley 11,1509,9069,2879,666
53 Mossley 10,77210,5698,865
54 Milnrow 10,01512,77612,54111,631
55 Worsley 9,108
56 Partington 7,9127,7239,109
57 Whitworth 7,5005,6725,6795,682
58 Hadfield 6,305
59 Hattersley 4,825
60 Blackrod 4,548
61 Gamesley 3,263
Cheadle and Gatley 57,50758,45759,828
Leigh 43,00643,15042,929
Swinton and Pendlebury 41,34743,15544,508
Hazel Grove and Bramhall 38,72439,73040,680
Wilmslow/Alderley Edge 34,087
Prestwich 31,69331,80132,035
Bredbury and Romiley 28,16728,20528,558
Bromley Cross/Bradshaw 22,74722,01721,728
Shaw and Crompton 19,33519,34819,258
Audenshaw 12,79013,17310,771
Longdendale 8,68010,89012,901
Handforth 8,014
Tottington 7,5457,6736,745
Wardle 7,0926,6222,149
Brinnington 6,759
Bowdon 6,0795,1414,894
Alderley Edge 5,2805,009
Buckton Vale 3,5923,457

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See also

References

  1. 1 2 "2011 Census - Built-up areas". ONS . Retrieved 4 July 2013.
  2. Key Statistics for urban areas in England and Wales Archived 2006-02-15 at the Wayback Machine , 2001 Census. URL accessed February 21, 2007.
  3. "Census 2001 Key Statistics - Urban area results by population size of urban area", ons.gov.uk, Office for National Statistics, KS01 Usual resident population Page white excel.png, 22 July 2004, retrieved 7 December 2008
  4. Greater Manchester Urban Area 1991 Census, National Statistics, archived from the original on 5 February 2009, retrieved 7 December 2008
  5. 1981 Key Statistics for Urban Areas: The North Table 1, Office for National Statistics, 1981
  6. Manchester Urban Subdivision, Nomis, retrieved 4 July 2013
  7. Bolton Urban Subdivision, Nomis, retrieved 4 July 2013
  8. Sale Urban Subdivision, Nomis, retrieved 4 July 2013
  9. Rochdale Urban Subdivision, Nomis, retrieved 4 July 2013
  10. Stockport Urban Subdivision, Nomis, retrieved 4 July 2013
  11. Salford Urban Subdivision, Nomis, retrieved 4 July 2013
  12. Oldham Urban Subdivision, Nomis, retrieved 4 July 2013