Greater Glasgow
Greater Glasgow
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Satellite image showing the Greater Glasgow Area | |
Area | 265 km2 (102 sq mi) [1] |
Population | 1,028,220 (2020)[2] |
Language | English, Scots, Gaelic[3] |
OS grid reference | NS590655 |
• Edinburgh | 42 mi (68 km) |
• London | 403 mi (649 km) |
Country | Scotland |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | GLASGOW |
Postcode district | G1–G84 |
Post town | PAISLEY |
Postcode district | PA1–PA19 |
Post town | MOTHERWELL |
Postcode district | ML1–ML8 |
Dialling code | 0141, 01236, 01355, 01360, 01389, 01505, 01698, 01475 |
Greater Glasgow is an urban settlement in Scotland consisting of all localities which are physically attached to the city of
A more extensive Greater Glasgow concept covers a much larger area and may include Ayrshire down to Ayr as well as the whole of Lanarkshire down to Lanark, Dunbartonshire, Renfrewshire, and Inverclyde. At present, the Glasgow City Region consists of the Glasgow City Council, North Lanarkshire, South Lanarkshire, West Dunbartonshire, East Dunbartonshire, Renfrewshire, East Renfrewshire, and Inverclyde Local Authorities, with a combined population of over 1.7 million. This city-region is described as a metropolitan area by its own strategic planning authority and is similar to the Glasgow metropolitan area identified by the European Union.
The City of Glasgow grew substantially in population during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, becoming in 1912 the eighth city in Europe to reach the one million mark after
Urban Area
Following the local government boundary changes in 1996 and the creation of the present day
Locality | Council area | Population
(1991 census) |
Population
(2001 census)[4] |
Population
(2016 estimate)[6] |
Population
(2020 estimate)[2] |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Airdrie[a] | North Lanarkshire | 12,436 | 36,326 | 37,410 | 36,390 |
Bargeddie[a] | North Lanarkshire | 2,325 | 2,790 | 2,960 | 3,210 |
Barrhead[b] | East Renfrewshire | 16,703 | 17,443 | 17,610 | 17,890 |
Bearsden | East Dunbartonshire | 27,707 | 27,967 | 28,120 | 28,470 |
Bellshill[a] | North Lanarkshire | 20,075 | 20,134 | 20,290 | 19,700 |
Bishopbriggs | East Dunbartonshire | 23,825 | 23,118 | 23,540 | 23,680 |
Blantyre[a] | South Lanarkshire | 16,900 | 16,800 | ||
Bothwell[a] | South Lanarkshire | 6,380 | 6,870 | ||
Bowling | West Dunbartonshire | 5,500 | 5,500 | 560 | 560 |
Brookfield[c] | Renfrewshire | 540 | 880 | ||
Busby | East Renfrewshire | 1,617 | 1,654 | 3,250 | 3,310 |
Cambuslang | South Lanarkshire | 23,212 | 24,500 | 29,100 | 30,790 |
Chapelhall[a] | North Lanarkshire | 4,405 | 5,691 | 6,690 | 7,140 |
Chryston[a] | North Lanarkshire | 3,000 | 3,100 | ||
Clarkston | East Renfrewshire | 18,899 | 19,136 | 9,860 | 9,800 |
Clydebank | West Dunbartonshire | 29,171 | 29,858 | 26,320 | 25,620 |
Coatbridge[a] | North Lanarkshire | 40,320 | 41,170 | 43,960 | 43,950 |
Duntocher and Hardgate | West Dunbartonshire | 7,882 | 7,301 | 6,880 | 6,680 |
Elderslie | Renfrewshire | 5,166 | 5,180 | 5,330 | 5,480 |
Erskine[a] | Renfrewshire | 15,166 | 15,347 | 15,510 | 15,010 |
Faifley | West Dunbartonshire | 6,087 | 4,932 | 4,860 | 4,740 |
Gartcosh[a] | North Lanarkshire | 2,200 | 2,920 | ||
Giffnock | East Renfrewshire | 16,190 | 16,178 | 12,300 | 12,250 |
Glasgow | Glasgow City
|
658,379 | 629,501 | 612,040 | 632,350 |
Hamilton[a] | South Lanarkshire | 44,658 | 53,457 | 54,080 | 54,480 |
Inchinnan[a] | Renfrewshire | 1,233 | 1,574 | 1,860 | 1,820 |
Johnstone | Renfrewshire | 18,280 | 16,468 | 16,090 | 15,930 |
Kilbarchan | Renfrewshire | 3,710 | 3,622 | 3,480 | 3,300 |
Linwood | Renfrewshire | 10,183 | 9,058 | 8,600 | 8,450 |
Milngavie | East Dunbartonshire | 11,992 | 12,795 | 12,940 | 12,840 |
Moodiesburn[a] | North Lanarkshire | 6,890 | 6,830 | ||
Motherwell[a] | North Lanarkshire | 27,426 | 30,301 | 32,590 | 32,840 |
Muirhead[a] | North Lanarkshire | 1,380 | 1,830 | ||
Netherlee | East Renfrewshire | 4,600 | 4,530 | ||
Newton Mearns | East Renfrewshire | 19,342 | 22,637 | 26,600 | 28,210 |
Old Kilpatrick | West Dunbartonshire | 2,408 | 3,199 | 4,680 | 4,470 |
Paisley | Renfrewshire | 73,925 | 74,170 | 77,220 | 77,270 |
Renfrew
|
Renfrewshire | 20,764 | 20,251 | 22,570 | 24,270 |
Rutherglen | South Lanarkshire | 25,000 | 25,000 | 31,190 | 30,950 |
Stamperland | East Renfrewshire | 3,640 | 3,630 | ||
Stepps | North Lanarkshire | 4,942 | 4,802 | 7,450 | 7,700 |
Thornliebank | East Renfrewshire | 3,980 | 4,051 | 4,070 | 4,170 |
Uddingston[a] | South Lanarkshire | 6,370 | 6,300 | ||
Wishaw[a] | North Lanarkshire | 26,439 | 28,564 | 30,290 | 30,050 |
Transport
In 1973, the Greater Glasgow Passenger Transport Executive (later Strathclyde Passenger Transport Executive from 1983 and Strathclyde Passenger Transport Authority from 1996) was created to take over control of Glasgow Corporation Transport (which included the
The city is served by the only metro system in Scotland, the Glasgow Subway; and by two international airports, Glasgow Prestwick Airport[8] and Glasgow Airport.[9]
Glasgow City Region
The Glasgow City Region[10] is a collection of local authorities clustered around Glasgow.[11] The eight constituent authorities are:
- Glasgow
- East Dunbartonshire
- West Dunbartonshire
- North Lanarkshire
- South Lanarkshire
- East Renfrewshire
- Renfrewshire
- Inverclyde
The population of this area in 2011 was 1,787,515. The city region is not a conurbation as significant parts of the council areas (and the whole of Inverclyde) are separated from Greater Glasgow by open countryside. It uses numerous other terms for itself, including Metropolitan Glasgow,[10] the metropolitan City-Region of Glasgow,[12] Glasgow and the Clyde Valley and Clydeside.
As a collection of individual local authorities the city region has no single municipal government however, following the agreement of a City Deal with the
Metropolitan Glasgow
While the Scottish Government makes no official recognition of 'Metropolitan status' in its workings,
The former local government region of Strathclyde has also been identified as a metropolitan area surrounding the Greater Glasgow conurbation, and covers approximately 2.3 million people, 41% of Scotland's population.[17]
See also
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