List of settlements in Greater Manchester by population
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List of Greater Manchester settlements by population
)The 26 largest settlements of the county of Greater Manchester, with cities in bold, district centres in yellow, and key towns and areas in white.
This is a list of settlements in Greater Manchester by population based on the results of the
2021. In 2011, there were 61 built-up area subdivisions with 5,000 or more inhabitants in Greater Manchester
, shown in the table below.
Administrative boundaries
Table taken from the Greater Manchester article:
Metropolitan county | Metropolitan district | Centre of administration | Other components | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Greater Manchester | 1 | Manchester | Manchester
(City Centre) |
Ringway, Withington, Wythenshawe
| |
2 | Stockport | Stockport | Bramhall, Bredbury, Cheadle, Gatley, Hazel Grove, Marple, Reddish, Romiley | ||
3 | Tameside | Ashton-under-Lyne | Audenshaw, Denton, Droylsden, Dukinfield, Hyde, Longdendale, Mossley, Stalybridge | ||
4 | Oldham | Oldham | Chadderton, Shaw and Crompton, Failsworth, Lees, Royton, Saddleworth | ||
5 | Rochdale | Rochdale | Heywood, Littleborough, Middleton, Milnrow, Newhey, Wardle | ||
6 | Bury | Bury | Prestwich, Radcliffe, Ramsbottom, Tottington, Whitefield | ||
7 | Bolton | Bolton | Blackrod, Farnworth, Horwich, Kearsley, Little Lever, South Turton, Westhoughton | ||
8 | Wigan | Wigan | Abram, Ashton-in-Makerfield, Aspull, Astley, Atherton, Bryn, Golborne, Higher End, Hindley, Ince-in-Makerfield, Leigh, Orrell, Standish, Shevington, Tyldesley, Winstanley | ||
9 | Salford | Swinton | |||
10 | Trafford | Stretford |
Population ranking
# | Settlement | Population[1] | |
---|---|---|---|
Census 2001 | Census 2011 | ||
1 | Manchester‡ (see notes) | 405,300 | 510,746 |
2 | Bolton | 182,980 | 194,189 |
3 | Sale | 122,990 | 134,022 |
4 | Rochdale | 102,080 | 107,926 |
5 | Stockport | 106,170 | 105,878 |
6 | Salford
|
88,460 | 103,886 |
7 | Wigan | 98,480 | 103,608 |
8 | Oldham | 103,544 | 96,555 |
9 | Bury | 74,540 | 77,211 |
10 | Leigh/Atherton | 65,980 | 70,542 |
11 | Altrincham | 46,460 | 52,419 |
12 | Ashton-under-Lyne | 43,240 | 45,198 |
13 | Middleton | 42,625 | 42,972 |
14 | Urmston | 41,263 | 41,825 |
15 | Eccles | 37,861 | 38,756 |
16 | Denton | 36,877 | 36,591 |
17 | Chadderton | 33,000 | 34,818 |
18 | Romiley | 34,926 | 34,696 |
19 | Hyde | 31,610 | 34,003 |
20 | Radcliffe | 28,960 | 29,950 |
21 | Ashton-in-Makerfield | 28,856 | 28,762 |
22 | Heywood | 28,330 | 28,205 |
23 | Farnworth | 25,677 | 26,939 |
24 | Stretford | 24,842 | 26,813 |
25 | Stalybridge | 24,900 | 26,482 |
26 | Swinton | 25,046 | 25,362 |
27 | Hindley | 22,920 | 24,497 |
28 | Cheadle Hulme | 24,495 | 24,362 |
29 | Golborne | 23,119 | 24,167 |
30 | Droylsden | 24,170 | 24,134 |
31 | Westhoughton | 22,190 | 24,126 |
32 | Royton | 23,670 | 23,812 |
33 | Walkden | 20,847 | 21,194 |
34 | Gatley | 20,583 | 20,997 |
35 | Whitefield | 20,877 | 20,975 |
36 | Dukinfield | 20,507 | 20,909 |
37 | Irlam | 19,020 | 19,933 |
38 | Horwich | 18,610 | 19,492 |
39 | Hazel Grove | 19,153 | 19,365 |
40 | Failsworth | 19,279 | 18,844 |
41 | Shaw
|
19,335 | 18,815 |
42 | Marple | 18,742 | 18,241 |
43 | Ramsbottom | 17,900 | 17,872 |
44 | Bramhall | 17,747 | 17,436 |
45 | Hale | 15,316 | 16,624 |
46 | Tyldesley | 15,583 | 16,142 |
47 | Standish | 13,580 | 13,701 |
48 | Cheadle | 13,374 | 13,467 |
49 | Uppermill | 12,647 | 13,448 |
50 | Lees | 12,600 | 13,062 |
51 | Little Lever | 12,570 | 12,803 |
52 | Littleborough | 12,260 | 12,370 |
53 | Ince-in-Makerfield | 10,680 | 12,243 |
54 | Kearsley | 10,460 | 11,150 |
55 | Mossley | 9,710 | 10,772 |
56 | Platt Bridge/Abram | 9,010 | 10,315 |
57 | Milnrow | 9,896 | 10,015 |
58 | Worsley | 9,465 | 9,108 |
59 | Partington | 7,327 | 7,912 |
60 | Shevington Vale/Appley Bridge†
(see notes below) |
5,155 | 5,197 |
61 | Shevington | 5,292 | 5,114 |
62 | Aspull | 4,977 | 4,899 |
63 | Hattersley | 4,777 | 4,825 |
64 | High Lane
|
4,772 | 4,608 |
65 | Blackrod | 4,975 | 4,548 |
Notes:
- ‡ Prestwich (Bury) included in count.
- † Shevington Vale merges into Appley Bridge which is in Lancashire, their population has been added to the ONS statistics.
See also
References
- ^ "Greater Manchester (Metropolitan County, North West England, United Kingdom) - Population Statistics and Location in Maps and Charts". www.citypopulation.de. Retrieved 10 November 2016.