This is a list of two-tier counties of England by population.
It includes those non-metropolitan counties (also known as shire counties) with a two-tier county council structure and does not include metropolitan counties or unitary authorities.
In cases where a unitary authority has been detached from a shire county the population of the unitary authority is excluded. For example, Peterborough is excluded from the population figure for Cambridgeshire.
The figures are mid-year estimates for 2011 from the Office for National Statistics.
Rank | County | Population | Area |
Density |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Kent | 1,466,500 | 3,544 | 414 |
2 | Essex | 1,396,600 | 3,464 | 403 |
3 | Hampshire | 1,322,300 | 3,679 | 359 |
4 | Lancashire | 1,171,600 | 2,903 | 404 |
5 | Surrey | 1,135,500 | 1,663 | 683 |
6 | Hertfordshire | 1,119,800 | 1,643 | 682 |
7 | Norfolk | 859,400 | 5,371 | 160 |
8 | Staffordshire | 849,600 | 2,620 | 324 |
9 | West Sussex | 808,900 | 1,990 | 406 |
10 | Nottinghamshire | 786,700 | 2,085 | 377 |
11 | Derbyshire | 770,600 | 2,547 | 303 |
12 | Devon | 747,900 | 6,564 | 114 |
13 | Suffolk | 730,100 | 3,800 | 192 |
14 | Lincolnshire | 714,800 | 5,921 | 121 |
15 | Northamptonshire | 693,900 | 2,364 | 294 |
16 | Oxfordshire | 654,800 | 2,605 | 251 |
17 | Leicestershire | 651,200 | 2,083 | 313 |
18 | Cambridgeshire | 622,200 | 3,046 | 204 |
19 | North Yorkshire | 601,200 | 8,038 | 75 |
20 | Gloucestershire | 598,300 | 2,653 | 225 |
21 | Worcestershire | 566,500 | 1,741 | 325 |
22 | Warwickshire | 546,500 | 1,975 | 277 |
23 | Somerset | 531,600 | 3,451 | 154 |
24 | East Sussex | 527,200 | 1,709 | 309 |
25 | Buckinghamshire | 506,700 | 1,565 | 324 |
26 | Cumbria | 499,800 | 6,767 | 74 |
27 | Dorset | 413,800 | 2,542 | 163 |
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