Most populous council areas in Great Britain

Local authorities ranked by usual-resident population.

#	Local authority	County	Figure
1	Birmingham	West Midlands	1,144,918
2	Leeds	West Yorkshire	811,953
3	Glasgow City	City of Glasgow	654,330
4	North Yorkshire	North Yorkshire	615,491
5	Somerset	Somerset	571,548
6	Cornwall	Cornwall	570,308
7	Sheffield	South Yorkshire	556,523
8	Buckinghamshire	Buckinghamshire	553,079
9	Manchester	Greater Manchester	551,937
10	Bradford	West Yorkshire	546,410
11	City of Edinburgh	City of Edinburgh	531,370
12	County Durham	Durham	522,068
13	Wiltshire	Wiltshire	510,333
14	Liverpool	Merseyside	486,088
15	Bristol, City of	Bristol	472,464
16	Kirklees	West Yorkshire	433,216
17	West Northamptonshire	Northamptonshire	425,727
18	Bournemouth, Christchurch an	Dorset	400,198
19	Cheshire East	Cheshire	398,772
20	Croydon	Greater London	390,719
21	Barnet	Greater London	389,341
22	Dorset	Dorset	379,579
23	Fife	Fife	373,990
24	Leicester	Leicestershire	368,569
25	Ealing	Greater London	367,114
26	Cardiff	South Glamorgan	362,308
27	North Northamptonshire	Northamptonshire	359,523
28	Cheshire West and Chester	Cheshire	357,150
29	Wakefield	West Yorkshire	353,364
30	Newham	Greater London	351,036
31	Coventry	West Midlands	345,324
32	North Lanarkshire	Lanarkshire	343,930
33	East Riding of Yorkshire	East Riding of Yorkshire	342,217
34	Sandwell	West Midlands	341,834
35	Brent	Greater London	339,816
36	South Lanarkshire	Lanarkshire	334,330
37	Bromley	Greater London	329,994
38	Enfield	Greater London	329,984
39	Wigan	Greater Manchester	329,330
40	Wandsworth	Greater London	327,506
41	Nottingham	Nottinghamshire	323,630
42	Shropshire	Shropshire	323,606
43	Dudley	West Midlands	323,488
44	Northumberland	Northumberland	320,569
45	Wirral	Merseyside	320,199
46	Lambeth	Greater London	317,654
47	Tower Hamlets	Greater London	310,305
48	Redbridge	Greater London	310,260
49	Doncaster	South Yorkshire	308,106
50	Southwark	Greater London	307,635
51	Hillingdon	Greater London	305,909
52	Lewisham	Greater London	300,554
53	Newcastle upon Tyne	Tyne & Wear	300,125
54	Bolton	Greater Manchester	295,963
55	Stockport	Greater Manchester	294,773
56	Central Bedfordshire	Bedfordshire	294,252
57	South Gloucestershire	Gloucestershire	290,424
58	Greenwich	Greater London	289,068
59	Hounslow	Greater London	288,181
60	Milton Keynes	Buckinghamshire	287,062

Source: ONS Census 2021 / mid-year estimates. Showing the top 60.

Most populous council areas in Great Britain

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