In 2023, almost nine million people lived in Greater London, making it the most populated ceremonial county in England. The West Midlands Metropolitan County, which contains the large city of Birmingham, was the second-largest county at 2.98 million inhabitants, followed by Greater Manchester and then West Yorkshire with populations of 2.95 million and 2.4 million, respectively. Kent, Essex, and Hampshire were the three next-largest counties in terms of population, each with around 1.89 million people. A patchwork of regions England is just one of the four countries that compose the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, with England, Scotland and Wales making up Great Britain. England is therefore not to be confused with Great Britain or the United Kingdom as a whole. Within England, the next subdivisions are the nine regions of England, containing various smaller units such as unitary authorities, metropolitan counties and non-metropolitan districts. The counties in this statistic, however, are based on the ceremonial counties of England as defined by the Lieutenancies Act of 1997. Regions of Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland Like England, the other countries of the United Kingdom have their own regional subdivisions, although with some different terminology. Scotland’s subdivisions are council areas, while Wales has unitary authorities, and Northern Ireland has local government districts. As of 2022, the most-populated Scottish council area was Glasgow City, with over 622,000 inhabitants. In Wales, Cardiff had the largest population among its unitary authorities, and in Northern Ireland, Belfast was the local government area with the most people living there.

Chart and table of population level and growth rate for the Preston, UK metro area from 1950 to 2025.

This dataset is intended for researchers, students, and policy makers for reference and mapping purposes, and may be used for basic applications such as viewing, querying, and map output production, or to provide a basemap to support graphical overlays and analysis with other spatial data.

This dataset identifies areas where the distribution of great crested newts (GCN) has been categorised into zones relating to GCN occurrence and the level of impact development is likely to have on this species. Red zones contain key populations of GCN, which are important on a regional, national or international scale and include designated Sites of Special Scientific Interest for GCN. Amber zones contain main population centres for GCN and comprise important connecting habitat that aids natural dispersal. Green zones contain sparsely distributed GCN and are less likely to contain important pathways of connecting habitat for this species. White zones contain no GCN. However, as most of England forms the natural range of GCN, white zones are rare and will only be used when it is certain that there are no GCN.

PLEASE NOTE: Following the consultation on the proposal to stop producing this report, it has been confirmed that this report will continue to be produced by NHS Digital albeit in a revised format and on a monthly basis. Quarterly publications in January, April, July and October will include Lower Layer Super Output Area (LSOA) populations and a topic of interest. Data are extracted each month as a snapshot in time from the GP Payments system maintained by NHS Digital. This release is an accurate snapshot as at 1 May 2017. Since April 2014, geographical references have been taken from 2011 census information. GP Practice; Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG); NHS England Region and NHS England Commissioning Region level data are released in single year of age (SYOA) and 5-year age bands, both of which finish at 95+, split by gender. Additional guidance has been included in this publication to show how the new datasets can be used. New Health Geography structure: Please note that this publication reflects NHS England's health geography structure as at 1 April 2017. This includes the move of 32 practices from NHS Cumbria CCG (01H) to NHS Lancashire North CCG (01K). In addition, NHS Lancashire North CCG is changing its name to NHS Morecambe Bay CCG (01K) and NHS Cumbria CCG to NHS North Cumbria CCG although the CCG codes will remain the same. Roundwell Medical Centre (D82023) GP practice is changing its CCG parent from NHS South Norfolk CCG (06Y) to NHS Norwich CCG (06W). NHS Central Manchester (00W), NHS North Manchester (01M) and NHS South Manchester (01N) combined to form NHS Manchester CCG with a new code of 14L. UPDATED 17 November 2017 These ONS CCG codes have been updated to reflect changes that took place on 1 April 2017 (No data have been affected) NHS North Cumbria E38000041 to E38000215 NHS Morecambe Bay CCG E38000093 to E38000216 NHS Norwich CCG E38000131 to E38000218 NHS South Norfolk CCG E38000159 to E38000219

Calls to the Ambulance Service for the period 01/10/2023 to 30/09/2024 by ward, shown as the rate per 1000 population.