Liverpool Urban Area

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The Liverpool Urban Area is a name given by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) to the urban area of Liverpool and the built-up areas immediately adjacent to it. They give it a population of 816,216 according to the 2001 census, down 2.6% from the 1991 figure of 837,998.

The ONS include in the Liverpool Urban Area, the subcomponents of

• Bootle
• Crosby
• Huyton-with-Roby
• Litherland
• Liverpool

This covers more than just the city of Liverpool itself (including parts of Sefton, St Helens and Knowsley), but less than the county of Merseyside, and even less than in Greater Merseyside.

Ashton-in-Makerfield, Kirkby and Maghull/Lydiate are narrowly excluded from the area.

In particular, the urban area facing Liverpool on the Wirral peninsula is considered to be the Birkenhead Urban Area. The decision by the ONS not to include the Wirral in the Liverpool Urban Area was controversial. Together the two urban areas have a population of 1,157,673.