Nottingham Urban Area

The Nottingham Urban Area is an area of land defined by the Office for National Statistics, consisting of the city of Nottingham and the adjoining urban areas of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire, in the East Midlands of England. It had a total population of 666,358 at the time of the 2001 census[1], and is currently estimated at 675,600.[2]

The Nottingham Urban Area is bounded to the west by a narrow gap between Breaston and Borrowash. In the 1991 census, Ilkeston was considered outside of the Nottingham Urban Area.[3] Clifton is within the current city boundaries, but is considered separately for ONS purposes.

Greater Nottingham is largely within the three districts of Rushcliffe, Broxtowe and Gedling surrounding the city, though the area spills into the Nottinghamshire district of Ashfield, and also to the Amber Valley and Erewash districts of Derbyshire. The Nottingham Urban Area is, by the ONS' figures, the 7th largest in England, with a size between that of the Liverpool Urban Area and Sheffield Urban Area.

Urban Subdivision Population
Nottingham 249,584
Beeston and Stapleford 66,683
Carlton 48,493
Long Eaton 46,490
West Bridgford 43,395
Arnold 37,402
Ilkeston 37,270
Hucknall 29,188
Heanor 22,620
Clifton 22,312
Eastwood 18,612
Ripley 18,523
Kimberley 11,027
Breaston 7,305
Ruddington 6,264
Total Urban Area 666,358

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Greater Nottingham Partnership

The local authorities collaborate in some ways. The Greater Nottingham Partnership considers Greater Nottingham to consist of the City of Nottingham plus the entirety of the Rushcliffe, Broxtowe and Gedling boroughs, along with Hucknall from Ashfield, but no part of Derbyshire, as no Derbyshire council is a member of the Partnership.[4]

Nottingham-Derby metropolitan area

The conurbation forms a large part of the Nottingham-Derby metropolitan area, which has an estimated population of 1.5 million.[5] The Urban Areas of both Derby and Nottingham are almost continuous with Draycott (part of the Breaston Urban sub-division) being almost continuous with Borrowash part of the Derby Urban Area.[6] The Mansfield Urban Area also forms part of this metropolitan area. This Urban Area is not nearly continuos with the Nottingham Urban Area however it is almost continous with the Alfreton Urban Area, which had a population of 41,289 according to the last census, [6] with the South Normanton/Pinxton Urban sub-division of the Alfreton Urban Area being almost continuous with the Sutton-in-Ashfield Urban sub-division of the Mansfield Urban Area. The Alfreton Urban Area is also nearly continuous with Ripley part of the Nottingham Urban Area.

References

  1. ^ Office for National Statistics: Census 2001, Key Statistics for urban areas
  2. ^ http://www.nottinghamcity.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=2399
  3. ^ Statistics.gov.uk.
  4. ^ Greater Nottingham Partnership Map of Greater Nottingham
  5. ^ "British urban pattern: population data" (pdf). ESPON project 1.4.3 Study on Urban Functions. European Spatial Planning Observation Network. March 2007. p. 119. http://www.espon.eu/export/sites/default/Documents/Projects/ESPON2006Projects/StudiesScientificSupportProjects/UrbanFunctions/fr-1.4.3_April2007-final.pdf#page=119. Retrieved 2010-02-22. 
  6. ^ a b http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/census/census-2001-key-statistics/urban-areas-in-england-and-wales/urban-areas-in-england-and-wales-ks01-usual-resident-population.xls

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