Nottingham Urban Area

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Nottingham Urban Area map.

Map featuring roads and county boundaries.

The Nottingham Built-up Area or 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 729,977 at the time of the 2011 census. An increase of almost 10% since the 2001 census recorded population of 666,358.

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. 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 8th largest in England, with a size between that of the Tyneside Built-up area and Sheffield Urban Area.

Urban Subdivision	Population (2001 census)	Population (2011 census)	District
Nottingham	249,584	305,680	City of Nottingham
Beeston	66,683	51,479	Broxtowe
Carlton	48,493	49,235	Gedling
Long Eaton	46,490	37,760	Erewash
West Bridgford	43,395	45,509	Rushcliffe
Arnold	37,402	37,768	Gedling
Ilkeston	37,270	38,640	Erewash
Hucknall	29,188	32,107	Ashfield
Heanor	22,620	25,644	Amber Valley
Clifton	22,312	22,407	City of Nottingham
Eastwood	18,612	18,422	Broxtowe
Ripley	18,523	19,315	Amber Valley
Stapleford		16,190	Broxtowe
Kimberley	11,027	11,353	Broxtowe
Sandiacre		9,600	Erewash
Breaston	7,305	7,545	Erewash
Ruddington	6,264	7,020	Rushcliffe
West Hallam		6,016	Erewash
Awsworth		2,517	Broxtowe
Total Urban Area	666,358	744,207

Notes:

• At the time of the 2001 census Awsworth and West Hallam were not part of the Nottingham Urban Area.
• At the time of the 2001 census the Beeston subdivision included Stapleford and was named Beeston and Stapleford.
• In the 2001 census Sandiacre was included as part of the Long Eaton subdivision.

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.

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. 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. The Mansfield Urban Area also forms part of this metropolitan area. This Urban Area is not continuous with the Nottingham Urban Area. However, it is almost continuous with the Alfreton Urban Area, which had a population of 41,289 according to the last census, 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.

See also

• List of conurbations in the United Kingdom
• List of metropolitan areas in the United Kingdom

External links

• Greater Nottingham partnership (GNP)
• Office for National Statistics: Census 2001, Key Statistics for urban areas
• map depicting ONS definition

http://www.nottinghaminsight.org.uk/insight/key-datasets/census-2011.aspx