West Yorkshire Urban Area
Urban subdivisions
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The ONS gives the conurbation a population of 1,777,934 (2011 census), which makes it the fourth-most populous in the UK. The ONS partitions the area down into 39 sub-divisions:
Three further subdivisions are given with no population numbers as they are present or former industrial areas with no resident population.
Rawdon is the subdivision name for Horsforth Vale, on which a former industrial plant was redeveloped for housing from 2010, too late to be recorded for the 2011 census.
- Brookfoot Quarry (Marshalls Southowram)
- Esholt Water Treatment plant, named 'Works, nr Bradford' by the ONS
- Rawdon
Note that the areas below do not have exactly the same borders in each census, so the numbers are not always comparable (e.g. what was classified as Lofthouse/Stanley in 2001 was classified as part of Wakefield in 2011).
# | Subdivision | Population 2011 | Population 2001 | Population 1991 | Population 1981 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Leeds | 474,632 | 443,247 | 424,194 | 445,242 |
2 | Bradford | 349,561 | 293,717 | 289,376 | 293,336 |
3 | Huddersfield | 162,949 | 146,234 | 143,726 | 147,825 |
4 | Wakefield | 99,251 | 76,886 | 73,955 | 74,764 |
5 | Halifax | 88,134 | |||
6 | Dewsbury | 62,945 | 54,341 | 50,168 | 49,612 |
7 | Keighley | 56,348 | 49,453 | 49,567 | 49,188 |
8 | Batley | 46,933 | |||
9 | Brighouse | 33,286 | 32,360 | 32,198 | 32,597 |
10 | Pudsey | 32,216 | 32,391 | 31,636 | 31,943 |
11 | Morley | 29,673 | 54,051 | 47,579 | 44,652 |
12 | Shipley | 28,694 | 28,162 | 28,165 | 28,815 |
13 | Bingley | 22,493 | 19,884 | 19,585 | 18,954 |
14 | Holmfirth | 21,706 | |||
15 | Ossett | 21,231 | 21,076 | 20,405 | 20,417 |
16 | Yeadon | 19,668 | |||
17 | Rothwell | 19,512 | |||
18 | Mirfield | 19,330 | 18,390 | 18,459 | 18,599 |
19 | Horsforth | 18,895 | 18,928 | 18,593 | 19,205 |
20 | Liversedge | 17,697 | |||
21 | Baildon | 15,944 | 15,368 | 15,385 | 14,907 |
22 | Otley | 14,215 | |||
23 | Heckmondwike | 12,085 | 11,291 | 9,855 | 9,775 |
24 | Guiseley | 11,960 | |||
25 | Cleckheaton | 11,648 | |||
26 | Horbury | 10,361 | 10,002 | 9,186 | 9,792 |
27 | Burley in Wharfedale | 7,041 | |||
28 | Haworth | 6,379 | |||
29 | Thornton | 5,289 | |||
30 | Sowerby Bridge | 4,601 | |||
31 | Menston | 4,369 | 4,660 | 4,888 | 4,865 |
32 | Netherton | 3,686 | |||
33 | Robin Hood | 3,573 | |||
34 | Walton | 3,231 | |||
35 | Middlestown | 2,366 | |||
36 | Scholes | 2,317 | |||
37 | Bottom Boat | 1,169 | |||
38 | East Morton | 1,169 | |||
39 | Carlton | 842 | |||
Guiseley/Yeadon | 31,381 | 31,104 | 30,811 | ||
Cleckheaton and Liversedge | 26,796 | 27,151 | 26,340 | ||
Lofthouse/Stanley | 22,947 | 19,136 | 17,439 | ||
Holmfirth/Honley | 22,690 | 21,979 | 21,138 | ||
Queensbury | 8,718 | 7,424 | 7,410 | ||
Shelf | 4,496 | 4,237 | 4,204 | ||
New Farnley | 2,548 | ||||
Total | 1,777,934 | 1,499,465 | 1,445,981 | 1,467,412 |
Lofthouse merged into Wakefield.
Stanley merged into Wakefield.
Honley merged into Holmfirth.
Queensbury merged into Bradford and Shelf merged into Halifax.