List of English counties by population: Information from Answers.com

This is a list of metropolitan counties, non-metropolitan counties and unitary authorities of England by population.

It includes those non-metropolitan counties (also known as shire counties) with a two-tier county council structure, metropolitan counties and unitary authorities.

In cases where a unitary authority has been detached from a county the population of the unitary authority is shown separately. For example, Peterborough is shown separately from the population figure for Cambridgeshire.

Figures are mid-year estimates for 2008 from the Office for National Statistics [1].

Rank	County	Population	Type	Region
1	Greater London	7,611,900		Greater London
2	West Midlands	2,619,500	metropolitan county	West Midlands
3	Greater Manchester	2,573,500	metropolitan county	North West
4	West Yorkshire	2,200,500	metropolitan county	Yorkshire and the Humber
5	Kent	1,406,600	two-tier	South East
6	Essex	1,396,300	two-tier	East
7	Merseyside	1,347,800	metropolitan county	North West
8	South Yorkshire	1,305,900	metropolitan county	Yorkshire and the Humber
9	Hampshire	1,286,000	two-tier	South East
10	Lancashire	1,169,100	two-tier	North West
11	Surrey	1,109,700	two-tier	South East
12	Tyne and Wear	1,093,400	metropolitan county	North East
13	Hertfordshire	1,078,400	two-tier	East
14	Norfolk	850,800	two-tier	East
15	Staffordshire	828,900	two-tier	West Midlands
16	West Sussex	781,600	two-tier	South East
17	Nottinghamshire	776,500	two-tier	East Midlands
18	Derbyshire	762,300	two-tier	East Midlands
19	Devon	754,800	two-tier	South West
20	Suffolk	715,700	two-tier	East
21	Lincolnshire	698,100	two-tier	East Midlands
22	Northamptonshire	685,000	two-tier	East Midlands
23	Leicestershire	645,800	two-tier	East Midlands
24	Oxfordshire	639,700	two-tier	South East
25	Cambridgeshire	605,100	two-tier	East
26	North Yorkshire	599,300	two-tier	Yorkshire and the Humber
27	Gloucestershire	582,500	two-tier	South West
28	Worcestershire	557,600	two-tier	West Midlands
29	Cornwall	532,200	unitary	South West
30	Warwickshire	530,500	two-tier	West Midlands
31	Somerset	525,800	two-tier	South West
32	East Sussex	509,800	two-tier	South East
33	County Durham	508,500	unitary	North East
34	Cumbria	496,600	two-tier	North West
35	Buckinghamshire	493,200	two-tier	South East
36	Wiltshire	455,500	unitary	South West
37	Bristol	421,300	unitary	South West
38	Dorset	407,800	two-tier	South West
39	Cheshire East	361,500	unitary	North West
40	East Riding of Yorkshire	335,000	unitary	Yorkshire and the Humber
41	Cheshire West and Chester	328,600	unitary	North West
42	Northumberland	311,000	unitary	North East
43	Leicester	294,700	unitary	East Midlands
44	Shropshire	292,800	unitary	West Midlands
45	Nottingham	292,400	unitary	East Midlands
46	Hull	258,700	unitary	Yorkshire and the Humber
47	South Gloucestershire	257,700	unitary	South West
48	Brighton & Hove	256,600	unitary	South East
49	Central Bedfordshire	255,000	unitary	East
50	Medway	253,500	unitary	South East
51	Plymouth	252,800	unitary	South West
52	Stoke-on-Trent	240,100	unitary	West Midlands
53	Derby	239,200	unitary	East Midlands
54	Southampton	234,600	unitary	South East
55	Milton Keynes	232,200	unitary	South East
56	North Somerset	206,800	unitary	South West
57	Portsmouth	200,000	unitary	South East
58	Warrington	196,200	unitary	North West
59	York	195,400	unitary	Yorkshire and the Humber
60	Swindon	192,900	unitary	South West
61	Stockton-on-Tees	191,900	unitary	North East
62	Luton	191,800	unitary	East
63	Bath and North East Somerset	180,300	unitary	South West
64	Herefordshire	179,300	unitary	West Midlands
65	Southend-on-Sea	164,300	unitary	East
66	Peterborough	164,000	unitary	East
67	Bournemouth	163,900	unitary	South West
68	Telford and Wrekin	162,100	unitary	West Midlands
69	North Lincolnshire	160,300	unitary	Yorkshire and the Humber
70	Wokingham	159,100	unitary	South East
71	North East Lincolnshire	158,200	unitary	Yorkshire and the Humber
72	Bedford	155,700	unitary	East
73	West Berkshire	152,800	unitary	South East
74	Thurrock	151,600	unitary	East
75	Reading	145,700	unitary	South East
76	Windsor and Maidenhead	142,800	unitary	South East
77	Blackpool	141,900	unitary	North West
78	Blackburn with Darwen	140,700	unitary	North West
79	Isle of Wight	140,200	unitary	South East
80	Redcar and Cleveland	139,500	unitary	North East
81	Middlesbrough	139,000	unitary	North East
82	Poole	138,800	unitary	South West
83	Torbay	134,000	unitary	South West
84	Slough	121,200	unitary	South East
85	Halton	119,800	unitary	North West
86	Bracknell Forest	114,700	unitary	South East
87	Darlington	100,500	unitary	North East
88	Hartlepool	91,700	unitary	North East
89	Rutland	39,200	unitary	East Midlands
90	Isles of Scilly	2,100	unitary	South West

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Structure of English administrative divisions (since 1995)

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