This is a list of non-metropolitan counties of England by population.
It includes those non-metropolitan counties (also known as shire counties) with a two-tier county council structure and does not include metropolitan counties or unitary authorities.
In cases where a unitary authority has been detached from a shire county the population of the unitary authority is excluded. For example, Peterborough is excluded from the population figure for Cambridgeshire.
The figures are mid-year estimates for 2008 from the Office for National Statistics[1]. The Unitary Authorities of Cornwall, County Durham, Isle of Wight, Northumberland, Shropshire and Wiltshire (which were formerly counties) are now listed in the List of English districts by population.
| Rank | County | Population | Area (in km²) |
Density (people/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kent | 1,406,600 | 3,544 | 397 |
| 2 | Essex | 1,396,300 | 3,465 | 403 |
| 3 | Hampshire | 1,286,000 | 3,679 | 350 |
| 4 | Lancashire | 1,169,100 | 2,903 | 403 |
| 5 | Surrey | 1,109,700 | 1,663 | 667 |
| 6 | Hertfordshire | 1,078,400 | 1,643 | 656 |
| 7 | Norfolk | 850,800 | 5,371 | 158 |
| 8 | Staffordshire | 828,900 | 2,620 | 316 |
| 9 | West Sussex | 781,600 | 1,991 | 393 |
| 10 | Nottinghamshire | 776,500 | 2,085 | 372 |
| 11 | Derbyshire | 762,300 | 2,547 | 299 |
| 12 | Devon | 754,800 | 6,564 | 115 |
| 13 | Suffolk | 715,700 | 3,800 | 188 |
| 14 | Lincolnshire | 698,100 | 5,921 | 118 |
| 15 | Northamptonshire | 685,000 | 2,364 | 290 |
| 16 | Leicestershire | 645,800 | 2,083 | 310 |
| 17 | Oxfordshire | 639,700 | 2,605 | 246 |
| 18 | Cambridgeshire | 605,100 | 3,046 | 199 |
| 19 | North Yorkshire | 599,300 | 8,038 | 75 |
| 20 | Gloucestershire | 582,500 | 2,653 | 220 |
| 21 | Worcestershire | 557,600 | 1,741 | 320 |
| 22 | Warwickshire | 530,500 | 1,975 | 269 |
| 23 | Somerset | 525,800 | 3,451 | 152 |
| 24 | East Sussex | 509,800 | 1,709 | 298 |
| 25 | Cumbria | 496,600 | 6,767 | 73 |
| 26 | Buckinghamshire | 493,200 | 1,565 | 315 |
| 27 | Dorset | 407,800 | 2,542 | 160 |
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