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The London travel to work area in 2001 (dark blue), with the administrative boundary of Greater London shown. The London travel to work area, defined by the Office for National Statistics as the area for which "of the resident economically active population, at least 75% actually work in the area, and also, that of everyone working in the area, at least 75% actually live in the area."
At the 2001 census, the population of the Greater London Urban Area was 8,278,251. [15] This area does not include some outliers within Greater London, but does extend into the adjacent South East England and East of England regions. In 2004 the London Plan of the Mayor of London defined a metropolitan region with a population of 18 million. [16]
Region Region population [citation needed]Metro Rank Metropolitan area Metro Population (2001) Greater London: 8,173,941 1 London 13,709,000 West Midlands: 5,601,847
The population of the current area of Greater London rose from about 1.1 million in 1801 (when only about 850,000 people were in the urban area, while 250,000 were living in villages and towns not yet part of London) to an estimated 8.6 million in 1939, but declined to 6.7 million in 1988, before starting to rebound in the 1990s.
The 2023 population of Greater London of just under 10 million made it Europe's third-most populous city, accounting for 13.4% of the United Kingdom's population and over 16% of England's population. The Greater London Built-up Area is the fourth-most populous in Europe, with about 9.8 million inhabitants as of 2011.
London's continuous urban area extends beyond Greater London and numbered 9,787,426 people in 2011, [3] while its wider metropolitan area had a population of 12–14 million, depending on the definition used. [194] According to Eurostat, London is the second most populous metropolitan area in Europe. A net 726,000 immigrants arrived there in ...
The list includes all urban areas with a population in excess of 100,000 at the 2011 census. [3] # Area [4] ... Greater London. Greater Manchester. West Midlands ...
Rank Primary urban area Population (2001 census) Constituent local authorities [8] LUZ name LUZ size LUZ EU rank; 1 London 8,294,058 Greater London, Epping Forest, Broxbourne, Dacorum, Three Rivers, Watford, Dartford, Gravesham, Elmbridge, Epsom and Ewell, Mole Valley, Runnymede, Spelthorne and Woking