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West Yorkshire Built-up Area

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The West Yorkshire Built-up Area, previously known as the West Yorkshire Urban Area, is a term used by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) to refer to a conurbation in West Yorkshire, England, based on the cities of Leeds, Bradford and Wakefield, and the large towns of Huddersfield and Halifax. It is the fourth largest urban area in the United Kingdom. However, it excludes other towns and villages such as Featherstone, Normanton, Castleford, Pontefract, Hemsworth, Todmorden, Hebden Bridge, Knottingley, Wetherby and Garforth which, though part of the county of West Yorkshire, are considered independently. There are substantial areas of agricultural land within the designated area – more than in any other official urban area in England – many of the towns and cities are only just connected by narrow outlying strips of development.

West Yorkshire Built-up Area
Conurbation
Leeds
Huddersfield
Bradford
Wakefield
Halifax
2011 map of the West Yorkshire Built-up Area, showing subdivisions
Area487.8 km2 (188.3 sq mi)
Population1,777,934 
• Density3,645/km2 (9,440/sq mi)
OS grid referenceSE455215
Metropolitan county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
PoliceWest Yorkshire
FireWest Yorkshire
AmbulanceYorkshire
List of places
UK
England
Yorkshire

Urban subdivisions

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Map of the main settlements
 
Leeds, the largest city in the built-up area (BUA) and the United Kingdom's third-largest city by population
 
Bradford, the second largest city in the BUA and United Kingdom's sixth largest city by population
 
Huddersfield, a market town with the third-highest population in the BUA and one of the largest market towns in UK
 
Wakefield, the BUA's third city and previously a centre for coal mining, famous for its cathedral, castle and the historical battle of Wakefield
 
Halifax, a centre for the wool industry since the 1400s and fifth largest settlement in the conurbation, also known for its minster church

The ONS gives the conurbation a population of 1,777,934 (2011 census),[1] which makes it the fourth-most populous in the UK. The ONS partitions the area down into 39 sub-divisions:[1]

Three further subdivisions are given[2] 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.

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[3] Population 1991[4] Population 1981[5]
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
2011 subdivision notes:

Lofthouse merged into Wakefield.
Stanley merged into Wakefield.
Honley merged into Holmfirth.
Queensbury merged into Bradford and Shelf merged into Halifax.

New Farnley merged into Leeds.

References

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  1. ^ a b "2011 Census - Built-up areas". ONS. Retrieved 5 July 2013.
  2. ^ "West Yorkshire BUA". statistics.data.gov.uk. ONS. Retrieved 24 October 2017.
  3. ^ "Census 2001: Key Statistics for urban areas in England and Wales" (PDF). Archived from the original on 5 January 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  4. ^ "1991 Urban Areas". Archived from the original on 18 July 2006.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  5. ^ Census 1981 : key statistics for urban areas : the North, cities and towns. Great Britain. Office of Population Censuses and Surveys. London: H.M.S.O. 1984. ISBN 0116910615. OCLC 10979725.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)

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