List of two-tier counties of England facts for kids
This is a list of two-tier 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 2020 from the Office for National Statistics.
Densities are calculated from population and area values.
| Rank | County | Population | Area (in km²) |
Density (people/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kent | 1,369,900 | align="right" | align="right"|386 |
| 2 | Essex | 1,340,000 | align="right" | align="right"|386 |
| 3 | Hampshire | 1,259,400 | align="right" | align="right"|342 |
| 4 | Lancashire | 1,156,100 | align="right" | align="right"|398 |
| 5 | Surrey | 1,075,600 | align="right" | align="right"|644 |
| 6 | Hertfordshire | 1,048,200 | align="right" | align="right"|638 |
| 7 | Norfolk | 824,200 | align="right" | align="right"|153 |
| 8 | Staffordshire | 816,700 | align="right" | align="right"|311 |
| 9 | West Sussex | 764,300 | align="right" | align="right"|384 |
| 10 | Nottinghamshire | 762,600 | align="right" | align="right"|366 |
| 11 | Derbyshire | 747,500 | align="right" | align="right"|293 |
| 12 | Devon | 731,000 | align="right" | align="right"|111 |
| 13 | Suffolk | 692,100 | align="right" | align="right"|182 |
| 14 | Lincolnshire | 678,700 | align="right" | align="right"|115 |
| 15 | Northamptonshire | 651,800 | align="right" | align="right"|275 |
| 16 | Oxfordshire | 626,900 | align="right" | align="right"|241 |
| 17 | Leicestershire | 627,800 | align="right" | align="right"|301 |
| 18 | Cambridgeshire | 588,900 | align="right" | align="right"|193 |
| 19 | Gloucestershire | 575,400 | align="right" | align="right"|217 |
| 20 | North Yorkshire | 582,000 | align="right" | align="right"|72 |
| 21 | Worcestershire | 555,900 | align="right" | align="right"|319 |
| 22 | Warwickshire | 533,900 | align="right" | align="right"|270 |
| 23 | Somerset | 515,600 | align="right" | align="right"|149 |
| 24 | East Sussex | 497,900 | align="right" | align="right"|291 |
| 25 | Buckinghamshire | 481,600 | align="right" | align="right"|308 |
| 26 | Cumbria | 498,800 | align="right" | align="right"|73 |
| 27 | Dorset | 401,200 | align="right" | align="right"|158 |
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