Milton_Keynes_urban_area

Milton Keynes urban area

Milton Keynes urban area

Settlement in Buckinghamshire, England

The Milton Keynes urban area or Milton Keynes Built-up Area is a designation established by the United Kingdom's Office for National Statistics.[1][lower-alpha 1] Milton Keynes has no statutory boundary: the 1967 designated area only determined the area assigned to the Milton Keynes Development Corporation for development. The wider urban area outside that designation includes Newport Pagnell and Woburn Sands as well as Aspley Guise (Bedfordshire) and part of Stoke Hammond civil parish.[1]

Milton Keynes Built-up area and its subdivisions (2011 definitions)
Population trend of Borough and Urban Area 1801–2021
Central Milton Keynes from the air, looking south. The West Coast Main Line and the A5 mark the right of the picture, Campbell Park and Willen Lake are to the left. Stadium MK and Bletchley are at the top of the picture.

At the 2021 census, the population of Milton Keynes's Built-up Area was 264,349,[2] an increase of 11.5% over the figure of 229,941 recorded at the 2011 census.[1] That in turn was an increase of almost 25% on the population recorded in the 2001 census of 184,506.[3]

Built-up area sub-divisions

These are the 'built-up area subdivisions' of the Milton Keynes urban area (built-up area) as defined by the ONS.

2021

As of June 2023, information about the definitions and populations of the built-up area subdivisions of the 2021 census has yet to be released.

2011

More information Subdivision, Population (2011 census) ...

2001

In defining the sub-areas of the Milton Keynes urban area for the 2001 census, the ONS used the pre-designation urban and rural districts, subdividing the larger rural district by the chronological phases of urbanisation within them). (These designations were largely dropped for the 2011 Census.) These were:

The Central and North Milton Keynes enumeration districts covered that part of the former Newport Pagnell Rural District that is west of the River Ouzel. The "Walnut Tree" and "Browns Wood" sub-areas together cover the remainder of the Rural District from the Ouzel to the M1. The areas covered by these names are far larger than the civil parishes of the same name, except for 'North Milton Keynes', which does not exist otherwise. (The precise boundary mapping is no longer available: the information in the notes below was derived at the time.)

The corresponding 2001 Urban Sub-areas were:

More information Subdivision, Population (2001 census) ...

At that time, Woburn Sands was not contiguous with the rest of the urban area and thus is not included. Its population was 4,963.[8][lower-alpha 2]

Notes

  1. For the ONS definition of a 'built-up area' or 'urban area', see List of urban areas in the United Kingdom#Definition
  2. page 31

References

  1. [1]
    UK Census (2011). "Local Area Report – Milton Keynes Built-up area (E34005056)". Nomis. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 29 March 2019.
  2. [2]
    "UNITED KINGDOM: Countries and Major Urban Areas". citypopulation.de. 11 November 2022. Retrieved 23 November 2022.
  3. [3]
    "Census 2001 Key Statistics, Urban areas in England and Wales" (PDF). ONS. Retrieved 3 July 2013.
  4. [4]
    UK Census (2011). "Local Area Report – Rest of Milton Keynes (E35001516)". Nomis. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 1 January 2019.
  5. [5]
    UK Census (2011). "Local Area Report – Bletchley (E35000902)". Nomis. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 1 January 2019.
  6. [6]
    UK Census (2011). "Local Area Report – Newport Pagnell (E35001223)". Nomis. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 1 January 2019.
  7. [7]
    UK Census (2011). "Local Area Report – Woburn Sands (E35000347)". Nomis. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 1 January 2019.
  8. [8]
    "Table KS01 Usual resident population" (PDF). Census 2001: Key statistics for urban areas in the South East (part 1) (Report). Office for National Statistics. 2004. p. 23.

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