LIST OF TOWN & CITIES IN ENGLAND

Rank	Urban sub-area	Population	Status	Ceremonial county
1	London	7,172,091	City	Greater London, City of London
2	Birmingham	970,892	City	West Midlands
3	Liverpool	469,017	City	Merseyside
4	Leeds	443,247	City	West Yorkshire
5	Sheffield	439,866	City	South Yorkshire
6	Bristol	420,556	City	Bristol
7	Manchester	394,269	City	Greater Manchester
8	Leicester	330,574	City	Leicestershire
9	Coventry	303,475	City	West Midlands
10	Kingston upon Hull	301,416	City	East Riding of Yorkshire
11	Bradford	293,717	City	West Yorkshire
12	Stoke-on-Trent	259,252	City	Staffordshire
13	Wolverhampton	251,462	City	West Midlands
14	Nottingham	249,584	City	Nottinghamshire
15	Plymouth	243,795	City	Devon
16	Southampton	234,224	City	Hampshire
17	Reading	232,662	Town	Berkshire
18	Derby	229,407	City	Derbyshire
19	Dudley	194,919	Town	West Midlands
20	Newcastle upon Tyne	189,863	City	Tyne and Wear
21	Northampton	189,474	Town	Northamptonshire
22	Portsmouth	187,056	City	Hampshire
23	Luton	185,543	Town	Bedfordshire
24	Preston	184,836	City	Lancashire
25	Milton Keynes	184,506 †	Town	Buckinghamshire
26	Sunderland	177,739	City	Tyne and Wear
27	Norwich	174,047	City	Norfolk
28	Walsall	170,994	Town	West Midlands
29	Bournemouth	167,527	Town	Dorset
30	Southend-on-Sea	160,257	Town	Essex
31	Swindon	155,432	Town	Wiltshire
32	Huddersfield	146,234	Town	West Yorkshire
33	Poole	144,800	Town	Dorset
34	Oxford	143,016	City	Oxfordshire
35	Middlesbrough	142,691	Town	North Yorkshire
36	Blackpool	142,283	Town	Lancashire
37	Bolton	139,403	Town	Greater Manchester
38	Ipswich	138,718	Town	Suffolk
39	Telford	138,241 †	Town	Shropshire
40	York	137,505	City	North Yorkshire
41	West Bromwich	136,940	Town	West Midlands
42	Peterborough	136,292	City	Cambridgeshire
43	Stockport	136,082	Town	Greater Manchester
44	Brighton	134,293	Town	East Sussex
45	Slough	126,276	Town	Berkshire
46	Gloucester	123,205	City	Gloucestershire
47	Watford	120,960	Town	Hertfordshire
48	Rotherham	117,262	Town	South Yorkshire
49	Cambridge	113,442 ††	City	Cambridgeshire
50	Exeter	106,772	City	Devon
51	Eastbourne	106,562	Town	East Sussex
52	Sutton Coldfield	105,452	Town	West Midlands
53	Blackburn	105,085	Town	Lancashire
54	Colchester	104,390	Town	Essex
55	Oldham	103,544	Town	Greater Manchester
56	St Helens	102,629	Town	Merseyside
57	Crawley	100,547	Town	West Sussex