# Liverpool Built-up Area

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Not to be confused with the combined authority area of the [Liverpool City Region](/source/Liverpool_City_Region) or the metropolitan county of [Merseyside](/source/Merseyside).

The **Liverpool Built-up Area** (previously **Liverpool Urban Area** in 2001 and prior) is a term used by the [Office for National Statistics](/source/Office_for_National_Statistics) (ONS) to denote the [urban area](/source/Urban_area) around [Liverpool](/source/Liverpool) in [England](/source/England), to the east of the [River Mersey](/source/River_Mersey). The contiguous built-up area extends beyond the area administered by [Liverpool City Council](/source/Liverpool_City_Council) into adjoining local authority areas, particularly parts of [Sefton](/source/Metropolitan_Borough_of_Sefton) and [Knowsley](/source/Metropolitan_Borough_of_Knowsley). As defined by ONS, the area extends as far east as [St Helens](/source/St_Helens,_Merseyside), [Haydock](/source/Haydock), and [Ashton-in-Makerfield](/source/Ashton-in-Makerfield) in [Greater Manchester](/source/Greater_Manchester).[1][2]

The Liverpool Urban Area is not the same area as [Merseyside](/source/Merseyside) (or the [Liverpool City Region](/source/Liverpool_City_Region) sometimes informally referred to as Greater Merseyside), which includes areas of [Wirral](/source/Wirral_Peninsula) on the west bank of the Mersey and [Southport](/source/Southport).[1] The western extent of the [Greater Manchester conurbation](/source/Greater_Manchester_conurbation) is narrowly avoided as that extends as far as [Golborne](/source/Golborne) and [Newton-le-Willows](/source/Newton-le-Willows), with small gaps separating those towns from Ashton-In-Makerfield and Haydock.

## Settlements

See also: [List of settlements in Merseyside by population](/source/List_of_settlements_in_Merseyside_by_population)

The Liverpool Urban Area defined by ONS covers Liverpool and its contiguous built-up areas, with a population of 864,122[3] a considerable increase from the 2001 census due to the rapid growth in the population of Liverpool during this period. The population of the area was 816,216 in the 2001 census,.[4] The urban area facing Liverpool on the [Wirral Peninsula](/source/Wirral_Peninsula) is a separate division known as the [Birkenhead Urban Area](/source/Birkenhead_Urban_Area).[5]

The ONS definition is based purely on physical criteria with a focus on the presence or absence of significant gaps between built-up areas. It therefore extends as far as Ashton-in-Makerfield, but excludes some areas much closer to Liverpool which are separated from it by open spaces, notably [Kirkby](/source/Kirkby) with a narrow gap along the [M57 motorway](/source/M57_motorway), and [Maghull](/source/Maghull).

Subdivisions are not always aligned to present administrative or county borders. For example, Liverpool as designated by the ONS also containing the towns [Huyton](/source/Huyton), [Roby](/source/Roby,_Merseyside), and [Halewood](/source/Halewood) which are all within the neighbouring borough of Knowsley. [St Helens](/source/St_Helens,_Merseyside) only covers the settlement, and not the [St Helens](/source/Metropolitan_Borough_of_St_Helens) [borough](/source/Borough_status_in_the_United_Kingdom) which contains [Rainford](/source/Rainford) and Haydock.

According to the ONS, the subcomponents of the Liverpool Urban Area are:

Urban subvision Population (2011)[3] Population (2001)[4] Population (1991)[1] Population (1981)[6] Liverpool 552,267 469,017 481,786 538,809 St Helens 102,885 102,629 106,293 - Bootle 51,394 59,123 65,454 70,860 Huyton-with-Roby - 54,766 56,500 62,011 Crosby 50,044 51,789 52,869 54,103 Prescot 37,911 39,695 37,486 - Ashton-in-Makerfield 28,762 - - - Litherland 18,507 22,242 20,905 21,989 Haydock 16,521 16,955 16,705 - Rainford 5,831 - - - Total 864,122 816,216 837,998 747,772

**Notes**:

- [Huyton-with-Roby](/source/Huyton_with_Roby_Urban_District) was included as part of the Liverpool subdivision in the 2011 census.
- [Rainford](/source/Rainford) and [Ashton-in-Makerfield](/source/Ashton-in-Makerfield) were not part of the Liverpool Urban Area prior to 2011.

## Greater Liverpool

Greater Liverpool is an informal term used by the Rent Service as one of its Broad Rental Market Areas (BRMA).[7] This area includes such districts outside the [Liverpool City Council](/source/Liverpool_City_Council) boundaries as Crosby, Maghull, Prescot and St Helens.

[Merseytravel](/source/Merseytravel) include a similar Greater Liverpool area for its Public Transport Map and Guide as seen on its Liverpool area map.[8]

## References

1. ["Liverpool Urban Area"](http://www.statistics.gov.uk/census2001/liverpool_urban_area.asp). Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 2008-06-30.

1. ["2011 Liverpool Built-up Area Area"](https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/articles/747.aspx). Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 2017-10-25.

1. ["2011 Census - Built-up areas"](http://www.nomisweb.co.uk/articles/747.aspx). [ONS](/source/Office_for_National_Statistics). Retrieved 29 June 2013.

1. ["Key Statistics for urban areas in the North - Contents, Introduction, Tables KS01 - KS08"](https://web.archive.org/web/20090327160948/http://www.statistics.gov.uk/downloads/census2001/ks_urban_north_part_1.pdf). Office for National Statistics. Archived from [the original](http://www.statistics.gov.uk/downloads/census2001/ks_urban_north_part_1.pdf) on 2009-03-27. Retrieved 2008-06-30.

1. ["Birkenhead Urban Area"](http://www.statistics.gov.uk/census2001/birkenhead_urban_area.asp). Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 2008-06-30.

1. *Census 1981 : key statistics for urban areas : the North, cities and towns*. London: H.M.S.O. 1984. ISBN 0116910615. [OCLC 10979725](https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/10979725)

1. [Broad Rental Market Areas](https://lha-direct.therentservice.gov.uk/Secure/LHARateSearch.aspx?SearchType=LA)[dead link] (select 'Liverpool' as the Local Authority and hit LA Search - then hit the 'Map' button at the bottom to give map)

1. [Liverpool Area Public Transport Map and Guide](http://www.merseytravel.gov.uk/travelling-around/Documents/Detailed_zones.pdf)

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