Population of towns

[MidnightFlyer]

Three questions, can be for any town in Britain:

a) Which town has seen the largest % population increase over the past fifty, twenty and five years?
b) Which town has suffered from loss of population most in the above time periods?
c) Which towns are projected to have a dramatic rise / fall of population based on the latest figures.

I think a) may be Telford or Corby, and b) one of the Scottish mining towns, but any help is greatly appreciated.

Cheers

 

[Greenback]

The answer may possibly be affected by boundary changes and by the different methods that have been used to asees the population at any given time.

 

[CarterUSM]

I think any of the "new towns" would be in with a shout for a?

 

[Liam]

Inverness is often described as the fastest growing city in Europe. But, I have also heard/read the same about Leeds, Milton Keynes, Galway, Belfast.......

 

[142094]

You'll probably not be able to get data for the last five years easily, seeing as we've just had the Census.

 

[Madge Wildfire]

You might find some useful info on this web page,

http://www.citypopulation.de/UK-England.html

Scroll down below the counties to find cities/towns.

 

[Ivo]

Inverness is often described as the fastest growing city in Europe. But, I have also heard/read the same about Leeds, Milton Keynes, Galway, Belfast.......

Ditto. I'm sure I've heard this about Aberdeen before now as well.

As far as I am aware, Dundee once had a population of about 200,000, but now stands at a disappointing 140,000. [Wikipedia indicates that these values should be 182,000 and 152,000, but that's still 30,000 or 16%.]

As for places likely to grow, look no further than everyone's favourite bunch of straight lines and circles, Milton Keynes. The MK2031 project, which there are some local disagreements about as to how it should be implemented, envisages doubling the town's population.

 

[MidnightFlyer]

Ditto. I'm sure I've heard this about Aberdeen before now as well.

As far as I am aware, Dundee once had a population of about 200,000, but now stands at a disappointing 140,000. [Wikipedia indicates that these values should be 182,000 and 152,000, but that's still 30,000 or 16%.]

As for places likely to grow, look no further than everyone's favourite bunch of straight lines and circles, Milton Keynes. The MK2031 project, which there are some local disagreements about as to how it should be implemented, envisages doubling the town's population.

Hopefully one day Milton Keynes will get too big and collapse in on itself, I personally can't wait for that day!

*Hides from Mojo*

 

[Ivo]

As far as expansion goes, other major schemes exist in and around the Aylesbury Vale, several new towns, and of course the Thames Gateway. The way some (like Boris :roll treat the Gateway, I would be surprised if you could find anywhere in the area which is genuine Green Belt by 2030...

Hopefully one day Milton Keynes will get too big and collapse in on itself, I personally can't wait for that day!

*Hides from Mojo*

Imagine MK had a tram system. Is it to say that a certain administrator of a certain forum would be moving there at the first opportunity? Although, having said that, surely MK's layout is ideal for a comprehensive tram system...

 

[Cherry_Picker]

The answer may possibly be affected by boundary changes and by the different methods that have been used to asees the population at any given time.

It will definitely be affected by boundary changes. The city of Nottingham has had a large decline in population over the past 20 years or so, not because people are moving out of the area but because parts of the city have been given to suburban districts like Rushcliffe. Nottingham Forest don't actually play within the city limits of Nottingham any more because they had the boundary moved from underneath them. I would imagine this story is repeated countless times across the nation.

 

[Greenback]

It will definitely be affected by boundary changes. The city of Nottingham has had a large decline in population over the past 20 years or so, not because people are moving out of the area but because parts of the city have been given to suburban districts like Rushcliffe. Nottingham Forest don't actually play within the city limits of Nottingham any more because they had the boundary moved from underneath them. I would imagine this story is repeated countless times across the nation.

I'm sure it is. These changes are continuous, and without knowledge of what has happened ina locality over the eyars it's difficult to make a true comparison.

 

[NIMBUS]

I suspect that Peterborough would feature very highly - from around 80,000 in the late sixties to over 175,000 now (certainly it's claimed to be the biggest city in Cambridgeshire - although it isn't, because it's a unitary authority!). Between 1971 and 1991 the growth was 45.4%.