Wigan Urban Area

The Wigan Urban Area is an area of land defined by the Office for National Statistics consisting of the built-up, or 'urbanised' area containing Wigan in Greater Manchester and Skelmersdale in West Lancashire.

The Urban Area includes the integrated conurbation around Wigan, (containing the areas of Ince-in-Makerfield,Orrell and Wigan itself), along with the areas of Standish, Abram and the West Lancashire town of Skelmersdale.

The Wigan Urban Area has a total population of 166,840. [cite web |url=http://www.statistics.gov.uk/StatBase/ssdataset.asp?vlnk=8271&Pos=2&ColRank=1&Rank=224 |title=Table KS01 - Ususal resident population - Census 2001|publisher=Office for National Statistics]

Constituent parts

The historic town of Wigan forms an integrated conurbation along with the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan districts of Orrell and Ince-in-Makerfield, this is connected by ribbon development to Standish and Abram. These areas, together with Skelmersdale in West Lancashire, are defined by the Office for National Statistics as the Wigan Urban Area.

Breakdown

The ONS figures were broken down into constituent parts, and an individual population figure given for each. These were:

Notes

References

* [http://www.statistics.gov.uk/statbase/ssdataset.asp?vlnk=8271&More=Y Office for National Statistics: Census 2001, Key Statistics for urban areas]
* [http://www.statistics.gov.uk/census2001/corrections_ks_urban.asp Errata]