List of unitary authorities of England explained

This is a list of unitary authorities of England ordered by population.

Figures are mid-year estimates for from the Office for National Statistics.Areas from UK Standard Area Measurements

The list does not include North Northamptonshire and West Northamptonshire unitary authorities, created in 2021, for which statistics are not yet available.

In July 2021 plans were announced to create unitary authorities in Cumbria, North Yorkshire and Somerset in 2023. The North Yorkshire authority will be the largest in England by population (618,054 in 2019) and by far the largest by area (8,053 km2).

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RankAuthorityRegionPopulationDensity
(people/km2)		Area (km2)
1 Cornwall
2 Buckinghamshire
3 County Durham
4 Wiltshire
5 Bristol
6 Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
7 Cheshire East
8 Dorset
9 Leicester
10 East Riding of Yorkshire
11 Cheshire West and Chester
12 Nottingham
13 Northumberland
14 Shropshire
15 Brighton & Hove
16 Central Bedfordshire
17 South Gloucestershire
18 Medway
19 Milton Keynes
20 Plymouth
21 Kingston upon Hull
22 Derby
23 Stoke-on-Trent
24 Southampton
25 Swindon
26 Portsmouth
27 Luton
28 North Somerset
29 Warrington
30 York
31 Peterborough
32 Stockton-on-Tees
33 Herefordshire
34 Bath and North East Somerset
35 Southend-on-Sea
36 Telford and Wrekin
37 North Lincolnshire
38 Thurrock
39 Bedford
40 Wokingham
41 Reading
42 North East Lincolnshire
43 West Berkshire
44 Windsor and Maidenhead
45 Blackburn with Darwen
46 Slough
47 Isle of Wight
48 Middlesbrough
49 Blackpool
50 Redcar and Cleveland
51 Torbay
52 Halton
53 Bracknell Forest
54 Darlington
55 Hartlepool
56 Rutland