List of non-metropolitan counties of England by population
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This is a list of non-metropolitan counties of England by population.
It includes those non-metropolitan counties (also known as shire counties) with a two-tier county council structure and does not include metropolitan counties or unitary authorities.
In cases where a unitary authority has been detached from a shire county the population of the unitary authority is excluded. For example, Peterborough is excluded from the population figure for Cambridgeshire.
The figures are mid-year estimates for 2007 from the Office for National Statistics[1], amended to reflect the 2009 structural changes to local government in England. The Unitary Authorities of Cornwall, County Durham, Isle of Wight, Northumberland, Shropshire and Wiltshire are now listed in the List of English districts by population.
| Rank | County | Population | Area (in km²) |
Density (people/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kent | 1,394,900 | 3,544 | 394 |
| 2 | Essex | 1,376,400 | 3,465 | 397 |
| 3 | Hampshire | 1,276,800 | 3,679 | 347 |
| 4 | Lancashire | 1,168,100 | 2,903 | 402 |
| 5 | Surrey | 1,098,300 | 1,663 | 661 |
| 6 | Hertfordshire | 1,066,100 | 1,643 | 649 |
| 7 | Norfolk | 840,600 | 5,371 | 157 |
| 8 | Staffordshire | 825,800 | 2,620 | 315 |
| 9 | West Sussex | 776,300 | 1,991 | 390 |
| 10 | Nottinghamshire | 771,900 | 2,085 | 370 |
| 11 | Derbyshire | 758,100 | 2,547 | 298 |
| 12 | Devon | 750,100 | 6,564 | 114 |
| 13 | Suffolk | 709,300 | 3,800 | 187 |
| 14 | Lincolnshire | 692,800 | 5,921 | 117 |
| 15 | Northamptonshire | 678,200 | 2,364 | 287 |
| 16 | Leicestershire | 640,800 | 2,083 | 308 |
| 17 | Oxfordshire | 635,600 | 2,605 | 244 |
| 18 | Cambridgeshire | 597,400 | 3,046 | 196 |
| 19 | North Yorkshire | 595,600 | 8,038 | 74 |
| 20 | Gloucestershire | 582,500 | 2,653 | 220 |
| 21 | Worcestershire | 555,600 | 1,741 | 319 |
| 22 | Warwickshire | 526,800 | 1,975 | 267 |
| 23 | Somerset | 522,700 | 3,451 | 151 |
| 24 | East Sussex | 508,300 | 1,709 | 298 |
| 25 | Cumbria | 497,000 | 6,767 | 73 |
| 26 | Buckinghamshire | 490,600 | 1,565 | 313 |
| 27 | Dorset | 406,800 | 2,542 | 160 |
