Charles Worsley, who sat for the city for only a year, was later appointed Major General for Lancashire, Cheshire and Staffordshire during the Rule of the Major Generals. [172]:15, Manchester's museums celebrate Manchester's Roman history, rich industrial heritage and its role in the Industrial Revolution, the textile industry, the Trade Union movement, women's suffrage and football. Elsewhere in the city, the John Rylands Library holds an extensive collection of early printing. [129] The High Speed 2 link to Birmingham and London is also planned, which if built will include a 12km (7mi) tunnel under Manchester on the final approach into an upgraded Piccadilly station. Housing two theatre spaces, five cinemas and an art exhibition space, it replaced the Cornerhouse and The Library Theatre. Manchester has the largest Jewish population in Britain outside of London. Manchester township, Ocean County, New Jersey. Manchester United play home games at Old Trafford, the largest club ground in the United Kingdom although this is not located within the City of Manchester and is in the neighbouring metropolitan borough of Trafford. [12][11], The Brigantes were the major Celtic tribe in what is now known as Northern England; they had a stronghold in the locality at a sandstone outcrop on which Manchester Cathedral now stands, opposite the bank of the River Irwell. A large part of the historic city centre was destroyed, including 165 warehouses, 200 business premises, and 150 offices. [141][143][144] Stagecoach Manchester is the Stagecoach Group's largest subsidiary and operates around 690 buses. Manchester has six designated local nature reserves: Chorlton Water Park, Blackley Forest, Clayton Vale and Chorlton Ees, Ivy Green, Boggart Hole Clough and Highfield Country Park.[127]. Later these were taken over by First Greater Manchester and Stagecoach Manchester. [170] It is due to open at the end of 2019. QuickFacts Manchester town, Hartford County, Connecticut Table (a) Includes persons reporting only one race (c) Economic Census - Puerto Rico data are not comparable to U.S. Economic Census data (b) Hispanics may be of any race, so also are included in applicable race categories The biggest took place during the Christmas Blitz on the nights of 22/23 and 24 December 1940, when an estimated 474 tonnes (467 long tons) of high explosives plus over 37,000 incendiary bombs were dropped. [170] Later the council stated it had secured a further 32million. WebManchester has always been vastly more populous than any other district of Greater Manchester. It caused worldwide condemnation and changed the UK's threat level to "critical" for the first time since 2007. [248], Italics denote building under construction, These audio files were created from a revision of this article dated 3February2008. [49] In January 2007, the independent Casino Advisory Panel licensed Manchester to build the UK's only supercasino,[50] but plans were abandoned in February 2008. WebManchester Population Statistics Source & Methodology Manchester Population & Age Distribution Total Population 115,462 Age Under 5 Years: 5.2% 5 - 17: 13.2% 18 - 24: 10.3% 25 - 34: 18.8% 35 - 54: 25.9% 55 - 64: 13.0% Over 65 Years: 13.7% Educational Attainment of Adults Attending College High School Graduates College Graduated 5.1% The age group with the largest number of people is highlighted. The sizes of these circles are proportionate to the size of the population in each local authority area. Old mills have been converted into apartments. In more recent years, temperatures have occasionally reached over 30C. Historian Simon Schama noted that "Manchester was the very best and the very worst taken to terrifying extremes, a new kind of city in the world; the chimneys of industrial suburbs greeting you with columns of smoke". Manchester Population Review. Telephone: +44 1329 44 4972, Rank of local authority areas for population size in England, view the full Census 2021 first results dataset, download the data used in this article (XLSX, 138KB), download data from the 2011 Census (XLSX, 265KB). Manchester was credited as the main driving force behind British indie music of the 1980s led by The Smiths, later including The Stone Roses, Happy Mondays, Inspiral Carpets, and James. The map zooms out to show the percentage change in population size in all local authority areas in the North West. The Alan Turing Memorial in Sackville Park commemorates his role as the father of modern computing. [58] Pevsner wrote "That [neighbouring] Stretford and Salford are not administratively one with Manchester is one of the most curious anomalies of England". The University of Manchester is the second largest full-time non-collegiate university in the United Kingdom,[203] created in 2004 by the merger of Victoria University of Manchester, founded in 1904, and UMIST, founded in 1956,[204] having developed from the Mechanics' Institute founded, as indicated in the university's logo, in 1824. [27] In Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, the term "manchester" is still used for household linen: sheets, pillow cases, towels, etc. Manchester was one of the centres of textile manufacture during the Industrial Revolution. Web2011 Census Data - Resident Population of Greater Manchester. AU - Brockhurst, Michael A. PY - 2007/7/25. [29] The industrial revolution brought about huge change in Manchester and was key to the increase in Manchester's population. He wrote here the dystopian satire A Clockwork Orange in 1962. Dartford was second, increasing 20.0%. The percentage of Muslims has increased as well from 9.1% to 15.8%. QuickFacts provides statistics for all states and counties, and for cities and towns with a population of 5,000 or more. [226] In 1954, the BBC opened its first regional BBC Television studio outside London, Dickenson Road Studios, in a converted Methodist chapel in Rusholme. [120] The strong office market in Manchester has been partly attributed to "northshoring", (from offshoring) which entails the relocation or alternative creation of jobs away from the overheated South to areas where office space is possibly cheaper and the workforce market less saturated. Historically part of Lancashire, areas of Cheshire south of the River Mersey were incorporated into Manchester in the 20th century, including Wythenshawe in 1931. The Bridgewater Canal, Britain's first wholly artificial waterway, was opened in 1761, bringing coal from mines at Worsley to central Manchester. 45,649. Source: UK Office for National Statistics (web). [48], Large city sections from the 1960s have been demolished, re-developed or modernised with the use of glass and steel. Bands that have emerged from the Manchester music scene include Van der Graaf Generator, Oasis, The Smiths, Joy Division and its successor group New Order, Buzzcocks, The Stone Roses, The Fall, The Durutti Column, 10cc, Godley & Creme, The Verve, Elbow, Doves, The Charlatans, M People, The 1975, Simply Red, Take That, Dutch Uncles, Everything Everything, Pale Waves and The Outfield. [142] Go North West operate a three-route zero-fare Manchester Metroshuttle, which carries 2.8million commuters a year around Manchester's business districts. This is how Manchester compares. [225][226][227] Granada produces Coronation Street,[228] local news and programmes for North West England. WebManchester is a village in southeast Scott County, Illinois, United States. [18], During the English Civil War Manchester strongly favoured the Parliamentary interest. It attracted educated visitors from all parts of Britain and Europe. It is achieved by restricting inappropriate development within the designated areas and imposing stricter conditions on permitted building. [182][183] Manchester in the 19th century featured in works highlighting the changes that industrialisation had brought. As of today, the most recent published UK Census data was for 2011. In 2012 it showed the strongest annual growth in business stock (5 per cent) of all core cities. The population of England and Wales has increased by more than 3.5 million in the 10 years leading up to Census 2021. Religious beliefs, according to the 2021 census[90], Since the 2001 census, the proportion of Christians in Manchester has fallen by 22 per cent from 62.4 per cent to 48.7 per cent in 2011. The "Manchester City Zone", "Manchester post town" and the "Manchester Congestion Charge" are all examples of this. [239][240] Student radio stations include Fuse FM at the University of Manchester and MMU Radio at the Manchester Metropolitan University. [124] The city has 135 parks, gardens, and open spaces.[125]. [146] Services cover many destinations in Europe, North America, the Caribbean, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia (with more destinations from Manchester than any other airport in Britain). In 20162017, 37.8million passenger journeys were made on the system. NA. The largest skyscraper is now Deansgate Square South Tower, at 201 metres (659 feet).The Green Building, opposite Oxford Road station, is a pioneering eco-friendly housing project, while the recently completed One Angel Square, is one of the most sustainable large buildings in the world. Manchester has formal twinning arrangements (or "friendship agreements") with several places. The Manchester Ship Canal opened in 1894, creating the Port of Manchester and linking the city to the Irish Sea, 36 miles (58km) to the west. These estimates represent These population estimates and projections come from the latest revision of the UN World Urbanization Prospects. [211] Its previous premises are now used by Chetham's School of Music. [10] Following considerable redevelopment, Manchester was the host city for the 2002 Commonwealth Games. NA. [24] Around the 14th century, Manchester received an influx of Flemish weavers, sometimes credited as the foundation of the region's textile industry. [165] Forerunners of the RNCM were the Northern School of Music (founded 1920) and the Royal Manchester College of Music (founded 1893), which merged in 1973. Manchester began to expand rapidly during the 19th century as more people came to the city for work from Scotland, Ireland and other areas during the Industrial Revolution. As of January 1 2023, the latest ONS statistics are for 2021. In 1950, the population of Manchester was 2,422,246. The Cutting It series set in the city's Northern Quarter and The Street were set in Manchester[235] as was Life on Mars. [17], Regeneration began in the late 1980s, with initiatives such as the Metrolink, the Bridgewater Concert Hall, the Manchester Arena, and (in Salford) the rebranding of the port as Salford Quays. In England, the largest age group in 2021 was people aged 30 to 34 years. Please don't include any personal or financial information, for example your National Insurance or credit card numbers. WebManchester is a village in southeast Scott County, Illinois, United States. Manchester has a thriving theatre, opera and dance scene, with a number of large performance venues, including Manchester Opera House, which feature large-scale touring shows and West End productions; the Palace Theatre; and the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester's former cotton exchange, which is the largest theatre in the round in the UK. [17] The Irwell and Mersey were made navigable by 1736, opening a route from Manchester to the sea docks on the Mersey. As of the 2000 census, the village population was 354. A chart shows the population rankings of local authority areas for total population size in England in 2011 and 2021. People. The population pyramid turns into a horizontal bar chart, with bars representing the percentage change in the number of people of any sex in each five-year age group in England. 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