List of non-metropolitan counties of England
This is a list of non-metropolitan counties of England.
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 2008 from the Office for National Statistics.[1] The Unitary Authorities of Cornwall, County Durham, Isle of Wight, Northumberland, Shropshire and Wiltshire (which replaced the authorities for those counties) are listed in the List of English districts by population.
| County | Population[1] | Area (in km²) |
Density (people/km²)[2] |
|---|---|---|---|
| Buckinghamshire | 493,200 | 1,565 | 315 |
| Cambridgeshire | 605,100 | 3,046 | 199 |
| Cumbria | 496,600 | 6,767 | 73 |
| Derbyshire | 762,300 | 2,547 | 299 |
| Devon | 754,800 | 6,564 | 115 |
| Dorset | 407,800 | 2,542 | 160 |
| East Sussex | 509,800 | 1,709 | 298 |
| Essex | 1,396,300 | 3,465 | 403 |
| Gloucestershire | 582,500 | 2,653 | 220 |
| Hampshire | 1,286,000 | 3,679 | 350 |
| Hertfordshire | 1,078,400 | 1,643 | 656 |
| Kent | 1,406,600 | 3,544 | 397 |
| Lancashire | 1,169,100 | 2,903 | 403 |
| Leicestershire | 645,800 | 2,083 | 310 |
| Lincolnshire | 698,100 | 5,921 | 118 |
| Norfolk | 850,800 | 5,371 | 158 |
| North Yorkshire | 599,300 | 8,038 | 75 |
| Northamptonshire | 685,000 | 2,364 | 290 |
| Nottinghamshire | 776,500 | 2,085 | 372 |
| Oxfordshire | 639,700 | 2,605 | 246 |
| Somerset | 525,800 | 3,451 | 152 |
| Staffordshire | 828,900 | 2,620 | 316 |
| Suffolk | 715,700 | 3,800 | 188 |
| Surrey | 1,109,700 | 1,663 | 667 |
| Warwickshire | 530,500 | 1,975 | 269 |
| West Sussex | 781,600 | 1,991 | 393 |
| Worcestershire | 557,600 | 1,741 | 320 |
