Greater Glasgow

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This article refers to the metropolitan settlement. For the NHS Health Board see NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde

Greater Glasgow is the conurbation that includes and surrounds the city of Glasgow in the west of Scotland. It has a population of 1,168,270 (2001 census), making it the largest urban area in Scotland and the fifth largest in the United Kingdom.^[1] The wider commuter area covers approximately 2.3 million people.^[2]

The Glasgow conurbation is served by the largest urban rail network in the UK outside of London,^[3] with 186 rail stations in the Glasgow area. The city is served by the only metro system in Scotland, the Glasgow Subway; and by two international airports, Glasgow Prestwick International Airport^[4] and Glasgow International Airport.^[5] Glasgow in the late 19th and early 20th centuries grew to having a population of over one million people and was the third city in Europe to reach one million, after London and Paris ^[6]. The official population stayed well over one million for more than 40 years.^[7]

In the 1960s large-scale relocation to new towns in the suburban area of the city and many boundary changes since then have reduced the population of the core City of Glasgow council area to 578,790^[8] and 1,749,154^[9] in the Metropolitan area of the city.

Following the local government boundary changes in 1996 and the creation of unitary councils in Scotland, replacing the former regional and district councils, the Greater Glasgow Settlement Area or Urban Area was created for the 2001 Census from groups of neighbouring urban postcodes grouped so that each group of postcode unit contains at least a given number of addresses per unit area and the group contains at least 500 residents.

The area includes the following localities: Airdrie, Bargeddie, Barrhead, Bearsden, Bellshill, Bishopbriggs, Bothwell, Busby, Calderbank, Cambuslang, Carfin, Chapelhall, Clarkston, Clydebank, Coatbridge,Cumbernauld, Duntocher and Hardgate, East Kilbride, Elderslie, Erskine, Faifley, Giffnock, Glasgow City, Holytown, Howwood, Johnstone, Kilbarchan, Kilsyth, Linwood, Milngavie, Milton, Motherwell, New Stevenston, Newarthill, Newmains, Newton Mearns, Old Kilpatrick, Paisley, Renfrew, Rutherglen, Stepps, Tannochside, Uddingston, Viewpark and Wishaw.^[10]

[edit] Demographics

[edit] Population density

Due to council boundary changes since the previous census of 1991, Greater Glasgow has two distinct definitions for the population of Glasgow: the new Glasgow City Council Area (which lost the districts of Rutherglen and Cambuslang to South Lanarkshire) and the Greater Glasgow Metropolitan Settlement Area (including surrounding localities).

Location	Population	Area (km²)	Density (/km²)
Glasgow City Council[11]	578,790	175.49	3,298
Greater Glasgow Urban Area[12]	1,251,332	368.47	3,171
Source: Scotland's Census Results Online[13]

Glasgow is half the density of Inner London.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Notes and references

1. ^ [http://www.statistics.gov.uk/downloads/theme_compendia/fom2005/03_FOPM_UrbanAreas.pdf The UK’s major urban areas] Office for National Statistics, 2005
2. ^ http://www.spt.co.uk/Publications/interchange/issue07.html
3. ^ http://www.spt.co.uk/rail/index.html
4. ^ http://www.gpia.co.uk/
5. ^ http://www.glasgowairport.com/
6. ^ http://www.glasgow.gov.uk/en/Visitors/Architecture/Bridges
7. ^ http://vision.edina.ac.uk/data_cube_table_page.jsp?data_theme=T_POP&data_cube=N_TPop&u_id=10217751&c_id=10090283&add=N
8. ^ The official population of Glasgow City Council unitary authority. General Register Office for Scotland
9. ^ http://www.statistics.gov.uk/downloads/theme_compendia/fom2005/03_FOPM_UrbanAreas.pdf
10. ^ Key Statistics for Settlements and Localities Scotland General Register Office for Scotland
11. ^ The official population of Glasgow City Council unitary authority. General Register Office for Scotland
12. ^ http://www.statistics.gov.uk/downloads/theme_compendia/fom2005/03_FOPM_UrbanAreas.pdf
13. ^ 2001 Census www.scrol.gov.uk/

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