List of settlements in Merseyside by population
This is a list of settlements in Merseyside by population based on the results of the 2011 census. In 2011, there were 20 built-up area subdivisions with 5,000 or more inhabitants in Merseyside, shown in the table below.
Administrative boundaries
Table outlines many of the county's settlements, formatted according to their metropolitan borough:Population ranking
Notes:- † - Huyton and Halewood included in Liverpool count for ONS subdivision area purposes. Liverpool borough-only figures at 2001/2011 censuses were 439,473 and 466,415.
- ‡ - Garswood with Downall Green fall under the Metropolitan Borough of St Helens in Merseyside. These make up the western portion of Ashton-in-Makerfield, which itself is in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan in neighbouring Greater Manchester.