[136] The network consists of eight lines with 99 stops. In 1950, the population of Manchester was 2,422,246. There are approximately 9,563 births each year and around 6,540 deaths. 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 is a town in Hartford County, Connecticut, United States. For purposes of the Office for National Statistics, Manchester forms the most populous settlement within the Greater Manchester Urban Area, the United Kingdom's third-largest conurbation. [119], Manchester has the largest UK office market outside London, according to GVA Grimley, with a quarterly office uptake (averaged over 20102014) of some 250,000 square ft equivalent to the quarterly office uptake of Leeds, Liverpool and Newcastle combined and 90,000 square feet more than the nearest rival, Birmingham. Examples of Manchester's early history are still evident today in the Manchester Cathedral (built in 1421) and the Chetham's Library, which has been open to the public since 1653. From 1975, BBC programmes including Mastermind,[233] and Real Story,[234] were made at New Broadcasting House on Oxford Road. On Saturday 15 June 1996, the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) carried out the 1996 Manchester bombing, the detonation of a large bomb next to a department store in the city centre. Charles Dickens is reputed to have set his novel Hard Times in the city, and though partly modelled on Preston, it shows the influence of his friend Mrs Gaskell. It had a population of 552,000 in 2021. The largest to be detonated on British soil, the bomb injured over 200 people, heavily damaged nearby buildings, and broke windows .mw-parser-output .frac{white-space:nowrap}.mw-parser-output .frac .num,.mw-parser-output .frac .den{font-size:80%;line-height:0;vertical-align:super}.mw-parser-output .frac .den{vertical-align:sub}.mw-parser-output .sr-only{border:0;clip:rect(0,0,0,0);height:1px;margin:-1px;overflow:hidden;padding:0;position:absolute;width:1px}12 mile (800m) away. [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. [27] However, this period of decline coincided with the rise of the city as the financial centre of the region. The airport has the highest rating available: "Category 10", encompassing an elite group of airports able to handle "Code F" aircraft, including the Airbus A380 and Boeing 747-8. The total population of local authority areas varies a lot, from Birmingham with around 1,144,900 people to the Isles of Scilly with around 2,100 people. N2 - Population bottlenecks are assumed to play a key role in the maintenance of social traits in microbes. Population change since 2000: +5.3% Zip codes: 03101, 03102, 03103, 03104, 03109. A chart shows the population rankings of local authority areas for total population size in England in 2011 and 2021. Similarly, the chemical industry started by producing bleaches and dyes, but expanded into other areas. The University of Manchester has introduced LinguaSnapp, a project to develop a multilingual landscape map of Manchester. [191] She probably envisioned Manchester Cathedral churchyard as the burial place for Jane's parents and the birthplace of Jane herself. [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. [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. 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. A larger-than-life statue of Abraham Lincoln by George Gray Barnard in the eponymous Lincoln Square (having stood for many years in Platt Fields) was presented to the city by Mr and Mrs Charles Phelps Taft of Cincinnati, Ohio, to mark the part Lancashire played in the cotton famine and American Civil War of 18611865. [17] Manchester's Irish Festival, including a St Patrick's Day parade, is one of Europe's largest. There has been an increase of 9.6% in people aged 65 years and over, an increase of 7.9% in people aged 15 to 64 years, and an increase of 16.9% in children aged under 15 years. In the 1950s, the city was home to a so-called "Manchester School" of classical composers, which was composed of Harrison Birtwistle, Peter Maxwell Davies, David Ellis and Alexander Goehr. The latter exemplifies a new surge in high-rise building. Manchester has formal twinning arrangements (or "friendship agreements") with several places. The cenotaph in St Peter's Square is Manchester's main memorial to its war dead. Established in 1515,[210] as a free grammar school next to what is now the cathedral, it moved in 1931 to Old Hall Lane in Fallowfield, south Manchester, to accommodate the growing student body. Manchester is a large city in the northwest of England in the United Kingdom. Please don't include any personal or financial information, for example your National Insurance or credit card numbers. [118] 37 per cent of the working-age population in Manchester have degree-level qualifications, as opposed to an average of 33 per cent across other core cities,[118] although its schools under-perform slightly compared with the national average. [14] Their territory extended across the fertile lowland of what is now Salford and Stretford. [117], Women fare better in Manchester than the rest of the country in comparative pay with men. [45] New and renovated complexes such as The Printworks and Corn Exchange have become popular shopping, eating and entertainment areas. It gained university status in 1992, and in the same year absorbed Crewe and Alsager College of Higher Education in South Cheshire. [27] Manchester continued to process cotton, and in 1913, 65% of the world's cotton was processed in the area. Manchester is a centre for musical education: the Royal Northern College of Music and Chetham's School of Music. [11][12] However, more recent work suggests that it could come from *mamma ("mother", in reference to a local river goddess). Based on the latest 2022 data from the US census, the current population of Manchester is 115,462. It caused worldwide condemnation and changed the UK's threat level to "critical" for the first time since 2007. [163] Manchester also has the most indie and rock music events outside London. The Guardian newspaper was founded in the city in 1821 as The Manchester Guardian. 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The history of Manchester began with the civilian settlement associated with the Roman fort (castra) of Mamucium or Mancunium, established in about AD 79 on a sandstone bluff near the confluence of the rivers Medlock and Irwell. The population of Manchester has seen a variety of figures over the past ten years. Manchesters minimum annual growth rate is 0.57%, while its maximum is 1.19%. This means that Manchester adds approximately 3,005-6,106 people each year to its overall population. The area of each circle indicates the total population. [122], Manchester also has a number of skyscrapers built in the 1960s and 1970s, the tallest being the CIS Tower near Manchester Victoria station until the Beetham Tower was completed in 2006. [21] By 1421 Thomas de la Warre founded and constructed a collegiate church for the parish, now Manchester Cathedral; the domestic premises of the college house Chetham's School of Music and Chetham's Library. The map then zooms to centre on Manchester and show neighbouring areas. The combination of competition and improved efficiency halved the cost of coal and halved the transport cost of raw cotton. [181], Manchester is a UNESCO City of Literature known for a "radical literary history". [177][178], In the south of the city, the Whitworth Art Gallery displays modern art, sculpture and textiles and was voted Museum of the Year in 2015. Manchester is highlighted on the bar chart along with other local authority areas in the North West. Manchester was the regional base for BBC One North West Region programmes before it relocated to MediaCityUK in nearby Salford Quays.[236][237]. This represents a population Historically part of Lancashire, areas of Cheshire south of the River Mersey were incorporated into Manchester in the 20th century, including Wythenshawe in 1931. [45], Manchester has a history of attacks attributed to Irish Republicans, including the Manchester Martyrs of 1867, arson in 1920, a series of explosions in 1939, and two bombs in 1992. In 2019, the Manchester Local Education Authority was ranked second to last out of Greater Manchester's ten LEAs and 140th out of 151 in the country LEAs based on the percentage of pupils attaining grades 4 or above in English and mathematics GCSEs (General Certificate of Secondary Education) with 56.2 per cent compared with the national average of 64.9 per cent. Manchester township, Ocean County, New Jersey; Phillipsburg town, Warren County, New Jersey; Deptford township, Gloucester County, New Jersey QuickFacts provides statistics for all states and counties, and for cities and towns with a The chart continues to show all areas of England as dots, ordered by the percentage change in total population, with the largest decreases towards the left and the largest increases towards the right. In Manchester, the population size has increased by 9.7%, from around 503,100 in 2011 to 552,000 in 2021. In 1950, the population of Manchester was 2,422,246. An 6,547,000 people were estimated in 2012 to live within 30 miles (50km) of Manchester and 11,694,000 within 50 miles (80km). [187], Letitia Landon's poetical illustration Manchester to a vista over the city by G. Pickering in Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1835, records the rapid growth of the city and its cultural importance.[188]. WebManchester is a village in southeast Scott County, Illinois, United States. 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. As of 2021, Manchester is the most densely populated of the North West's 39 local authority areas, with around 34 people living on each football pitch-sized area of land. [176], The municipally owned Manchester Art Gallery in Mosley Street houses a permanent collection of European painting and one of Britain's main collections of Pre-Raphaelite paintings. Manchester is 35.0 miles (56.3km) north-east of Liverpool and 35.0 miles (56.3km) north-west of Sheffield, making the city the halfway point between the two. In 2012 an estimated 2,702,200 people lived in Greater Manchester. The Manchester television channel, Channel M, owned by the Guardian Media Group operated from 2000, but closed in 2012. [197], The Madchester scene of the 1980s, from which groups including The Stone Roses, the Happy Mondays, Inspiral Carpets, 808 State, James and The Charlatans emerged, was based around clubs such as The Haienda. "[38] Manchester's golden age was perhaps the last quarter of the 19th century. At the time of the agreement, it was in the, textile manufacture during the Industrial Revolution, Manchester Liverpool Road railway station, The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844, List of companies based in Greater Manchester, Globalization and World Cities Research Network, List of tallest buildings and structures in Manchester, Grade I listed buildings in Greater Manchester, Grade II* listed buildings in Greater Manchester, over double the number of annual passengers, Greater Manchester Police Air Support Unit, List of music artists and bands from Manchester. The places that have seen the largest increases in the population aged 65 years and over are Milton Keynes in the South East, which has seen 43.6% growth, and Harborough in the East Midlands (38.5%). Local level population data from the2020Mid Year Estimates, and 2011 census data on ethnicity, can be found in the Intelligence Hub, where you can view and download the data on a map and a chart. Day, for example, students and in some urban areas.These changes As of today, the most recent published UK Census data was for 2011. [209] Together they have a combined population of over 80,000 students as of 2022.[203]. Anglo-American author Frances Hodgson Burnett was born in the city's Cheetham Hill district in 1849, and wrote much of her classic children's novel The Secret Garden while visiting nearby Salford's Buile Hill Park. At the other end of the population density scale for England, the amount of land in Eden in Cumbria works out at around five pitches per resident. [6] It is bordered by the Cheshire Plain to the south, the Pennines to the north and east, and the neighbouring city of Salford to the west. 4.7 per cent were mixed race (1.8 per cent White and Black Caribbean, 0.9 per cent White and Black African, 1.0 per cent White and Asian, 1.0 per cent other mixed), 17.1 per cent Asian (2.3 per cent Indian, 8.5 per cent Pakistani, 1.3 per cent Bangladeshi, 2.7 per cent Chinese, 2.3 per cent other Asian), 8.6 per cent Black (5.1 per cent African, 1.6 per cent other Black), 1.9 per cent Arab and 1.2 per cent of other ethnic heritage. Feedback submitted to us on this form is monitored but you wont receive a reply. [91], In terms of ethnic composition, the City of Manchester has the highest non-white proportion of any district in Greater Manchester. [17] In 1878 the GPO (the forerunner of British Telecom) provided its first telephones to a firm in Manchester.[33]. In 1780, Richard Arkwright began construction of Manchester's first cotton mill. [244], Manchester is home to the largest group of consuls in the UK outside London. [140], The city has one of the most extensive bus networks outside London, with over 50 bus companies operating in the Greater Manchester region radiating from the city. Designed by Edwin Lutyens, it echoes the original on Whitehall in London. It is achieved by restricting inappropriate development within the designated areas and imposing stricter conditions on permitted building. WebThe population of the boroughs in the Metropolitan County of Greater Manchester. might have been temporary for some and more long-lasting for others.First results from Census 2021 are rounded to the nearest 100 so may 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. [61] The River Mersey flows through the south of Manchester. The metro area population of Manchester in 2020 was 2,730,000, a 0.74% increase from 2019. The economy grew relatively strongly between 2002 and 2012, when growth was 2.3 per cent above the national average. The Manchester station group comprising Manchester Piccadilly, Manchester Victoria, Manchester Oxford Road and Deansgate is the third busiest in the United Kingdom, with 44.9million passengers recorded in 2017/2018. WebManchester has a total of 5,228 people and of those residents there are 2,468 males and 2,760 females. [114] Unemployment throughout 20122013 averaged 11.9 per cent, which was above national average, but lower than some of the country's comparable large cities. [141][143][144] Stagecoach Manchester is the Stagecoach Group's largest subsidiary and operates around 690 buses. [160] Other venues include Manchester Apollo, Albert Hall, Victoria Warehouse and the Manchester Academy. 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