Milton Keynes urban area


The Milton Keynes urban area or Milton Keynes Built-up Area is a designation established by the United Kingdom's Office for National Statistics. As with other urban areas, it includes settlements that are physically contiguous with the rest of the built up area but, for historical reasons, regard themselves as being outside it: this urban area includes Newport Pagnell and Woburn Sands.

2011 Urban sub-areas

These are the subdivisions of the Milton Keynes urban area :
Urban subdivisionPopulation
"Milton Keynes" '*171,750
Bletchley37,114
Newport Pagnell15,118
Woburn Sands5,959
Total229,941'''

In defining the sub-areas of the Milton Keynes urban area for the 2001 census, the ONS used the pre-designation urban and rural districts, subdividing the larger rural district by the chronological phases of urbanisation within them). These designations were largely dropped for the 2011 Census. These were:
The corresponding modern Urban Sub-areas were

Bletchley urban sub-area

This area approximates to the boundaries of the former Bletchley Urban District Council at the time of the designation of Milton Keynes. In outline, the ONS Sub-area consisted of Bletchley and Fenny Stratford Civil Parish, West Bletchley Civil Parish and part of Shenley Brook End Civil Parish.

Newport Pagnell urban sub-area

This sub-area is the same as that of the former Newport Pagnell urban district, excluding any part west of the M1 Motorway (which was transferred to the 'Milton Keynes North' area.

Wolverton/Stony Stratford urban sub-area

The area covered by this enumeration district approximated to that of the former Wolverton Urban District and included Stony Stratford CP, Wolverton and Greenleys CP, New Bradwell CP, Stantonbury CP and part of Great Linford CP.

Newport Pagnell Rural was subdivided

The 'Central Milton Keynes' and the 'North Milton Keynes' sub-areas together map to that part of the former Rural District that is west of the River Ouzel. The 'Walnut Tree' and 'Browns Wood' sub-areas together cover the remainder of the Rural District from the Ouzel to the M1. The areas covered by these names are far larger than the parishes of the same name, except for 'North Milton Keynes', which does not exist otherwise.
; Central Milton Keynes urban sub-area: this enumeration district covered an area far larger than Central Milton Keynes Civil Parish. The precise boundaries are no longer readily available. The fragment of Winslow Rural in the designated area, Shenley Church End, was added to "Central Milton Keynes Urban Sub-area".
; North Milton Keynes:this sub-area consisted of the modern part of Bradwell, Rooksley, half of Bradwell Common, Linford Wood, half of Downs Barn, Downhead Park, Willen and Tongwell.
; Walnut Tree urban sub-area: this area covered approximately the districts within an area bounded by the River Ouzel, Standing Way, the former A5130, and Bletcham Way.
; Browns Wood urban sub-area: this area covered approximately the districts within an area bounded by the Ouzel, Bletcham Way, the former A5130, and the Marston Vale line.

Calculation of population

The population of Milton Keynes's Built-up Area was 229,941 according to the 2011 census. This was an increase of almost 25% on the population recorded in the 2001 census of 184,506.