WebManchester is a village in southeast Scott County, Illinois, United States. [18][19], In the Domesday Book of 1086, Manchester is recorded as within the hundred of Salford and held as tenant in chief by a Norman named Roger of Poitou,[20] later being held by the family of Grelley, lord of the manor and residents of Manchester Castle until 1215 before a Manor House was built. It has a population of 2.7 million people in the urban A smaller City Airport Manchester exists 9.3km (6mi) to the west of Manchester city centre. The size of the Jewish population in Greater Manchester is the largest in Britain outside London. It shows males and females in each age group as a percentage of the total population for Manchester in 2011. The icon links to further information about a selected division including its population structure (gender, age groups, age distribution, country of birth, ethnic group, religion). The Greater Manchester Combined Authority, with a directly elected mayor, has responsibilities for economic strategy and transport, amongst other areas, on a Greater Manchester-wide basis. As of today, the most recent published UK Census data was for 2011. Population Estimates, July 1 2021, (V2021) . In 2011, 80 per cent of public transport journeys in Greater Manchester were made by bus, amounting to 220million passenger journeys each year. Compared with Greater Manchester and with England, Manchester has a younger population, with a particularly large 2035 age group.[85]. The cost of the immediate damage was initially estimated at 50million, but this was quickly revised upwards. [171] The 110million venue was confirmed in July 2016. There are approximately 9,563 births each year and around 6,540 deaths. The "Manchester City Zone", "Manchester post town" and the "Manchester Congestion Charge" are all examples of this. A map shows the English regions and Wales. 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] Much of the wider area was laid waste in the subsequent Harrying of the North. The number of people on the pitch, or the number of pitches for one person, changes as described in the text content. Its fortune declined after the Second World War, owing to deindustrialisation, and the IRA bombing in 1996 led to extensive investment and regeneration. The metro area population of Manchester in 2020 was 2,730,000, a 0.74% increase from 2019. In 1889, when county councils were created in England, the municipal borough became a county borough with even greater autonomy. These features are its climate, its proximity to a seaport at Liverpool, the availability of water power from its rivers, and its nearby coal reserves.[62]. [17] By 1963 the port of Manchester was the UK's third largest,[42] and employed over 3,000 men, but the canal was unable to handle the increasingly large container ships. As of January 1 2023, the latest ONS statistics are for 2021. [217] Manchester hosted the World Squash Championships in 2008,[218] the 2010 World Lacrosse Championship,[219] the 2013 Ashes series, 2013 Rugby League World Cup and 2015 Rugby World Cup. In 1853, Manchester was granted city status.[58]. Many of the great public buildings (including Manchester Town Hall) date from then. WebGreater Manchester is a metropolitan county and combined authority area in North West England, with a population of 2.8 million; [3] comprising ten metropolitan boroughs: Manchester is highlighted. Its main pop music venue is Manchester Arena, voted "International Venue of the Year" in 2007. [121], Manchester's buildings display a variety of architectural styles, ranging from Victorian to contemporary architecture. (COVID-19) pandemic affected people's choice of usual residence on Census [59] It was this separation that resulted in Salford becoming the judicial seat of Salfordshire, which included the ancient parish of Manchester. [66] Snowfalls are not common in the city because of the urban warming effect but the West Pennine Moors to the north-west, South Pennines to the north-east and Peak District to the east receive more snow, which can close roads leading out of the city. What is the current population of Manchester? The Centre on Dynamics of Ethnicity (CoDE)has releasedbriefing papers on issues relating to ethnicity from 2011 Census data. The English region with the smallest increase was the North East, growing by 1.9% or around 50,000 people. [145], Manchester Airport serves Manchester, Northern England and North Wales. [214] Manchester City's home is the City of Manchester Stadium in Bradford in east Manchester, built for the 2002 Commonwealth Games and then reconfigured as a football ground. [208], The three universities are grouped around Oxford Road on the southern side of the city centre, which forms Europe's largest urban higher-education precinct. 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 A population pyramid is displayed. Two bids to host the Olympic Games were part of a process to raise the international profile of the city. [150] Today, private charter flights and general aviation use City. The MCCFM 2021 estimates that the residential population in 2021 was 586,100, 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. A large part of the historic city centre was destroyed, including 165 warehouses, 200 business premises, and 150 offices. Manchester lost 150,000 jobs in manufacturing between 1961 and 1983. Manchester hosts consular services for most of the north of England. QuickFacts provides statistics for all states and counties, and for cities and towns with a population of 5,000 or more. [225][226][227] Granada produces Coronation Street,[228] local news and programmes for North West England. [14] Their territory extended across the fertile lowland of what is now Salford and Stretford. Competition between the various forms of transport kept costs down. [110] Meanwhile, KPMG's competitive alternative report found that in 2012 Manchester had the 9th lowest tax cost of any industrialised city in the world,[111] and fiscal devolution has come earlier to Manchester than to any other British city: it can keep half the extra taxes it gets from transport investment. [17] In 1878 the GPO (the forerunner of British Telecom) provided its first telephones to a firm in Manchester.[33]. [17] Manchester's Irish Festival, including a St Patrick's Day parade, is one of Europe's largest. The Science and Industry Museum, housed in the former Liverpool Road railway station, has a large collection of steam locomotives, industrial machinery, aircraft and a replica of the world's first stored computer program (known as the Manchester Baby). [109] It owns two of the country's four busiest airports and uses its earnings to fund local projects. [159] In terms of concertgoers, it is the busiest indoor arena in the world, ahead of Madison Square Garden in New York and The O2 Arena in London, which are second and third busiest. WebManchester township, Ocean County, New Jersey; Woolwich township, Gloucester County, New Jersey; Deptford township, Gloucester County, New Jersey QuickFacts provides statistics for all states and counties, and for cities and towns with a U.S. Census Bureau QuickFacts: Manchester city, New Hampshire QuickFacts Manchester city, New Hampshire Table (a) Includes persons reporting only one race (c) 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. The Cutting It series set in the city's Northern Quarter and The Street were set in Manchester[235] as was Life on Mars. [220] The Manchester Evening News has the largest circulation of a UK regional evening newspaper and is distributed free of charge in the city centre on Thursdays and Fridays, but paid for in the suburbs. [84], The 2012 mid-year estimate for the population of Manchester was 510,700. [181], Manchester is a UNESCO City of Literature known for a "radical literary history". 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. The map then zooms to centre on Manchester and show neighbouring areas. The University of Manchester is the second largest full-time non-collegiate university in the United Kingdom,[203] created in 2004 by the merger of Victoria University of Manchester, founded in 1904, and UMIST, founded in 1956,[204] having developed from the Mechanics' Institute founded, as indicated in the university's logo, in 1824. A number of television studios have been in operation around the city, and have since relocated to MediaCityUK in neighbouring Salford. [159] With over 21,000 seats, it is the largest arena of its type in Europe. Singer-songwriter Ren Harvieu is also from Greater Manchester. [229][230], With the growth in regional television in the 1950s, Manchester became one of the BBC's three main centres in England. Manchester city centre, specifically the Castlefield Corridor, suffers from constrained rail capacity that frequently leads to delays and cancellations a 2018 report found that all three major Manchester stations are among the top ten worst stations in the United Kingdom for punctuality, with Oxford Road deemed the worst in the country. Description of 'Manchester Business School, Manchester Business School Archive, 1965-2002. [24] Around the 14th century, Manchester received an influx of Flemish weavers, sometimes credited as the foundation of the region's textile industry. It is ranked as a beta world city by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network.[107]. 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. [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. [15] A stabilised fragment of foundations of the final version of the Roman fort is visible in Castlefield. 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). [52] It was the deadliest terrorist attack and first suicide bombing in Britain since the 7 July 2005 London bombings. The city's average annual rainfall is 806.6 millimetres (31.76in)[64] compared to a UK average of 1,125.0 millimetres (44.29in),[65] and its mean rain days are 140.4 per annum,[64] compared to the UK average of 154.4. 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. Population Estimates, July 1 2021, (V2021) . Manchester's recorded history started with a settlement associated with the Roman fort Mamucium, established in c. 79 CE to ensure Roman interests in modern-day York and Chester were protected from the Brigantes, a Celtic tribe in what is now Northern England. WebManchester's 2023 population is now estimated at 3,028,104. It is achieved by restricting inappropriate development within the designated areas and imposing stricter conditions on permitted building. The first edition of Top of the Pops was broadcast here on New Year's Day 1964. Manchester is located at (39.541840, -90.329390). 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Manchester, the UKs second-largest city, is a successful borough that has maintained its status as a major city and In more recent years, temperatures have occasionally reached over 30C. [85], The Greater Manchester Built-up Area in 2011 had an estimated population of 2,553,400. The metro area population of Manchester in 2021 was 2,750,000, a 0.73% Although not long-lasting, Cromwell granted it the right to elect its own MP. Migration (internal and international) and other changes accounted for a net increase of 3,100 people between July 2011 and June 2012. There is a mix of high-density urban and suburban locations. [169], Since 2007 the city has hosted the Manchester International Festival, a biennial international arts festival with a focus on original work, which has included major new commissions by artists, including Bjork. The University of Manchester has introduced LinguaSnapp, a project to develop a multilingual landscape map of Manchester. The cenotaph in St Peter's Square is Manchester's main memorial to its war dead. Statistics from the 2011 census showed that 66.7 per cent of the population was White (59.3 per cent White British, 2.4 per cent White Irish, 0.1 per cent Gypsy or Irish Traveller, 4.9 per cent Other White although the size of mixed European and British ethnic groups is unclear, there are reportedly over 25,000 people in Greater Manchester of at least partial Italian descent alone, which represents 5.5 per cent of the population of Greater Manchester[92]). 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. [173] The Museum of Transport displays a collection of historic buses and trams. Manchester township, Ocean County, New Jersey. [11][12] However, more recent work suggests that it could come from *mamma ("mother", in reference to a local river goddess). [109], KPMG's competitive alternative report also found that Manchester was Europe's most affordable city featured, ranking slightly better than the Dutch cities of Rotterdam and Amsterdam, which all have a cost-of-living index of less than 95. A drawing of a football pitch is displayed. The largest skyscraper is now Deansgate Square South Tower, at 201 metres (659 feet).The Green Building, opposite Oxford Road station, is a pioneering eco-friendly housing project, while the recently completed One Angel Square, is one of the most sustainable large buildings in the world. [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. There are several areas that serve as a center for ethnic minority populations, including Rusholme, Cheetham Hill, Moss Side and Longsight. Geography. [153] It ceased to operate in June 2018, citing poor infrastructure. By attending status, there are 1,376 full-time and 73 part-time students with gender distribution of 684 male and 765 female students. Historically part of Lancashire, areas of Cheshire south of the River Mersey were incorporated into Manchester in the 20th century, including Wythenshawe in 1931. In Manchester, the population size has increased by 9.7%, from around 503,100 in 2011 to 552,000 in 2021. [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. 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. Manchester also has a percentage of gay and lesbian people that is higher than the English national average: 0.23% of people were in a same-sex civil partnership, compared to the national average of 0.16%. The data used in this article are available to download at the end. The places that have seen the largest increases in the population aged under 15 years are Dartford in Kent, where the size of this age group increased by 31.8% between 2011 and 2021, and Peterborough in the East of England (23.8%). It is still extant and its buildings form part of the Science & Industry Museum. Manchester's civic leadership has a reputation for business acumen. Manchester began expanding "at an astonishing rate" around the turn of the 19th century as people flocked to the city for work from Scotland, Wales, Ireland and other areas of England as part of a process of unplanned urbanisation brought on by the Industrial Revolution. Manchester has a population density of 12,210 people living per square mile (4,716 people living per square kilometer) and is the 9th densest city in the United Kingdom. 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. Many of the big clubs suffered problems with organised crime at that time; Haslam describes one where staff were so completely intimidated that free admission and drinks were demanded (and given) and drugs were openly dealt. In Wales, the population grew by 1.4% or 44,000 people. partially state funded), but it reverted to independent status in 1976 after abolition of the direct-grant system. The Manchester Ship Canal opened in 1894, creating the Port of Manchester and linking the city to the Irish Sea, 36 miles (58km) to the west. 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. [27] Manchester continued to process cotton, and in 1913, 65% of the world's cotton was processed in the area. The economics books Marx was reading at the time can be seen in the library, as can the window seat where Marx and Engels would meet. The city has the highest number of local radio stations outside London, including BBC Radio Manchester, Hits Radio Manchester, Capital Manchester and Lancashire, Greatest Hits Radio Manchester & The North West, Heart North West, Smooth North West, Gold, Radio X, NMFM (North Manchester FM) and XS Manchester. In 20162017, 37.8million passenger journeys were made on the system. In England, the largest age group in 2021 was people aged 30 to 34 years. 'Manchester' a poetical illustration by L. E. L. 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