The data used in this article are available to download at the end. [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. [27] Thereafter the number began to decline and Manchester was surpassed as the largest centre of cotton spinning by Bolton in the 1850s and Oldham in the 1860s. Many of the great public buildings (including Manchester Town Hall) date from then. [209] Together they have a combined population of over 80,000 students as of 2022.[203]. An extensive canal network, including the Manchester Ship Canal, was built to carry freight from the Industrial Revolution onward; the canals are still maintained, though now largely repurposed for leisure use. The latter exemplifies a new surge in high-rise building. [142] Go North West operate a three-route zero-fare Manchester Metroshuttle, which carries 2.8million commuters a year around Manchester's business districts. [199] The night-time economy has a value of about 100million,[200] and supports 12,000 jobs. Manchester is a centre for musical education: the Royal Northern College of Music and Chetham's School of Music. The National Cycling Centre includes a velodrome, BMX Arena and Mountainbike trials, and is the home of British Cycling, UCI ProTeam Team Sky and Sky Track Cycling. [14] Central Manchester has been permanently settled since this time. 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 Dancehouse on Oxford Road is dedicated to dance productions. [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. Manchester is the 6th largest city in the United Kingdom with an estimated population of 530,300 in 2016. Manchester Zip Code Map Estimated median household income in 2019: $64,162 ( it was $40,774 in 2000) Estimated per capita income in 2019: $34,630 ( it was $21,244 in WebManchester Population Statistics Source & Methodology Manchester Population & Age Distribution Total Population 115,462 Age Under 5 Years: 5.2% 5 - 17: 13.2% 18 - 24: 10.3% 25 - 34: 18.8% 35 - 54: 25.9% 55 - 64: 13.0% Over 65 Years: 13.7% Educational Attainment of Adults Attending College High School Graduates College Graduated 5.1% U.S. Census Bureau QuickFacts: Manchester city, New Hampshire QuickFacts Manchester city, New Hampshire Table (a) Includes persons reporting only one race (c) The map now highlights the areas with the largest increases in children aged under 15 years. At the other end of the scale, Copeland has seen a fall of 5.0%. [86] Manchester's population is projected to reach 532,200 by 2021, an increase of 5.8 per cent from 2011. 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. The National Indoor BMX Arena (2,000 capacity) adjacent to the velodrome opened in 2011. Manchester has formal twinning arrangements (or "friendship agreements") with several places. The metro area population of Manchester in 2021 was 2,750,000, a 0.73% increase from 2020. [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. Overall, in England, there has been an increase of 20.1% in people aged 65 years and over, an increase of 3.6% in people aged 15 to 64 years, and an increase of 5.0% in children aged under 15 years. Of all households in Manchester, 0.23 per cent were Same-Sex Civil Partnership households, compared with an English national average of 0.16 per cent in 2011.[87]. A smaller City Airport Manchester exists 9.3km (6mi) to the west of Manchester city centre. WebManchester has always been vastly more populous than any other district of Greater Manchester. [22] Just outside the immediate city centre are a large number of former cotton mills, some of which have been left virtually untouched since their closure, while many have been redeveloped as apartment buildings and office space. [35], Manchester has a notable place in the history of Marxism and left-wing politics; being the subject of Friedrich Engels' work The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844; Engels spent much of his life in and around Manchester,[36] and when Karl Marx visited Manchester, they met at Chetham's Library. This population pyramid shows the population of males and females in each five-year age group at the time of the 2011 Census.The largest age group in the North West back then was those aged 45 to 49 years. [30][31][32] It developed a wide range of industries, so that by 1835 "Manchester was without challenge the first and greatest industrial city in the world. [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. At 9.7%, Manchester's population increase is higher than the increase for the North West (5.2%). From then the population began to decrease rapidly, due to slum clearance and the increased building of social housing overspill estates by Manchester City Council after the Second World W Manchester has grown by 18,202 in the last year, which represents a 0.60% annual change. [82] The green belt was first drawn up in 1961. The University of Manchester includes the Manchester Business School, which offered the first MBA course in the UK in 1965. WebManchester City Council has developed its own population forecasting model (MCCFM). The 2011 census found the racial and ethnic composition of Manchester was: Since 2001, the share of Christians in Manchester has fallen from 62.4% to 48.7%, while the percentage of people with no religious affiliation increased from 16% to 25.4%. Manchester's unplanned urbanisation was brought on by a boom in textile manufacture during the Industrial Revolution,[8] and resulted in it becoming the world's first industrialised city. Manchester regained its borough status in 1838, and comprised the townships of Beswick, Cheetham Hill, Chorlton upon Medlock and Hulme. One of the earliest instructors and classical music pianists/conductors at the RNCM, shortly after its founding, was the Russian-born Arthur Friedheim, (18591932), who later had the music library at the famed Peabody Institute conservatory of music in Baltimore, Maryland, named after him. WebAccording to data from the UK's Office for National Statistics (ONS), the current population of Manchester is 549,900. A saying capturing this sense of innovation survives today: "What Manchester does today, the rest of the world does tomorrow. Elsewhere in the city, the John Rylands Library holds an extensive collection of early printing. Manchester encompasses a large number of historical and enthralling sights like Hilton Tower, Heathon Park, One The Centre on Dynamics of Ethnicity (CoDE)has releasedbriefing papers on issues relating to ethnicity from 2011 Census data. [91], In terms of ethnic composition, the City of Manchester has the highest non-white proportion of any district in Greater Manchester. The map zooms out to show the percentage change in population size in all local authority areas in the North West. [135] The present system mostly runs on former commuter rail lines converted for light rail use, and crosses the city centre via on-street tram lines. 135149. [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. In 2012 an estimated 2,702,200 people lived in Greater Manchester. Significant quantities of cotton began to be used after about 1600, firstly in linen/cotton fustians, but by around 1750 pure cotton fabrics were being produced and cotton had overtaken wool in importance. [212] Of the 63 secondary schools in the LEA, four had 80 per cent or more pupils achieving Grade 4 or above in English and maths GCSEs: Manchester High School for Girls, The King David High School, Manchester Islamic High School for Girls, and Kassim Darwish Grammar School for Boys.[213]. [211] Its previous premises are now used by Chetham's School of Music. [58] Between 1890 and 1933, more areas were added to the city, which had been administered by Lancashire County Council, including former villages such as Burnage, Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Didsbury, Fallowfield, Levenshulme, Longsight, and Withington. It began its first broadcast, but in 2015, That's Manchester took over to air on 31 May and launched the freeview channel 8 service slot, before moving to channel 7 in April 2016. It includes a Hilton hotel, a restaurant and apartments. Its fortune declined after the Second World War, owing to deindustrialisation, and the IRA bombing in 1996 led to extensive investment and regeneration. Since 2001, the population has grown by 87,900, or 20.8 per cent, making Manchester the third fastest-growing area in the 2011 census. The University of Manchester, Manchester Metropolitan University and Royal Northern College of Music. [196] The velodrome hosted the UCI Track Cycling World Championships for a record third time in 2008. There is a mix of high-density urban and suburban locations. [181], Manchester is a UNESCO City of Literature known for a "radical literary history". Manchester occupies a featureless plain made up of river gravels and the glacially transported debris known as drift. The 47-storey, 554-foot (169m) Beetham Tower was the tallest UK building outside of London and the highest residential accommodation in Europe when completed in 2006. There are three schools nearby: William Hulme's Grammar School, Withington Girls' School and Manchester High School for Girls. [88] In addition to Manchester itself, the LUZ includes the remainder of the county of Greater Manchester. The English region with the largest population increase was the East of England, which grew by around 8.3% or 488,000 more residents. In 2011, 80 per cent of public transport journeys in Greater Manchester were made by bus, amounting to 220million passenger journeys each year. This was an increase of 7,900, or 1.6 per cent, since the 2011 estimate. 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. 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. The Manchester Velodrome, built as a part of the bid for the 2000 games, has become a catalyst for British success in cycling. The population of England and Wales has increased by more than 3.5 million in the 10 years leading up to Census 2021. A reconstructed part of the Roman fort of Mamucium is open to the public in Castlefield. [226][238] Manchester is also covered by two internet television channels: Quays News and Manchester.tv. Population Estimates, July 1 2022, (V2022) . It has a population of 2.7 million people in the urban Trade, and feeding the growing population, required a large transport and distribution infrastructure: the canal system was extended, and Manchester became one end of the world's first intercity passenger railwaythe Liverpool and Manchester Railway. The metro area population of Manchester in 2020 was 2,730,000, a 0.74% increase from 2019. The metro area population of Manchester in 2019 was 2,710,000, a 0.74% increase from 2018. The urban center of the town is the By 1835, Manchester was the greatest industrial city on earth. The Rylands Library Papyrus P52, believed to be the earliest extant New Testament text, is on permanent display there. [206] The Cheshire campus permanently closed in 2019. Population Estimates, July 1 2021, (V2021) . The local authority areas displayed on the map change form and position to create a bar chart that orders selected areas of the North West by percentage change in total population. Old mills have been converted into apartments. [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. The generally accepted etymology of this name is that it comes from Brittonic *mamm- ("breast", in reference to a "breast-like hill"). The Alan Turing Memorial in Sackville Park commemorates his role as the father of modern computing. [47], Spurred by the investment after the 1996 bomb and aided by the XVII Commonwealth Games, the city centre has undergone extensive regeneration. There were 76,095 undergraduate and postgraduate students at Manchester Metropolitan University, the University of Manchester and Royal Northern College of Music in the 2011/2012 academic year. [60] Andy Burnham was elected as the first mayor of Greater Manchester in 2017. One such gathering ended with the Peterloo massacre of 16 August 1819. WebManchester is a town in Hartford County, Connecticut, United States. NA. [207] The University of Law, the largest provider of vocation legal training in Europe, has a campus in the city. 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. Manchester was thus the target of bombing by the Luftwaffe, and by late 1940 air raids were taking place against non-military targets. It is achieved by restricting inappropriate development within the designated areas and imposing stricter conditions on permitted building. Its main pop music venue is Manchester Arena, voted "International Venue of the Year" in 2007. [17][22] The library, which opened in 1653 and is still open to the public today, is the oldest free public reference library in the United Kingdom. They include Elizabeth Gaskell's novel Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life (1848),[184] and studies such as The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844 by Friedrich Engels, while living and working here. He was a diligent puritan, turning out ale houses and banning the celebration of Christmas; he died in 1656.[26]. 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