West Yorkshire Urban Area

West Yorkshire Urban Area
West Yorkshire Urban Area map
Area	487.8 km2 (188.3 sq mi)
Population	1,777,934
– density	3,645/km2 (9,440/sq mi)
OS grid reference	SE455215
Metropolitan county	West Yorkshire
Region	Yorkshire and the Humber
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Police	West Yorkshire
Fire	West Yorkshire
Ambulance	Yorkshire
EU Parliament	Yorkshire and the Humber
List of places UK England Yorkshire

The West Yorkshire Urban Area is a term used by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) to refer to a conurbation in West Yorkshire, England, based on the cities of Leeds, Bradford and Wakefield, and the large towns of Huddersfield and Halifax. However, it excludes towns such as Castleford, Pontefract and Wetherby which though part of the county of West Yorkshire are considered independently. There are substantial areas of agricultural land within the designated area - more than in any other official urban area in England - many of the towns and cities are only just connected with one another by narrow outlying strips of development.

Urban Subdivisions

The ONS gives the conurbation a population of 1,777,934 (2011 census), which makes it the fourth-most populous in the UK. The ONS breaks the area down into the following sub-divisions:

• Baildon
• Batley
• Bingley
• Bradford
• Brighouse
• Burley in Wharfedale
• Cleckheaton
• Dewsbury
• Guiseley
• Halifax
• Haworth
• Heckmondwike
• Holmfirth
• Horbury
• Horsforth
• Huddersfield
• Keighley
• Leeds
• Liversedge
• Menston
• Middlestown
• Mirfield
• Morley
• Netherton
• Ossett
• Otley
• Pudsey
• Robin Hood
• Rothwell
• Scholes
• Shipley
• Sowerby Bridge
• Thornton
• Wakefield
• Walton
• Yeadon

Notes:The ares of Lofthouse, Stanley, Honley, Queensbury and Shelf were subdivisions in the 2001 census