This is a list of two-tier counties of England by population.
It includes those non-metropolitan counties (also known as shire counties) with a two-tier county council structure and does not include metropolitan counties or unitary authorities.
Where a unitary authority has separated from a shire county the population of the unitary authority is counted elsewhere. For example, the population of Blackpool is not included in Lancashire in this table.
The figures are mid-year estimates for mid-2019 est. from the Office for National Statistics.[1][2]
Densities are calculated from population and area values.
| County | Population | Area (in km²) |
Density (people/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kent | 1,578,519 | 3,544 | 445 |
| Essex | 1,506,345 | 3,458 | 436 |
| Hampshire | 1,406,199 | 3,678 | 382 |
| Lancashire | 1,236,035 | 2,894 | 427 |
| Surrey | 1,205,616 | 1,663 | 725 |
| Hertfordshire | 1,200,620 | 1,643 | 731 |
| Norfolk | 918,369 | 5,384 | 171 |
| Staffordshire | 877,856 | 2,620 | 335 |
| West Sussex | 885,055 | 1,991 | 445 |
| Nottinghamshire | 826,257 | 2,085 | 396 |
| Derbyshire | 796,847 | 2,547 | 313 |
| Devon | 814,440 | 6,564 | 124 |
| Suffolk | 763,375 | 3,800 | 201 |
| Lincolnshire | 769,474 | 5,937 | 130 |
| Leicestershire | 712,572 | 2,083 | 342 |
| Oxfordshire | 726,530 | 2,605 | 279 |
| Cambridgeshire | 680,407 | 3,046 | 223 |
| Gloucestershire | 646,627 | 2,653 | 244 |
| Worcestershire | 604,947 | 1,741 | 348 |
| Warwickshire | 599,153 | 1,975 | 303 |
| East Sussex | 546,924 | 1,709 | 320 |