Introduction
This guidance provides help for downloading the four urban area products that are available on the website. These are:

1. The Key Statistics for urban areas in England and Wales printed volume, in pdf format
2. The Key Statistics for urban areas in England and Wales tables, in Excel format
3. The Key Statistics for urban areas: summary results for local authorities tables, in Excel format
4. The Key Statistics for urban areas: results by population size of urban area tables, in Excel format

A printer friendly version of this guidance is available HERE.

The four products can be downloaded HERE. On this first page, the text in the top section introduces the products available, and the bottom section labelled

Download/View entire documents for free here (Left click to View or right click to Download)

contains links to the actual products. Specific help on downloading each is listed below.

1. The Key Statistics for urban areas in England and Wales printed report
The report contains figures for all urban areas with populations of 20,000 people or greater and is available for download as a series of 10 pdf files. The first 10 links, for example

Key Statistics for urban areas in England and Wales part 1
Key Statistics for urban areas in England and Wales part 2
Key Statistics for urban areas in England and Wales part 3 etc

contain sections of the volume as described below:

Part 1	Foreword, Introduction, List of tables, Tables KS01 - KS08
Part 2	Tables KS09a - KS16
Part 3	Tables KS17 - KS25, Notes to tables,
Part 4	Urban area maps 1 and 2
Part 5	Urban area maps 3 and 4
Part 6	Urban area maps 5 and 6
Part 7	Urban area maps 7 and 8
Part 8	Urban area maps 9 and 10
Part 9	Urban area maps 11 and 12
Part 10	Urban area map index, Glossary , Appendices

2. The Key Statistics for urban areas in England and Wales Excel datasets
This series of Excel files contains all of the (33) Key Statistics tables included on the CD that accompanies the printed report detailed above. They contain figures for all urban areas with populations of 1,500 people or greater. In addition, the version of table KS01 provided contains additional figures on area and density that were not included on the CD.

To access these files, click on the link labelled


Key Statistics for urban areas in England and Wales (Datasets - xls)


This will open a page containing the following section





Click on Datasets to view a drop down menu with an expanded list of the tables available, as below.





Select one of the tables in the list and click the View button to the right.

The next page provides brief details of the table selected. Choose

View dataset

This will display a page with the options

View or Download Excel version

Left click this link to view the Excel file selected in your browser, or right click the link and select Save Target As... to download the file to your PC.

Finding urban areas in each file
Within each file urban areas are arranged alphabetically within five regions: the North; the Midlands; the South East; the South West; and Wales. Urban sub-divisions are listed alphabetically under each parent urban area.

Urban areas and urban sub-divisions are defined and described in the introduction section of the printed report as described above.

An index listing all urban areas and sub-divisions included in the tables is also included in the pdfs of the printed report, and can be used to determine if an area of interest is included.

If you know the name of an area for which you wish to view figures, while viewing one of the Excel files (in Windows) use CONTROL+F to open the find box, type the area name into the 'Find what' field, and click 'Find next' to jump to the appropriate row. Repeat this process to view figures for that area in each Excel file.

3. The Key Statistics for urban areas: summary results for local authorities Excel datasets
This series of Excel files contains 32 Key Statistics tables containing aggregates of the urban and remaining parts of each local authority, county, Unitary Authority, and Government Office Region in England and Wales.

To access these files, click on the link labelled


Key Statistics for urban areas: summary results for local authorities (Datasets - xls)


and follow the same instructions set out for 2 above to access the Excel files.

4. The Key Statistics for urban areas: results by population size of urban area Excel datasets
This series of Excel files contains 32 Key Statistics tables containing aggregates of urban areas in England and Wales grouped by the population size of the areas.

To access these files, click on the link labelled


Key Statistics for urban areas: results by population size of urban area (Datasets - xls)


and follow the same instructions set out for 2 above to access the Excel files.

This page last revised: 01 November 2005