| Towns over 50,000 population | AA 1991 | |
| 1 | London (Greater) | 7,677,719 |
| 2 | Birmingham | 1,024,118 |
| 3 | Glasgow | 697,000 |
| 4 | Sheffield | 528,300 |
| 5 | Liverpool | 457,500 |
| 6 | Leeds | 454,690 |
| 7 | Manchester | 450,100 |
| 8 | Edinburgh | 438,721 |
| 9 | Bristol | 372,000 |
| 10 | Enfield | 361,500 |
| 11 | Croydon | 318,200 |
| 12 | Coventry | 304,000 |
| 13 | Bradford | 295,048 |
| 14 | Bromley | 293,906 |
| 15 | Stockport | 292,300 |
| 16 | Doncaster | 290,061 |
| 17 | Swansea | 282,605 |
| 18 | Leicester | 280,000 |
| 19 | Nottingham | 279,700 |
| 20 | Cardiff | 276,500 |
| 21 | Wolverhampton | 247,200 |
| 22 | Stoke on Trent | 247,000 |
| 23 | Hull | 245,100 |
| 24 | Plymouth | 242,560 |
| 25 | Derby | 220,681 |
| 26 | Bexley | 220,100 |
| 27 | Aberdeen | 211,080 |
| 28 | Newcastle upon Tyne | 203,591 |
| 29 | Southampton | 196,467 |
| 30 | Warrington | 190,000 |
| 31 | Sunderland | 190,000 |
| 32 | Harrow | 189,000 |
| 33 | Dudley | 187,367 |
| 34 | St. Helens | 186,455 |
| 35 | Northampton | 186,000 |
| 36 | Milton Keynes | 184,630 |
| 37 | Portsmouth | 181,079 |
| 38 | Walsall | 178,852 |
| 39 | Dundee | 174,255 |
| 40 | Norwich | 173,286 |
| 41 | Swindon | 173,000 |
| 42 | Luton | 169,000 |
| 43 | Sutton | 167,100 |
| 44 | Southend on Sea | 165,400 |
| 45 | West Bromwich | 154,531 |
| 46 | Bournemouth | 154,000 |
| 47 | Smethwick | 153,461 |
| 48 | Colchester | 151,900 |
| 49 | Bolton | 143,921 |
| 50 | Blackpool | 143,800 |
| 51 | Middlesbrough | 143,000 |
| 52 | Brighton | 142,300 |
| 53 | Maidstone | 137,600 |
| 54 | Peterborough | 136,360 |
| 55 | Poole | 135,000 |
| 56 | Reading | 131,000 |
| 57 | Preston | 129,400 |
| 58 | Huddersfield | 123,168 |
| 59 | Chester | 122,000 |
| 60 | Ipswich | 119,630 |
| 61 | Telford | 119,000 |
| 62 | Nuneaton | 118,000 |
| 63 | Oxford | 115,800 |
| 64 | Blackburn | 105,000 |
| 65 | Newport, Gwent | 104,000 |
| 66 | Sutton Coldfield | 103,097 |
| 67 | Basildon | 103,090 |
| 68 | Exeter | 103,000 |
| 69 | Cambridge | 101,200 |
| 70 | Mansfield | 100,800 |
| 71 | Slough | 100,187 |
| 72 | Worthing | 99,970 |
| 73 | York | 99,910 |
| 74 | Birkenhead | 99,529 |
| 75 | Salford | 98,343 |
| 76 | Darlington | 98,000 |
| 77 | Gillingham | 97,000 |
| 78 | Gloucester | 97,000 |
| 79 | Paisley | 95,000 |
| 80 | Solihull | 94,613 |
| 81 | Southport | 93,500 |
| 82 | Oldham | 93,400 |
| 83 | Rochdale | 92,700 |
| 84 | Chelmsford | 92,479 |
| 85 | Hartlepool | 92,133 |
| 86 | Gateshead | 91,893 |
| 87 | Hove | 91,100 |
| 88 | Burnley | 90,900 |
| 89 | Cheltenham | 90,500 |
| 90 | Grimsby | 90,200 |
| 91 | Wigan | 88,725 |
| 92 | Crawley | 87,200 |
| 93 | Stockton on Tees | 85,100 |
| 94 | Richmond upon Thames | 85,000 |
| 95 | Woking | 85,000 |
| 96 | Hemel Hempstead | 85,000 |
| 97 | Halifax | 84,538 |
| 98 | Basingstoke | 84,300 |
| 99 | Bootle | 84,200 |
| 100 | Eastbourne | 82,773 |
| 101 | Hastings | 81,900 |
| 102 | East Kilbride | 81,700 |
| 103 | Lincoln | 80,400 |
| 104 | Rotherham | 80,160 |
| 105 | Dartford | 80,000 |
| 106 | Worcester | 80,000 |
| 107 | Bath | 79,965 |
| 108 | Redditch | 79,724 |
| 109 | Dagenham | 79,007 |
| 110 | Barnsley | 77,616 |
| 111 | Stevenage | 77,440 |
| 112 | Ebbw Vale | 77,280 |
| 113 | St. Albans | 77,187 |
| 114 | Bedford | 77,014 |
| 115 | Gosport | 76,500 |
| 116 | Watford | 76,000 |
| 117 | Hounslow | 76,000 |
| 118 | Wakefield | 75,838 |
| 119 | South Shields | 75,000 |
| 120 | Gravesend | 74,300 |
| 121 | Chesterfield | 73,540 |
| 122 | Newcastle under Lyme | 73,526 |
| 123 | Carlisle | 73,233 |
| 124 | Harlow | 71,000 |
| 125 | Brentwood | 69,795 |
| 126 | Harrogate | 69,315 |
| 127 | Tamworth | 69,000 |
| 128 | Greenford | 68,657 |
| 129 | Epsom | 68,400 |
| 130 | Weston Super Mare | 66,628 |
| 131 | Southall | 66,488 |
| 132 | Runcorn | 64,950 |
| 133 | Shrewsbury | 63,942 |
| 134 | Stafford | 62,680 |
| 135 | Wallasey | 62,531 |
| 136 | Bebington | 62,236 |
| 137 | Guildford | 61,600 |
| 138 | High Wycombe | 61,514 |
| 139 | Ellesmere Port | 61,000 |
| 140 | Washington | 60,500 |
| 141 | Maidenhead | 60,461 |
| 142 | Barrow in Furness | 60,400 |
| 143 | Rugby | 59,723 |
| 144 | Scunthorpe | 59,600 |
| 145 | Burton on Trent | 59,310 |
| 146 | Accrington | 59,141 |
| 147 | Lowestoft | 59,000 |
| 148 | Torquay | 58,732 |
| 149 | Huyton | 58,620 |
| 150 | Margate | 57,350 |
| 151 | Merthyr Tydfil | 57,000 |
| 152 | Ayr | 56,000 |
| 153 | Widnes | 55,510 |
| 154 | Taunton | 55,300 |
| 155 | Ashford | 55,000 |
| 156 | Corby | 55,000 |
| 157 | Stourbridge | 55,000 |
| 158 | Halesowen | 55,000 |
| 159 | Royal Leamington Spa | 54,690 |
| 160 | Cannock | 54,583 |
| 161 | Aldershot | 54,358 |
| 162 | Bury | 54,210 |
| 163 | Kidderminster | 53,687 |
| 164 | Sale | 53,670 |
| 165 | Bognor Regis | 53,175 |
| 166 | Scarborough | 53,085 |
| 167 | Staines | 52,815 |
| 168 | Dunfermline | 52,057 |
| 169 | Greenock | 52,000 |
| 170 | Loughborough | 51,870 |
| 171 | Middleton | 51,800 |
| 172 | Hamilton | 51,689 |
| 173 | Bracknell | 51,339 |
| 174 | Benfleet | 50,926 |
| 175 | Rowley Regis | 50,450 |
| 176 | Great Yarmouth | 50,363 |
| 177 | Aylesbury | 50,233 |
| 178 | Cumbernauld | 50,100 |
| 179 | Barnet | 50,000 |
| 180 | Kingston upon Thames * | 22,808 |