The Liverpool Urban Area is a name given by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) to the urban area of Liverpool and the built-up areas immediately adjacent to it. They give it a population of 816,216 according to the 2001 census, down 2.6% from the 1991 figure of 837,998. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) is the government executive agency charged with the collection and publication of statistics related to the economy, population and society of the United Kingdom at national and local levels. ... An urban area is a term used to define an area where there is an increased density of human-created structures in comparison to the areas surrounding it. ... Liverpool waterfront by night, as seen from the Wirral. ...

The ONS include in the Liverpool Urban Area, the subcomponents of

• Bootle
• Crosby
• Haydock
• Huyton-with-Roby
• Litherland
• Liverpool
• Prescot
• St. Helens

This covers more than just the city of Liverpool itself (including parts of Sefton, St Helens and Knowsley), but less than the county of Merseyside, and even less than in Greater Merseyside. In particular, the urban area facing Liverpool on the Wirral peninsula is considered to be the Birkenhead Urban Area. The decision by the ONS not to include the Wirral in the Liverpool Urban Area was controversial. Together the two urban areas have a population of 1,157,673. Location within the British Isles Bootle cheesy beanscentre is situated approximately 4 miles north of Liverpool city centre. ... Crosby is a suburban area and Parliamentary Constituency of Sefton, Merseyside, North West England. ... Haydock is a village in St Helens, Merseyside, England. ... Litherland is a district in Sefton, Merseyside, North West England. ... Liverpool waterfront by night, as seen from the Wirral. ... Location within the British Isles Prescot, originally meaning PriestsCot. ... St Helens is a town in Merseyside in North West England. ... Note: See Sefton, Australia for Sefton, Sydney, Australia. ... St Helens is a metropolitan borough in Merseyside, North West England. ... Knowsley is a metropolitan borough in Merseyside, England. ... Merseyside is a metropolitan county, located in the North West of England. ... Greater Merseyside is an informal term for a sub-region of North West England including Merseyside, Halton, West Lancashire, and Ellesmere Port and Neston. ... The Wirral is a peninsula in North West England bounded by the River Dee to the west and the River Mersey to the east. ...