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Milton Keynes Borough
The Borough of Milton Keynes is one of the fastest growing urban areas in the country. Milton Keynes Council's estimate for April 2003 was 210,978 people, with 176,164 living in the 'new city' area and 34,814 people living outside.

If the planned growth of Milton Keynes is achieved, then by the year 2011 the population will have risen to 248,660 people living in the Borough. That's an average of ELEVEN extra people every day between 2001 and 2011.

MKWeb serves the community of the borough of Milton Keynes, that not only includes the City of Milton Keynes, but areas in North Bucks including Olney, Hanslope and Woburn Sands.

Highlights



  • Milton Keynes, designated as a new town on 23 January 1967, is the largest new town in England.

  • Milton Keynes is the fastest growing urban area in Britain with three decades of rapid economic growth and success.

  • Milton Keynes has a relatively young population profile with 46 per cent under 30
    compared to a national average of 38 per cent.

  • Eight million people live within an hour's drive of Central Milton Keynes and it is 50 miles from London, 80 from Birmingham and 50 from Oxford and Cambridge.

  • 50 per cent of local commuters travel less than 3 miles to work.

  • 31 million people shop at Milton Keynes Shopping Centre each year.

  • The Shopping Centre has become one of Europes largest with the opening of the new £180 million Midsummer Place extension in September 2000

  • A £30 million theatre and gallery opened in October 1999. Built with £20.1 million of National Lottery funding, the theatre can seat 1,400.

  • Milton Keynes is home to the UK's National Hockey Stadium. In August 2000, a £57 million sports and leisure complex, Xscape, opened containing one of Europe's longest indoor real snow ski slopes, a multiplex cinema, bowling alley and shops.

  • 1999 saw a £250 million development boom in the centre of Milton Keynes including sports, leisure and commercial developments.

  • 2005 saw the beginning of a whole new development program for the city including a 30,000 seater stadium and a World Trade Centre

Further details on the demographics of the population of Milton Keynes can be found on the MKWeb's Statistics page.

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