title: Stoke-on-Trent built-up area
text: # Stoke-on-Trent built-up area
  
  The Stoke-on-Trent Built-up Area or The Potteries Urban Area or colloquially, simply "The Potteries" is a conurbation in North Staffordshire in the West Midlands region of England.
  
  It includes the City of Stoke-on-Trent, and parts of the boroughs of Newcastle-under-Lyme and Staffordshire Moorlands.
  
  The area had a population of 384,000 in 2019, a small increase from the 2001 census figure of 362,403 with Stoke-on-Trent making up over 70% of this population. It is sometimes called The Potteries Urban Area due to the area's fame for pottery manufacture ever since the industrial revolution.
  
  | Subdivision | Population (2011 census) |
  | - | - |
  | Stoke-on-Trent | 270,726 |
  | Newcastle-under-Lyme | 75,082 |
  | Kidsgrove | 26,293 |
  