North Yorkshire is England's largest county, covering an area of more than 800,000 hectares. It stretches from the North Sea in the East to beyond the Pennine watershed in the West and from the Tees in the North to the Yorkshire Ouse and beyond in the South.
North Yorkshire has an estimated 597,700 residents. The principal urban areas are Harrogate (population 75,500) and Scarborough (population 49,670). Elsewhere it is a sparsely populated county with only three other towns of over 15,000 people.
Reports and information on population statistics gathered by North Yorkshire County Council and other sources are available here.
With regard child protection, a key measure of safeguarding activity in any area is of the number of children who have Child Protection Plans at any one time. At the end of March 2010, there were 258 children with plans (21.3 per 10K of the population). This compares with 227 and 130 at the end of March 2009 and 2008 respectively.
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