• City area 7,461 hectares
• Boundary measures 54.4 km
• Population 1999 – 282,900
• Greater Nottingham population – 640,000 (396,000 people of working age)
• Higher than average number of 10-29 year olds
  
  

• Two universities – including the most over-subscribed in the country, 1 university science park, 1 university business park and 1 biomedical centre under development.
• Four colleges of further education, 2 sixth form colleges
• More than 48,000 students at the two universities

• Record annual take-up in 2001
• 270,000 sq ft of office space under construction

• 7th highest GDP per capita in the UK
• Over 5,000 VAT registered businesses
• 50 national and regional headquarters in the City
• Economy worth - £4,417 m (£600m regeneration schemes include £60m NET)

• 32 major parks
• 152 playgrounds with some parkland attached
• 205 Council-managed sports pitches
• 2994 acres of public open space

Three premium heritage sites:

• Nottingham Castle
• Wollaton Hall
• Newstead Abbey, former home of poet Lord Byron
  

Listed buildings – 800

• 175,700 (travel-to-work area - 311,400)
• Unemployed – 9,492 (t-t-w area – 16,000)

• Fastest rate of house-building for 15 years
• 1,800 new dwellings proposed for city centre

• 2,715 Council-run (plus 6,388);
• prices range from 80p per hour to £1

• 5th largest shopping population in the country
• Over 200 retailers looking to locate to City
  

• Theatre Royal
• Royal Centre
• Playhouse.
• Broadway is first regional branch of NFT.
• Lace Market and Co-op Arts Theatre are amateur venues.

Four including Warner Village in new £50m Cornerhouse city centre leisure development.

• Rock City
• Two universities
• 8,000-seater Ice Arena
• Nottingham recently voted Best Student Night Out
  

• 400 clubs, pubs, café bars and restaurants with capacity for 110,000 customers.
• 10,000 employed in the industry and employment growing fast
  

• New £40m National Ice Centre
• Trent Bridge (test match) Cricket Ground
• Nottingham (international) Tennis Centre
• Nottingham Forest (City Ground)
• Notts County (Meadow Lane)
• Holme Pierrepoint National Water Sports Centre.

More available sports facilities per head of population than any other European city.

• Nottingham Castle Museum and Art Gallery
• Museum of Costumes and Textiles
• Brew House Yard Museum of Nottingham Life
• Industrial Museum
• Natural History Museum
  

• 11 million visitors a year.
  Tourism brings in £139m

City attractions include caves, Galleries of Justice, Tales of Robin Hood, Nottingham Castle.

Goose Fair (first week in October on Forest Recreation Ground) is the largest travelling fair in Europe.

• 7 new hotels in 4 years
  
  

• 10 are toucans
• 7 cycle crossings
• 159 pelicans
• 1 puffin
• 1 wigwam
  
  

• Victoria Centre flats – 250ft
• Nottingham Castle – 213ft
• The Council House - 200ft
• The Trent Building – 170ft
• Big Ben Ride, (Goose Fair) – 140ft
  

• Biggest current development is the £200 million tram system