Manchester Hookups: Manchester Women Want to Meet

Hook up in Manchester: a big city, and a young one

Census figures tell you a lot about Manchester. More than four in ten people in the city had never married, and the population is younger than England's as a whole: over nine in ten residents are under 65, against about eight in ten nationally.

It's big as well. The city itself has around 589,000 people, and 2.87 million live in the built-up area it shares with Salford and the towns around them, all in a bowl of land with the Pennines rising to the north and east and the Cheshire Plain to the south. Since 1991 the city has grown by more than a third, faster than any other major city in England.

The world's first industrialised city lost its cotton exchange, its port and 150,000 manufacturing jobs between the 1960s and the 1980s, then rebuilt itself: the Metrolink, the Bridgewater concert hall and the Manchester Arena first, then a wave of investment after the 1996 bombing, in time to host the Commonwealth Games in 2002. Put that together and a hookup in Manchester has a lot going for it: a huge pool of people, a young one, and plenty of reasons to be out.