Borough of Torbay · England
Cockington population
10,000people · latest estimate
Cockington has a population of 10,000, making it the 4th largest place in Borough of Torbay.
Year-by-year official estimates for the wider area: Torbay population trends, 2001–2025.
Cockington in context
Distances are straight-line from the settlement's recorded coordinates. The 10 km figure sums the recorded places within that radius, so it describes how built-up the surroundings are rather than people per square kilometre.
The centre of Cockington sits in postcode district TQ2.
Council tax
The area Band D council tax for Torbay, the billing authority covering Cockington, is £2,470 for 2026–27.
From MHCLG's council tax statistics (Table 9): the area average including police, fire and parish precepts, so it is the council's figure rather than the town's, and your own band depends on your property's 1991 valuation.