Portslade population

20,000people · latest estimate

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By James Burfield, SEO consultant, Bath · Page updated 18 September 2026 · GeoNames · World Gazetteer 2005

Portslade has a population of 20,000, making it the 4th largest place in Brighton and Hove. In 2005 the World Gazetteer recorded 20,000, a rise of 0.0% since.

20,000

in 2005

+0.0%

since 2005

of 4 in Brighton and Hove

The 2005 figure is from the World Gazetteer archive and may draw its boundary differently from the current source, so treat the change as indicative. Sources: method.

Year-by-year official estimates for the wider area: Brighton and Hove population trends, 2001–2024.

Portslade in context

4 km

east to Hove, the nearest larger town

428,051

people live within 10 km

#650

largest of 6,358 UK places

1,613

food businesses in Brighton and Hove

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 Portslade sits in postcode district BN41.

Council tax

The area Band D council tax for Brighton and Hove, the billing authority covering Portslade, is £2,581 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.

Common questions

What is the population of Portslade?

The populated place itself holds 20,000 residents. The wider Brighton and Hove council area recorded 283,870 in 2024. Each figure describes a different boundary and all are correct; the meanings table on this page says which is which, because a population without its boundary is not an answer.

Go deeper

Population since 2001

Brighton and Hove, year by year from ONS estimates

Postcode district BN41

Wards, constituencies and the deprivation profile

Nearby in Brighton and Hove

#	Place	Population
1	Brighton	283,870
2	Hove	75,174
3	Rottingdean	21,756

All 4 places in Brighton and Hove →