Population Statistics
Rottingdean
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Rottingdean population

21,756people · latest estimate

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

Rottingdean has a population of 21,756, making it the 3rd largest place in Brighton and Hove. In 2005 the World Gazetteer recorded 21,756, a rise of 0.0% since.

21,756
in 2005
+0.0%
since 2005
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.

Rottingdean in context

6 km
west to Brighton, the nearest larger town
430,888
people live within 10 km
#592
largest of 6,358 UK places
1,613
food businesses in Brighton and Hove
Rottingdean in the UK

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 Rottingdean sits in postcode district BN2.

Council tax

The area Band D council tax for Brighton and Hove, the billing authority covering Rottingdean, 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 Rottingdean?
The populated place itself holds 21,756 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 BN2
Wards, constituencies and the deprivation profile

Nearby in Brighton and Hove

#PlacePopulation
1Brighton283,870
2Hove75,174
3Portslade20,000

All 4 places in Brighton and Hove →