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Rastrick population

11,351people · latest estimate

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Rastrick has a population of 11,351, making it the 5th largest place in Calderdale.

#5
of 16 in Calderdale

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

Rastrick in context

1 km
north to Brighouse, the nearest larger town
407,966
people live within 10 km
#1,135
largest of 6,358 UK places
1,006
food businesses in Calderdale
Rastrick 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 Rastrick sits in postcode district HD6.

Council tax

The area Band D council tax for Calderdale, the billing authority covering Rastrick, is £2,420 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 Rastrick?
The populated place itself holds 11,351 residents. The wider Calderdale council area recorded 210,929 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
Calderdale, year by year from ONS estimates
Postcode district HD6
Wards, constituencies and the deprivation profile

Nearby in Calderdale

#PlacePopulation
1Brighouse32,872
2Elland15,625
3Todmorden11,690
4Sowerby Bridge9,948
5Ripponden4,665
6Hebden Bridge4,235

All 16 places in Calderdale →