Cambridgeshire · England
Swaffham Bulbeck population
708people · latest estimate
Swaffham Bulbeck has a population of 708, making it the 89th largest place in Cambridgeshire.
#89
of 137 in Cambridgeshire
The other populations of Swaffham Bulbeck
Depending on where you draw the boundary, Swaffham Bulbeck has between 260 and 708 residents. Both are correct.
| What you mean | Population | Source |
|---|---|---|
| The place itself The populated settlement, roughly the built-up core. |
708 | GeoNames |
| The built-up area Continuous development, where buildings sit less than 200m apart. Drawn from where the buildings are, not where the council boundary is. |
260 | ONS Census 2021 (2021) |
Why these differ: which population figure is right? · compare with another place
Year-by-year official estimates for the wider area: East Cambridgeshire population trends, 2001–2025.
Swaffham Bulbeck in context
2 km
south-west to Bottisham, the nearest larger town
45,331
people live within 10 km
#4,619
largest of 6,358 UK places
238
food businesses in East Cambridgeshire
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 Swaffham Bulbeck sits in postcode district CB25.
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Population since 2001
East Cambridgeshire, year by year from ONS estimates
Postcode district CB25
Wards, constituencies and the deprivation profile
Nearby in Cambridgeshire
| # | Place | Population |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ashley | 749 |
| 2 | Great Stukeley | 720 |
| 3 | Ickleton | 709 |
| 4 | Stetchworth | 704 |
| 5 | Lode | 704 |
| 6 | Wicken | 698 |