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Blacon
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Blacon population

13,495people · latest estimate

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Blacon has a population of 13,495, making it the 6th largest place in Cheshire West and Chester.

Year-by-year official estimates for the wider area: Cheshire West and Chester population trends, 2001–2024.

Blacon in context

3 km
south-east to Chester, the nearest larger town
243,587
people live within 10 km
#980
largest of 6,358 UK places
1,247
food businesses in Cheshire West and Chester
Blacon 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 Blacon sits in postcode district CH1.

Council tax

The area Band D council tax for Cheshire West and Chester, the billing authority covering Blacon, is £2,517 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 Blacon?
The populated place itself holds 13,495 residents. The wider Cheshire West and Chester council area recorded 371,652 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
Cheshire West and Chester, year by year from ONS estimates
Postcode district CH1
Wards, constituencies and the deprivation profile

Nearby in Cheshire West and Chester

#PlacePopulation
1Northwich47,421
2Winsford30,259
3Neston15,064
4Frodsham9,032
5Weaverham6,087
6Helsby5,166

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