Population Statistics
Horsforth
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Horsforth population

19,350people · latest estimate

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

Horsforth has a population of 19,350, making it the 7th largest place in City and Borough of Leeds. The World Gazetteer published 19,350 for Horsforth in 2005 and the current source still carries that same figure, so there is no measured change to report rather than no change having happened.

19,350
in 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: Leeds population trends, 2001–2025.

Horsforth in context

4 km
north-west to Yeadon, the nearest larger town
1,107,603
people live within 10 km
#677
largest of 6,358 UK places
3,319
food businesses in Leeds
Horsforth 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 Horsforth sits in postcode district LS18.

Council tax

The area Band D council tax for Leeds, the billing authority covering Horsforth, is £2,284 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 Horsforth?
The populated place itself holds 19,350 residents. The wider Leeds council area recorded 840,550 in 2025. 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
Leeds, year by year from ONS estimates
Postcode district LS18
Wards, constituencies and the deprivation profile

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#PlacePopulation
1Pudsey25,393
2Lofthouse23,458
3Guiseley21,000
4Chapel Allerton18,206
5Kippax15,965
6Garforth14,838

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