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Breage population

471people · latest estimate

By James Burfield, SEO consultant, Bath · Page updated · GeoNames · FSA register

Breage has a population of 471, making it the 89th largest place in Cornwall.

#89
of 99 in Cornwall

The other populations of Breage

Depending on where you draw the boundary, Breage has between 471 and 620 residents. Both are correct.

What you meanPopulationSource
The place itself
The populated settlement, roughly the built-up core.
471 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.
620 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: Cornwall population trends, 2001–2024.

Breage in context

3 km
south-east to Porthleven, the nearest larger town
16,266
people live within 10 km
#5,396
largest of 6,358 UK places
2,666
food businesses in Cornwall
Breage 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 Breage sits in postcode district TR13.

Food and drink on the high street

Registered premisesCount
Pubs, bars and nightclubs (16.1 per 10,000 residents)1

Counts are registered food premises in the Breage built-up area (620 residents at the 2021 census), from the FSA food hygiene register, extracted 17 August 2026. The boundary is drawn from where the buildings are, so these figures cover the town itself rather than the wider council area, and no total is shown because the register also lists premises nobody would call a venue: school kitchens, care homes, warehouses. Compare towns →

Shops and services

PremisesCount
Shops (all retail) (16.1 per 10,000 residents)1

Shops, cafés, salons, banks, post offices and arcades are rateable premises by use on the VOA 2023 rating list — the shops figure is all general retail, charity shops included. Gambling premises come from the Gambling Commission's licensing register, which lists 6,251 betting shops nationally against the rating list's 3,838: many betting shops are rated as ordinary shops, so the licensing register is the truer count and the one used here. Categories the rating list counts badly are deliberately absent rather than wrong: petrol stations disappear into supermarket ratings, vets and museums run far under their professional registers, and pools and nurseries mostly rate inside other premises. Same built-up-area boundary as the download table on this page.

Broadband

Availability% of homes
Gigabit-capable (1,000 Mbit/s+)89.9%
Superfast (30 Mbit/s+)89.9%
Unable to get 10 Mbit/s download11 homes (4.3%)

Share of the 257 residential premises in this built-up area that the fixed network can serve at each speed, from Ofcom's Connected Nations coverage data (network state July 2025). Availability is what the line to a home can deliver if ordered, not what households actually subscribe to, and a full-fibre street where everyone bought the cheapest package shows 100% here. Percentile compares towns of 10,000+ residents. Compare towns →

Go deeper

Population since 2001
Cornwall, year by year from ONS estimates
Postcode district TR13
Wards, constituencies and the deprivation profile

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