Portscatho has a population of 1,500, making it the 46th largest place in Cornwall.
#46
of 99 in Cornwall
The other populations of Portscatho
Depending on where you draw the boundary, Portscatho has between 590 and 1,500 residents. Both are correct.
| What you mean | Population | Source |
|---|---|---|
| The place itself The populated settlement, roughly the built-up core. |
1,500 | 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. |
590 | 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.
Portscatho in context
7 km
west to Falmouth, the nearest larger town
43,914
people live within 10 km
#3,383
largest of 6,358 UK places
2,666
food businesses in Cornwall
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 Portscatho sits in postcode district TR2.
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Population since 2001
Cornwall, year by year from ONS estimates
Postcode district TR2
Wards, constituencies and the deprivation profile
Nearby in Cornwall
| # | Place | Population |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pensilva | 1,663 |
| 2 | Delabole | 1,647 |
| 3 | Mount Hawke | 1,511 |
| 4 | Stithians | 1,463 |
| 5 | Polzeath | 1,449 |
| 6 | Mylor Bridge | 1,443 |