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Wadworth population

1,137people · latest estimate

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

Wadworth has a population of 1,137, making it the 19th largest place in Doncaster.

#19
of 24 in Doncaster

The other populations of Wadworth

The same name covers more than one area, and each has its own figure.

What you meanPopulationSource
The place itself
The populated settlement, roughly the built-up core.
1,137 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.
1,155 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: Doncaster population trends, 2001–2024.

Wadworth in context

5 km
south-east to Tickhill, the nearest larger town
217,139
people live within 10 km
#3,787
largest of 6,358 UK places
1,404
food businesses in Doncaster
Wadworth 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 Wadworth sits in postcode district DN11.

Food and drink on the high street

Registered premisesCount
Restaurants and cafés (17.3 per 10,000 residents)2
Takeaways and sandwich shops (8.7 per 10,000 residents)1
Pubs, bars and nightclubs (8.7 per 10,000 residents)1

Counts are registered food premises in the Wadworth built-up area (1,155 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) (43.3 per 10,000 residents)5
Community centres (8.7 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.

Crime, per 1,000 residents

Category (police-recorded, 12 months)Rate
Violence and sexual offences45.0
Anti-social behaviour39.0
Criminal damage and arson19.0
Vehicle crime21.6
Burglary6.1
Other theft19.0
Robbery0.9
All recorded offences187.9

The all-offences line is a count of records, not a safety score: it weighs every category equally, which is exactly why we publish the categories. We deliberately do not combine them into a single index.

Figures are police-recorded crime (August 2025 to July 2026) located to this built-up area, per 1,000 residents at the 2021 census. Three cautions, each of which changes how a rate should be read: recorded crime is not crime experienced, because reporting rates differ by category and by place; the denominator counts residents, so town centres and visitor towns run high per resident precisely because many people there are not residents; and a high figure can reflect more reporting as easily as more crime. Percentiles compare towns of 10,000+ residents. Greater Manchester and Gloucestershire constabularies do not publish, so their towns show a note instead of a partial figure. Compare towns →

Schools

Open establishmentsSchoolsPlacesPupilsFilled
Primary schools121014569.0%

The 2021 census counted 40 children aged 5 to 9 in the town: one state primary school for every 40 of them.

Open schools registered in the Wadworth built-up area, from the Department for Education's Get Information about Schools register, extracted 24 August 2026. Each school counts once: an independent special school appears under special schools, and the phase rows are state schools. Places are reported capacity and pupils each school's latest census return, summed only over schools reporting both, and shown only where at least 9 in 10 of a phase's schools do; state primaries across measured towns run at 89.2% of capacity, secondaries 91.3%. The children-per-school figure pairs a 2021 census count with today's register, so growth or decline since the census is not in it. No inspection grades are shown because Ofsted stopped issuing single-word overall judgements in 2024 and the register no longer carries them; current inspection reports are on Ofsted's own site. England only: the register lists Welsh schools without phase detail.

Broadband

Availability% of homes
Gigabit-capable (1,000 Mbit/s+)79.3%
Superfast (30 Mbit/s+)99.3%
Unable to get 10 Mbit/s download1 home (0.2%)

Share of the 546 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
Doncaster, year by year from ONS estimates
Postcode district DN11
Wards, constituencies and the deprivation profile

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#PlacePopulation
1Campsall1,940
2Barnburgh1,924
3Auckley1,434
4Braithwell804
5Moss389
6Fishlake370

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