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Dunswell population

1,682people · latest estimate

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

Dunswell has a population of 1,682, making it the 31st largest place in East Riding of Yorkshire.

The other populations of Dunswell

Depending on where you draw the boundary, Dunswell has between 565 and 1,682 residents. Both are correct.

What you meanPopulationSource
The place itself
The populated settlement, roughly the built-up core.
1,682 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.
565 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: East Riding of Yorkshire population trends, 2001–2024.

Dunswell in context

6 km
north-west to Beverley, the nearest larger town
354,684
people live within 10 km
#3,207
largest of 6,358 UK places
1,323
food businesses in East Riding of Yorkshire
Dunswell 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 Dunswell sits in postcode district HU6.

Food and drink on the high street

Registered premisesCount
Restaurants and cafés (35.4 per 10,000 residents)2
Pubs, bars and nightclubs (17.7 per 10,000 residents)1

Counts are registered food premises in the Dunswell built-up area (565 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 →

Schools

Open establishmentsSchoolsPlacesPupilsFilled
Primary schools11058984.8%

The 2021 census counted 13 children aged 5 to 9 in the town: one state primary school for every 13 of them.

Open schools registered in the Dunswell 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+)100.0%
Superfast (30 Mbit/s+)100.0%

Share of the 376 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
East Riding of Yorkshire, year by year from ONS estimates
Postcode district HU6
Wards, constituencies and the deprivation profile

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#PlacePopulation
1Wilberfoss1,866
2Walkington1,769
3Tickton1,731
4Newport1,580
5Rawcliffe1,542
6Patrington1,501

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