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Shiptonthorpe population

503people · latest estimate

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

Shiptonthorpe has a population of 503, making it the 67th largest place in East Riding of Yorkshire.

The other populations of Shiptonthorpe

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.
503 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.
485 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.

Shiptonthorpe in context

3 km
south-east to Market Weighton, the nearest larger town
17,672
people live within 10 km
#5,285
largest of 6,358 UK places
1,323
food businesses in East Riding of Yorkshire
Shiptonthorpe 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 Shiptonthorpe sits in postcode district YO43.

Food and drink on the high street

Registered premisesCount
Restaurants and cafés (41.2 per 10,000 residents)2

Counts are registered food premises in the Shiptonthorpe built-up area (485 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 →

Broadband

Availability% of homes
Gigabit-capable (1,000 Mbit/s+)7.0%
Superfast (30 Mbit/s+)95.8%
Unable to get 10 Mbit/s download2 homes (0.9%)

Share of the 215 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 YO43
Wards, constituencies and the deprivation profile

Nearby in East Riding of Yorkshire

#PlacePopulation
1Seaton Ross565
2Hutton560
3Bishop Wilton554
4Withernwick453
5North Burton430
6Rudston409

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