
Essex · England
Pitsea population
25,000people · latest estimate
Pitsea has a population of 25,000, making it the 14th largest place in Essex.
Year-by-year official estimates for the wider area: Basildon population trends, 2001–2025.
Pitsea in context
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 Pitsea sits in postcode district SS13.
Council tax
The area Band D council tax for Basildon, the billing authority covering Pitsea, is £2,327 for 2026–27.
From MHCLG's council tax statistics (Table 9): the area average including police, fire and parish precepts, so it is the council's figure rather than the town's, and your own band depends on your property's 1991 valuation.