Population Statistics
Pitsea
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Pitsea population

25,000people · latest estimate

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Pitsea has a population of 25,000, making it the 14th largest place in Essex.

#14
of 153 in Essex

Year-by-year official estimates for the wider area: Basildon population trends, 2001–2025.

Pitsea in context

4 km
west to Basildon, the nearest larger town
403,279
people live within 10 km
#522
largest of 6,358 UK places
463
food businesses in Basildon
Pitsea 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 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.

Common questions

What is the population of Pitsea?
The populated place itself holds 25,000 residents. The wider Basildon council area recorded 193,489 in 2025. Each figure describes a different boundary and all are correct; the meanings table on this page says which is which, because a population without its boundary is not an answer.

Go deeper

Population since 2001
Basildon, year by year from ONS estimates
Postcode district SS13
Wards, constituencies and the deprivation profile

Nearby in Essex

#PlacePopulation
1Rayleigh32,380
2Wickford27,535
3Witham25,353
4Maldon23,380
5Waltham Abbey22,858
6Harwich20,723

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