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Charlton Kings
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Charlton Kings population

11,700people · latest estimate

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By James Burfield, SEO consultant, Bath · Page updated · GeoNames · World Gazetteer 2005

Charlton Kings has a population of 11,700, making it the 10th largest place in Gloucestershire. The World Gazetteer published 11,700 for Charlton Kings in 2005 and the current source still carries that same figure, so there is no measured change to report rather than no change having happened.

11,700
in 2005
#10
The 2005 figure is from the World Gazetteer archive and may draw its boundary differently from the current source, so treat the change as indicative. Sources: method.

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

Charlton Kings in context

3 km
north-west to Cheltenham, the nearest larger town
165,940
people live within 10 km
#1,100
largest of 6,358 UK places
501
food businesses in Cheltenham
Charlton Kings 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 Charlton Kings sits in postcode district GL52.

Council tax

The area Band D council tax for Cheltenham, the billing authority covering Charlton Kings, is £2,370 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 Charlton Kings?
The populated place itself holds 11,700 residents. The wider Cheltenham council area recorded 121,452 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
Cheltenham, year by year from ONS estimates
Postcode district GL52
Wards, constituencies and the deprivation profile

Nearby in Gloucestershire

#PlacePopulation
1Bishops Cleeve14,231
2Churchdown13,287
3Cinderford12,942
4Coleford9,273
5Lydney8,776
6Stonehouse7,481

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