Borden has a population of 741, making it the 125th largest place in Kent.
#125
of 155 in Kent
The other populations of Borden
Depending on where you draw the boundary, Borden has between 530 and 741 residents. Both are correct.
| What you mean | Population | Source |
|---|---|---|
| The place itself The populated settlement, roughly the built-up core. |
741 | 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. |
530 | 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: Swale population trends, 2001–2025.
Borden in context
2 km
east to Sittingbourne, the nearest larger town
76,595
people live within 10 km
#4,540
largest of 6,358 UK places
493
food businesses in Swale
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 Borden sits in postcode district ME9.
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Population since 2001
Swale, year by year from ONS estimates
Postcode district ME9
Wards, constituencies and the deprivation profile