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Saint Peters
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Saint Peters population

125,370people · latest estimate

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Saint Peters has a population of 125,370, making it the largest place in Kent.

#1
of 155 in Kent

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

Saint Peters has no city status, making it the 30th largest town in the UK.

Saint Peters in context

52 km
west to Southend-on-Sea, the nearest larger town
270,423
people live within 10 km
#83
largest of 6,358 UK places
732
food businesses in Thanet
Saint Peters 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 Saint Peters sits in postcode district CT10.

Council tax

The area Band D council tax for Thanet, the billing authority covering Saint Peters, is £2,491 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 Saint Peters?
The populated place itself holds 125,370 residents. The wider Thanet council area recorded 143,618 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
Thanet, year by year from ONS estimates
Postcode district CT10
Wards, constituencies and the deprivation profile

Nearby in Kent

#PlacePopulation
1Maidstone107,627
2Royal Tunbridge Wells68,910
3Folkestone66,429
4Margate63,322

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