Lancashire · England
Bretherton population
437people · latest estimate
Bretherton has a population of 437, making it the 90th largest place in Lancashire.
#90
of 94 in Lancashire
The other populations of Bretherton
Depending on where you draw the boundary, Bretherton has between 250 and 437 residents. Both are correct.
| What you mean | Population | Source |
|---|---|---|
| The place itself The populated settlement, roughly the built-up core. |
437 | 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. |
250 | 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: Chorley population trends, 2001–2025.
Bretherton in context
2 km
south-east to Croston, the nearest larger town
102,331
people live within 10 km
#5,510
largest of 6,358 UK places
376
food businesses in Chorley
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 Bretherton sits in postcode district PR26.
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Population since 2001
Chorley, year by year from ONS estimates
Postcode district PR26
Wards, constituencies and the deprivation profile