Lancashire · England
Cleveleys population
15,000people · latest estimate
Cleveleys has a population of 15,000, making it the 21st largest place in Lancashire.
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The other populations of Cleveleys
Depending on where you draw the boundary, Cleveleys has between 11,120 and 15,000 residents. Both are correct.
| What you mean | Population | Source |
|---|---|---|
| The place itself The populated settlement, roughly the built-up core. |
15,000 | 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. |
11,120 | 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: Wyre population trends, 2001–2025.
Cleveleys in context
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 Cleveleys sits in postcode district FY5.
Council tax
The area Band D council tax for Wyre, the billing authority covering Cleveleys, is £2,461 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.
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|---|---|---|
| 1 | Poulton-le-Fylde | 19,914 |
| 2 | Heysham | 17,016 |
| 3 | Haslingden | 15,204 |
| 4 | Clitheroe | 14,765 |
| 5 | Clayton-le-Woods | 14,528 |
| 6 | Bacup | 13,047 |