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Rossendale population

67,400people · latest estimate

By James Burfield, SEO consultant, Bath · Page updated · GeoNames

Rossendale has a population of 67,400, making it the 4th largest place in Lancashire.

#4
of 94 in Lancashire

Year-by-year official estimates for the wider area: Rossendale population trends, 2001–2024.

Rossendale has no city status, making it the 89th largest town in the UK.

Rossendale in context

11 km
south-east to Rochdale, the nearest larger town
251,117
people live within 10 km
#171
largest of 6,358 UK places
300
food businesses in Rossendale
Rossendale 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 Rossendale sits in postcode district BL0.

Council tax

The area Band D council tax for Rossendale, the billing authority covering Rossendale, is £2,520 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 Rossendale?
The populated place itself holds 67,400 residents. The wider Rossendale council area recorded 73,045 in 2024. 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
Rossendale, year by year from ONS estimates
Postcode district BL0
Wards, constituencies and the deprivation profile

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#PlacePopulation
1Preston313,332
2Burnley149,422
3Fylde76,500
4Morecambe51,644
5Lancaster47,162
6Lytham St Annes42,695

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