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Old Swan population

15,596people · latest estimate

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Old Swan has a population of 15,596, making it the 10th largest place in Liverpool.

#10
of 27 in Liverpool

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

Old Swan in context

3 km
west to Kensington, the nearest larger town
1,430,252
people live within 10 km
#838
largest of 6,358 UK places
2,291
food businesses in Liverpool
Old Swan 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 Old Swan sits in postcode district L13.

Council tax

The area Band D council tax for Liverpool, the billing authority covering Old Swan, is £2,674 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 Old Swan?
The populated place itself holds 15,596 residents. The wider Liverpool council area recorded 508,961 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
Liverpool, year by year from ONS estimates
Postcode district L13
Wards, constituencies and the deprivation profile

Nearby in Liverpool

#PlacePopulation
1Fazakerley16,374
2Hunts Cross15,740
3Belle Vale15,613
4Allerton15,540
5Croxteth14,432
6Knotty Ash14,355

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