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Speke population

21,403people · latest estimate

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Speke has a population of 21,403, making it the 2nd largest place in Liverpool.

#2
of 27 in Liverpool

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

Speke in context

7 km
east to Runcorn, the nearest larger town
525,018
people live within 10 km
#598
largest of 6,358 UK places
2,291
food businesses in Liverpool
Speke 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 Speke sits in postcode district L24.

Council tax

The area Band D council tax for Liverpool, the billing authority covering Speke, 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 Speke?
The populated place itself holds 21,403 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 L24
Wards, constituencies and the deprivation profile

Nearby in Liverpool

#PlacePopulation
1Liverpool496,770
2Garston21,403
3Norris Green19,610
4Kirkdale18,657
5Kensington16,522

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