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Didsbury population

14,292people · latest estimate

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Didsbury has a population of 14,292, making it the 4th largest place in Manchester.

#4
of 11 in Manchester

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

Didsbury in context

5 km
east to Stockport, the nearest larger town
1,416,475
people live within 10 km
#926
largest of 6,358 UK places
3,170
food businesses in Manchester
Didsbury 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 Didsbury sits in postcode district M20.

Council tax

The area Band D council tax for Manchester, the billing authority covering Didsbury, is £2,312 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 Didsbury?
The populated place itself holds 14,292 residents. The wider Manchester council area recorded 589,670 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
Manchester, year by year from ONS estimates
Postcode district M20
Wards, constituencies and the deprivation profile

Nearby in Manchester

#PlacePopulation
1Manchester568,996
2Manchester City Centre17,861
3Longsight16,007
4Fallowfield14,132
5Burnage13,706
6Cheetham Hill12,846

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