Longsight population

16,007people · latest estimate

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By James Burfield, SEO consultant, Bath · Page updated 18 September 2026 · GeoNames

Longsight has a population of 16,007, making it the 3rd largest place in Manchester.

of 11 in Manchester

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

Longsight in context

4 km

north-west to Manchester, the nearest larger town

1,431,465

people live within 10 km

#809

largest of 6,358 UK places

3,170

food businesses in Manchester

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 Longsight sits in postcode district M12.

Council tax

The area Band D council tax for Manchester, the billing authority covering Longsight, 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 Longsight?

The populated place itself holds 16,007 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.

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Population since 2001

Manchester, year by year from ONS estimates

Postcode district M12

Wards, constituencies and the deprivation profile

Nearby in Manchester

#	Place	Population
1	Manchester	568,996
2	Manchester City Centre	17,861
3	Didsbury	14,292
4	Fallowfield	14,132
5	Burnage	13,706
6	Cheetham Hill	12,846

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