Population Statistics
Basford
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Basford population

16,000people · latest estimate

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Basford has a population of 16,000, making it the 2nd largest place in Nottingham.

#2
of 3 in Nottingham

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

Basford in context

3 km
south-east to Nottingham, the nearest larger town
595,418
people live within 10 km
#810
largest of 6,358 UK places
Basford 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 Basford sits in postcode district NG8.

Council tax

The area Band D council tax for Nottingham, the billing authority covering Basford, is £2,755 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 Basford?
The populated place itself holds 16,000 residents. The wider Nottingham council area recorded 331,077 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
Nottingham, year by year from ONS estimates
Postcode district NG8
Wards, constituencies and the deprivation profile

Nearby in Nottingham

#PlacePopulation
1Nottingham323,632
2New Basford8,371

All 3 places in Nottingham →