Boughton population

10,120people · latest estimate

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By James Burfield, SEO consultant, Bath · Page updated 25 September 2026 · GeoNames

Boughton has a population of 10,120, making it the 13th largest place in Nottinghamshire.

#13

of 98 in Nottinghamshire

Year-by-year official estimates for the wider area: Newark and Sherwood population trends, 2001–2025.

Boughton in context

14 km

north to Retford, the nearest larger town

31,086

people live within 10 km

#1,230

largest of 6,358 UK places

493

food businesses in Newark and Sherwood

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 Boughton sits in postcode district NG22.

Council tax

The area Band D council tax for Newark and Sherwood, the billing authority covering Boughton, is £2,682 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 Boughton?

The populated place itself holds 10,120 residents. The wider Newark and Sherwood council area recorded 128,684 in 2025. 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

Newark and Sherwood, year by year from ONS estimates

Postcode district NG22

Wards, constituencies and the deprivation profile

Nearby in Nottinghamshire

#	Place	Population
1	Eastwood	18,612
2	Mansfield Woodhouse	18,330
3	Kimberley	11,273
4	Warsop	9,766
5	Bingham	9,131
6	Market Warsop	9,018

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