Peterborough · England
Thorney population
1,745people · latest estimate
Thorney has a population of 1,745, making it the 4th largest place in Peterborough. In 2005 the World Gazetteer recorded 1,703, a rise of 2.5% since.
The other populations of Thorney
The same name covers more than one area, and each has its own figure.
| What you mean | Population | Source |
|---|---|---|
| The place itself The populated settlement, roughly the built-up core. |
1,745 | GeoNames |
| The built-up area Continuous development, where buildings sit less than 200m apart. Drawn from where the buildings are, not where the council boundary is. |
1,655 | ONS Census 2021 (2021) |
| The place in 2005 The same settlement twenty years earlier. |
1,703 | World Gazetteer (2005) |
Why these differ: which population figure is right? · compare with another place
The 2005 figure is from the World Gazetteer archive and may draw its boundary differently from the current source, so treat the change as indicative. Sources: method.
Year-by-year official estimates for the wider area: Peterborough population trends, 2001–2024.
Thorney in context
6 km
west to Eye, the nearest larger town
41,429
people live within 10 km
#3,157
largest of 6,358 UK places
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 Thorney sits in postcode district PE6.
Go deeper
Population since 2001
Peterborough, year by year from ONS estimates
Postcode district PE6
Wards, constituencies and the deprivation profile
Nearby in Peterborough
| # | Place | Population |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Peterborough | 163,379 |
| 2 | Eye | 2,875 |
| 3 | Wittering | 2,348 |
| 4 | Glinton | 1,740 |
| 5 | Castor | 1,393 |
| 6 | Northborough | 1,318 |