Shotley Gate has a population of 1,511, making it the 46th largest place in Suffolk. In 2005 the World Gazetteer recorded 1,566, a fall of 3.5% since.
The other populations of Shotley Gate
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. |
1,511 | 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. |
1,415 | ONS Census 2021 (2021) |
| The place in 2005 The same settlement twenty years earlier. |
1,566 | World Gazetteer (2005) |
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Shotley Gate in context
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 Shotley Gate sits in postcode district IP9.
Food and drink on the high street
| Registered premises | Count |
|---|---|
| Pubs, bars and nightclubs (14.1 per 10,000 residents) | 2 |
Counts are registered food premises in the Shotley Gate built-up area (1,415 residents at the 2021 census), from the FSA food hygiene register, extracted 17 August 2026. The boundary is drawn from where the buildings are, so these figures cover the town itself rather than the wider council area, and no total is shown because the register also lists premises nobody would call a venue: school kitchens, care homes, warehouses. Compare towns →
Crime, per 1,000 residents
| Category (police-recorded, 12 months) | Rate |
|---|---|
| Violence and sexual offences | 24.0 |
| Anti-social behaviour | 4.9 |
| Criminal damage and arson | 7.1 |
| Vehicle crime | 0.7 |
| Burglary | 1.4 |
| Other theft | 2.1 |
| All recorded offences | 41.7 |
The all-offences line is a count of records, not a safety score: it weighs every category equally, which is exactly why we publish the categories. We deliberately do not combine them into a single index.
Figures are police-recorded crime (August 2025 to July 2026) located to this built-up area, per 1,000 residents at the 2021 census. Three cautions, each of which changes how a rate should be read: recorded crime is not crime experienced, because reporting rates differ by category and by place; the denominator counts residents, so town centres and visitor towns run high per resident precisely because many people there are not residents; and a high figure can reflect more reporting as easily as more crime. Percentiles compare towns of 10,000+ residents. Greater Manchester and Gloucestershire constabularies do not publish, so their towns show a note instead of a partial figure. Compare towns →
Broadband
| Availability | % of homes |
|---|---|
| Gigabit-capable (1,000 Mbit/s+) | 7.5% |
| Superfast (30 Mbit/s+) | 100.0% |
Share of the 703 residential premises in this built-up area that the fixed network can serve at each speed, from Ofcom's Connected Nations coverage data (network state July 2025). Availability is what the line to a home can deliver if ordered, not what households actually subscribe to, and a full-fibre street where everyone bought the cheapest package shows 100% here. Percentile compares towns of 10,000+ residents. Compare towns →
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Nearby in Suffolk
| # | Place | Population |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cookley | 1,637 |
| 2 | Great Barton | 1,600 |
| 3 | Wattisham | 1,539 |
| 4 | Bures Saint Mary | 1,433 |
| 5 | Lavenham | 1,413 |
| 6 | Grundisburgh | 1,375 |