Castle Point population, 2001–2025
Castle Point has an estimated population of 90,613 (mid-2025), up 4.5% since 2001. Official ONS mid-year estimates for the Castle Point local authority area. The newest year is provisional: when ONS published mid-2025 it revised the mid-2024 figure for 348 of the 361 UK authorities, so read the last point on any of these charts as the current best estimate rather than a settled number.
Year by year
| Year | Population | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 90,613 | +0.5% |
| 2024 | 90,121 | +0.3% |
| 2023 | 89,818 | +0.2% |
| 2022 | 89,630 | -0.1% |
| 2021 | 89,712 | -0.1% |
| 2020 | 89,782 | +0.2% |
| 2019 | 89,619 | +0.3% |
| 2018 | 89,341 | +0.1% |
| 2017 | 89,275 | -0.1% |
| 2016 | 89,390 | +0.6% |
| 2015 | 88,854 | +0.2% |
| 2014 | 88,654 | +0.3% |
| 2013 | 88,377 | +0.3% |
| 2012 | 88,119 | +0.2% |
| 2011 | 87,964 | -0.2% |
| 2010 | 88,115 | -0.0% |
| 2009 | 88,122 | +0.1% |
| 2008 | 88,020 | +0.3% |
| 2007 | 87,776 | +0.2% |
| 2006 | 87,576 | +0.1% |
| 2005 | 87,462 | +0.3% |
| 2004 | 87,207 | -0.0% |
| 2003 | 87,237 | +0.4% |
| 2002 | 86,866 | +0.2% |
| 2001 | 86,673 | — |
Food businesses
Castle Point has 77 takeaways, 110 restaurants and cafés and 34 pubs and bars on the FSA's statutory register (as of July 2026) — 0.70 takeaways per restaurant against an English average of 0.49, and 8.5 takeaways per 10,000 residents. How that compares across England.
High street businesses
Castle Point has 70 hairdressers and beauty salons, 15 pubs and bars, 40 licensed restaurants, 55 takeaways on the ONS business register (2025). Compare across the UK.
Rounded to the nearest 5, which is how ONS protects individual businesses from being identified.