East Riding of Yorkshire population, 2001–2025
East Riding of Yorkshire has an estimated population of 360,334 (mid-2025), up 14.4% since 2001. Official ONS mid-year estimates for the East Riding of Yorkshire 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 | 360,334 | +1.4% |
| 2024 | 355,378 | +1.2% |
| 2023 | 351,030 | +1.3% |
| 2022 | 346,506 | +1.0% |
| 2021 | 343,145 | +0.6% |
| 2020 | 341,050 | +0.6% |
| 2019 | 338,944 | +0.5% |
| 2018 | 337,192 | +0.1% |
| 2017 | 336,697 | +0.1% |
| 2016 | 336,323 | +0.5% |
| 2015 | 334,735 | -0.3% |
| 2014 | 335,625 | +0.3% |
| 2013 | 334,572 | -0.1% |
| 2012 | 334,972 | +0.1% |
| 2011 | 334,673 | +0.3% |
| 2010 | 333,599 | +0.3% |
| 2009 | 332,748 | +0.1% |
| 2008 | 332,464 | +0.5% |
| 2007 | 330,865 | +0.7% |
| 2006 | 328,587 | +0.4% |
| 2005 | 327,268 | +0.7% |
| 2004 | 325,117 | +1.0% |
| 2003 | 321,869 | +1.0% |
| 2002 | 318,633 | +1.2% |
| 2001 | 314,854 | — |
Food businesses
East Riding of Yorkshire has 316 takeaways, 581 restaurants and cafés and 426 pubs and bars on the FSA's statutory register (as of July 2026) — 0.54 takeaways per restaurant against an English average of 0.49, and 8.8 takeaways per 10,000 residents. How that compares across England.
High street businesses
East Riding of Yorkshire has 295 hairdressers and beauty salons, 235 pubs and bars, 155 licensed restaurants, 245 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.