Great Yarmouth population, 2001–2024
Great Yarmouth has an estimated population of 100,529 (mid-2024), up 10.5% since 2001. Official ONS mid-year estimates for the Great Yarmouth local authority area.
100,529
population, mid-2024
+10.5%
since 2001
+2.0%
last 10 years
2024
peak year (100,529)
Year by year
| Year | Population | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 100,529 | +0.3% |
| 2023 | 100,209 | +0.4% |
| 2022 | 99,798 | -0.4% |
| 2021 | 100,179 | +0.3% |
| 2020 | 99,851 | -0.6% |
| 2019 | 100,448 | +0.1% |
| 2018 | 100,343 | +0.2% |
| 2017 | 100,181 | +0.7% |
| 2016 | 99,471 | +0.4% |
| 2015 | 99,031 | +0.5% |
| 2014 | 98,520 | +0.5% |
| 2013 | 98,076 | +0.4% |
| 2012 | 97,682 | +0.3% |
| 2011 | 97,424 | +0.4% |
| 2010 | 97,063 | +0.7% |
| 2009 | 96,414 | +0.5% |
| 2008 | 95,924 | +0.7% |
| 2007 | 95,211 | +0.7% |
| 2006 | 94,545 | +0.5% |
| 2005 | 94,113 | +0.9% |
| 2004 | 93,316 | +0.9% |
| 2003 | 92,526 | +1.2% |
| 2002 | 91,437 | +0.5% |
| 2001 | 90,945 | — |
Food businesses
Great Yarmouth has 176 takeaways, 240 restaurants and cafés and 118 pubs and bars on the FSA's statutory register (as of July 2026) — 0.73 takeaways per restaurant against an English average of 0.49, and 17.5 takeaways per 10,000 residents. How that compares across England.
High street businesses
Great Yarmouth has 35 hairdressers and beauty salons, 70 pubs and bars, 45 licensed restaurants, 90 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.
Figures are ONS mid-year population estimates for the Great Yarmouth local authority area (code E07000145), which can differ from the population of a town of the same name. Sources & method.
Common questions
What is the population of Great Yarmouth?
100,529, on the ONS mid-2024 estimate for the Great Yarmouth local authority area. This page charts the full annual series back to 2001, so the figure sits in its twenty-year context rather than alone.
Is Great Yarmouth growing or shrinking?
Growing: up 10.5% since 2001, from 90,945 to 100,529. The peak year in the series so far is 2024. Year-by-year figures and the chart are on this page.