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Wyre population, 2001–2024

Wyre has an estimated population of 118,743 (mid-2024), up 12.2% since 2001. Official ONS mid-year estimates for the Wyre local authority area.

118,743
population, mid-2024
+12.2%
since 2001
+10.2%
last 10 years
2024
peak year (118,743)
2005201020152020 106k 119k

Year by year

YearPopulationChange
2024118,743+1.6%
2023116,832+1.6%
2022114,974+2.3%
2021112,434+1.8%
2020110,409+0.8%
2019109,544+0.5%
2018109,019+0.3%
2017108,707+0.1%
2016108,574+0.1%
2015108,461+0.6%
2014107,765+0.2%
2013107,497+0.0%
2012107,466-0.2%
2011107,692-0.2%
2010107,912-0.1%
2009108,057-0.2%
2008108,245-0.2%
2007108,475+0.0%
2006108,435+0.2%
2005108,188+0.4%
2004107,760+0.5%
2003107,246+0.8%
2002106,444+0.6%
2001105,800

Food businesses

Wyre has 127 takeaways, 206 restaurants and cafés and 105 pubs and bars on the FSA's statutory register (as of July 2026) — 0.62 takeaways per restaurant against an English average of 0.49, and 10.7 takeaways per 10,000 residents. How that compares across England.

Figures are ONS mid-year population estimates for the Wyre local authority area (code E07000128), which can differ from the population of a town of the same name. Sources & method.