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Warrington · England

Great Sankey population

43,793people · latest estimate

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By James Burfield, SEO consultant, Bath · Page updated · GeoNames · World Gazetteer 2005

Great Sankey has a population of 43,793, making it the 2nd largest place in Warrington. In 2005 the World Gazetteer recorded 43,793, a rise of 0.0% since.

43,793
in 2005
+0.0%
since 2005
#2
of 11 in Warrington
The 2005 figure is from the World Gazetteer archive and may draw its boundary differently from the current source, so treat the change as indicative. Sources: method.

Year-by-year official estimates for the wider area: Warrington population trends, 2001–2024.

Great Sankey in context

4 km
east to Warrington, the nearest larger town
629,776
people live within 10 km
#291
largest of 6,358 UK places
726
food businesses in Warrington
Great Sankey in the UK

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 Great Sankey sits in postcode district WA5.

Council tax

The area Band D council tax for Warrington, the billing authority covering Great Sankey, is £2,448 for 2026–27.

From MHCLG's council tax statistics (Table 9): the area average including police, fire and parish precepts, so it is the council's figure rather than the town's, and your own band depends on your property's 1991 valuation.

Common questions

What is the population of Great Sankey?
The populated place itself holds 43,793 residents. The wider Warrington council area recorded 215,391 in 2024. Each figure describes a different boundary and all are correct; the meanings table on this page says which is which, because a population without its boundary is not an answer.

Go deeper

Population since 2001
Warrington, year by year from ONS estimates
Postcode district WA5
Wards, constituencies and the deprivation profile

Nearby in Warrington

#PlacePopulation
1Warrington172,330
2Lymm11,608
3Grappenhall9,377
4Culcheth6,708
5Stockton Heath6,396

All 11 places in Warrington →