Neston has a population of 15,352, making it the 9th largest place in Wiltshire. The World Gazetteer published 15,352 for Neston in 2005 and the current source still carries that same figure, so there is no measured change to report rather than no change having happened.
Year-by-year official estimates for the wider area: Wiltshire population trends, 2001–2025.
Neston in context
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 Neston sits in postcode district SN13.
Council tax
The area Band D council tax for Wiltshire, the billing authority covering Neston, is £2,572 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.