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Wyre Forest population, 2001–2024

Wyre Forest has an estimated population of 103,913 (mid-2024), up 7.2% since 2001. Official ONS mid-year estimates for the Wyre Forest local authority area.

103,913
population, mid-2024
+7.2%
since 2001
+4.5%
last 10 years
2024
peak year (103,913)
2005201020152020 97k 104k

Year by year

YearPopulationChange
2024103,913+0.7%
2023103,151+0.8%
2022102,335+0.5%
2021101,791+0.5%
2020101,315-0.3%
2019101,592+0.1%
2018101,491+0.3%
2017101,163+0.6%
2016100,557+0.5%
2015100,052+0.6%
201499,441+0.8%
201398,678+0.5%
201298,217+0.2%
201198,048+0.1%
201097,943-0.1%
200997,993-0.2%
200898,143+0.1%
200798,017+0.4%
200697,666+0.1%
200597,585+0.4%
200497,223+0.1%
200397,149+0.3%
200296,830-0.1%
200196,929

Food businesses

Wyre Forest has 90 takeaways, 128 restaurants and cafés and 113 pubs and bars on the FSA's statutory register (as of July 2026) — 0.70 takeaways per restaurant against an English average of 0.49, and 8.7 takeaways per 10,000 residents. How that compares across England.

Figures are ONS mid-year population estimates for the Wyre Forest local authority area (code E07000239), which can differ from the population of a town of the same name. Sources & method.