Population of the national parks of England and Wales
Official statistics in development
Mid-year estimates of the resident population of each of the 13 national parks of England and Wales, ten in England and three in Wales, in the latest three years, from the ONS.
South Downs
116,233
Mid-2024 · the national park with the most residents
Verified against source, 3 November 2026, 10:36 UTC- Mid-2024
- Mid-2023
Source: Office for National Statistics. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Data table
13 rows
| Area | Mid-2024 | Mid-2023 | Mid-2022 |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Downs E26000010 | 116,233 | 115,743 | 115,156 |
| Lake District E26000011 | 38,658 | 38,710 | 38,876 |
| Peak District E26000006 | 35,837 | 35,867 | 35,904 |
| Dartmoor E26000001 | 34,875 | 35,037 | 34,369 |
| New Forest E26000009 | 34,296 | 34,261 | 34,355 |
| Bannau Brycheiniog W18000001 | 33,804 | 33,781 | 33,647 |
| Eryri W18000003 | 24,536 | 24,375 | 24,307 |
| Yorkshire Dales E26000012 | 23,286 | 23,335 | 23,190 |
| North York Moors E26000005 | 23,233 | 23,242 | 23,080 |
| Pembrokeshire Coast W18000002 | 21,285 | 21,207 | 21,191 |
| Exmoor E26000002 | 10,058 | 10,183 | 10,206 |
| The Broads E26000007 | 6,479 | 6,436 | 6,391 |
| Northumberland E26000004 | 1,855 | 1,848 | 1,874 |
Source and licence
- Publisher
- Office for National Statistics
- Check it yourself
- https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populationandmigration/populationestimates/datasets/nationalparkmidyearpopulationestimatesexperimental
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0 – Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Retrieved
- 3 November 2026, 10:36 UTC
- Raw files fetched
- https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populationandmigration/populationestimates/datasets/nationalparkmidyearpopulationestimatesexperimental/dataSHA-256 5ae951dd5196338d062c263c262319aa43da1b30d4d7afd443901efa8bfbc745 · 5,903 bytes
- https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populationandmigration/populationestimates/datasets/nationalparkmidyearpopulationestimatesexperimental/mid2022revisednov2025tomid2024/dataSHA-256 9a89f6a847ba16af8e078e37323343211da285d9bb99e448e6d059b369137854 · 446 bytes
- https://www.ons.gov.uk/file?uri=/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populationandmigration/populationestimates/datasets/nationalparkmidyearpopulationestimatesexperimental/mid2022revisednov2025tomid2024/sapenationalparks20222024.xlsxSHA-256 94a5334aa245b7c6c304da60e713bf1316bcccba1e322a04539492dbcb340929 · 97,072 bytes
Verification
Verified against source, 3 November 2026, 10:36 UTC Run at 3 November 2026, 10:36 UTC; 39 of 39 figures matched the live source.
| Result | Check | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| Pass | Provenance recorded | Office for National Statistics; Open Government Licence v3.0; retrieved 2026-11-03T10:36:08Z; 3 raw file(s) |
| Pass | Raw files match recorded SHA-256 | 3 of 3 files intact |
| Pass | Re-parsing raw files reproduces figures | 39 of 39 figures and the headline reproduced |
| Pass | Figures are finite numbers | 39 figures, 0 invalid |
| Pass | Live source matches every figure | 39 of 39 figures match exactly after downloading 3 source file(s) again (3 byte-identical); the headline matches |
| Pass | ONS edition is current | the mid2022revisednov2025tomid2024 edition counts at 2024-06-30, 856 days before retrieval (limit 1000) |
| Not run | Second official route | No independent second route to these figures is published: the ONS's earlier reference tables for the parks stop at mid-2012, and no other publisher estimates them. The live re-fetch is the check. |
| Pass | Each park's ages add up to its total | in 39 of 39 park-years the women's and men's single years of age, 0 to 90 and over, add up to the total exactly |
| Pass | Source page answers | https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populationandmigration/populationestimates/datasets/nationalparkmidyearpopulationestimatesexperimental – HTTP 200 |
Notes
- The usually resident population at the 30th of June in each of the 13 national parks of England and Wales, on the parks' boundaries as at the 2021 Census. The ONS builds them up from its output area estimates and presents them unrounded, though it says they are not accurate to the last person.
- The ONS gives no figure for all the parks together, nor for England's or Wales's, so none is shown. The parks have no pages of their own, and no official source the hub reads says which parks a constituency takes in, so no seat's page lists one.
- From the ONS's edition ‘Mid-2022 revised (Nov 2025) to mid-2024’, published on the 7th of November 2025.
- Mid-2022 is the ONS's revised figure of November 2025, on the same basis as mid-2023 and mid-2024.