Svencelė is a village in the centre of Klaipėda County in western Lithuania, by the Curonian Lagoon. The village was part of the Klaipėda Region and the ethnographic Lithuania Minor.

Svencelė was first mentioned in 1509.

In 1972 the nearby Svencelė oil field began production.

Historical population

Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1871 251 —     1905 392 +1.32% 1910 383 −0.46% 1925 413 +0.50% 1959 195 −2.18% 1970 268 +2.93%	Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1979 264 −0.17% 1989 159 −4.94% 2001 152 −0.37% 2011 113 −2.92% 2021 93 −1.93%
Source: 1902, 1923, 1959 & 1970, 1979, 1989, 2001, 2011