Washwood Heath population

32,921people · latest estimate

Photo: Tony Hisgett from Birmingham, UK, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

By James Burfield, SEO consultant, Bath · Page updated 25 September 2026 · GeoNames

Washwood Heath has a population of 32,921, making it the 3rd largest place in City and Borough of Birmingham.

of 8 in City and Borough of Birmingham

Year-by-year official estimates for the wider area: Birmingham population trends, 2001–2025.

Washwood Heath in context

5 km

south-west to Birmingham, the nearest larger town

1,500,004

people live within 10 km

#397

largest of 6,358 UK places

3,979

food businesses in Birmingham

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 Washwood Heath sits in postcode district B36.

Council tax

The area Band D council tax for Birmingham, the billing authority covering Washwood Heath, is £2,363 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 Washwood Heath?

The populated place itself holds 32,921 residents. The wider Birmingham council area recorded 1,176,960 in 2025. 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.

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Population since 2001

Birmingham, year by year from ONS estimates

Postcode district B36

Wards, constituencies and the deprivation profile

Nearby in City and Borough of Birmingham

#	Place	Population
1	Birmingham	1,157,603
2	Sutton Coldfield	109,899
3	Aston	32,286
4	Acocks Green	26,635
5	Bartley Green	22,670
6	Hockley	13,919

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