Balham population

14,751people · latest estimate

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

Balham has a population of 14,751, making it the 136th largest place in Greater London.

#136

of 255 in Greater London

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

Balham in context

2 km

north-west to Latchmere, the nearest larger town

11,097,001

people live within 10 km

#893

largest of 6,358 UK places

1,609

food businesses in Wandsworth

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 Balham sits in postcode district SW12.

Council tax

The area Band D council tax for Wandsworth, the billing authority covering Balham, is £1,028 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 Balham?

The populated place itself holds 14,751 residents. The wider Wandsworth council area recorded 339,859 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

Wandsworth, year by year from ONS estimates

Postcode district SW12

Wards, constituencies and the deprivation profile

Nearby in Greater London

#	Place	Population
1	Headstone	14,900
2	Whitechapel	14,862
3	Forest Hill	14,854
4	Thornton Heath	14,669
5	St. Ann's	14,638
6	Lee	14,573

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