Greater London · England
Barking population
218,534people · latest estimate
Barking has a population of 218,534, making it the 6th largest place in Greater London.
Year-by-year official estimates for the wider area: Barking and Dagenham population trends, 2001–2025.
Barking in context
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 Barking sits in postcode district IG11.
Council tax
The area Band D council tax for Barking and Dagenham, the billing authority covering Barking, is £2,199 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.