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Barnsbury
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Barnsbury population

10,000people · latest estimate

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Barnsbury has a population of 10,000, making it the 221st largest place in Greater London.

#221
of 255 in Greater London

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

Barnsbury in context

1 km
south-east to Islington, the nearest larger town
11,873,292
people live within 10 km
#1,250
largest of 6,358 UK places
1,487
food businesses in Islington
Barnsbury in the UK

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 Barnsbury sits in postcode district N1.

Council tax

The area Band D council tax for Islington, the billing authority covering Barnsbury, is £2,108 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 Barnsbury?
The populated place itself holds 10,000 residents. The wider Islington council area recorded 224,551 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.

Go deeper

Population since 2001
Islington, year by year from ONS estimates
Postcode district N1
Wards, constituencies and the deprivation profile

Nearby in Greater London

#PlacePopulation
1Belmont10,048
2Kingston upon Thames10,001
3Upminster10,000
4Mottingham9,987
5Tolworth9,833
6Edgware9,832

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