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Becontree
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Becontree population

100,000people · latest estimate

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Becontree has a population of 100,000, making it the 16th largest place in Greater London.

#16
of 255 in Greater London

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

Becontree in context

3 km
east to Dagenham, the nearest larger town
1,195,483
people live within 10 km
#107
largest of 6,358 UK places
489
food businesses in Barking and Dagenham
Becontree 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 Becontree sits in postcode district RM8.

Council tax

The area Band D council tax for Barking and Dagenham, the billing authority covering Becontree, 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.

Common questions

What is the population of Becontree?
The populated place itself holds 100,000 residents. The wider Barking and Dagenham council area recorded 238,295 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
Barking and Dagenham, year by year from ONS estimates
Postcode district RM8
Wards, constituencies and the deprivation profile

Nearby in Greater London

#PlacePopulation
1Tottenham130,000
2Walthamstow109,424
3Dagenham108,368
4Romford95,000
5Hayes93,928
6Wembley90,045

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