Population Statistics
Bow
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Bow population

27,720people · latest estimate

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Bow has a population of 27,720, making it the 65th largest place in Greater London.

#65
of 255 in Greater London

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

Bow in context

1 km
north-east to Stratford, the nearest larger town
11,829,129
people live within 10 km
#471
largest of 6,358 UK places
1,675
food businesses in Tower Hamlets
Bow 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 Bow sits in postcode district E3.

Council tax

The area Band D council tax for Tower Hamlets, the billing authority covering Bow, is £1,838 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 Bow?
The populated place itself holds 27,720 residents. The wider Tower Hamlets council area recorded 334,240 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
Tower Hamlets, year by year from ONS estimates
Postcode district E3
Wards, constituencies and the deprivation profile

Nearby in Greater London

#PlacePopulation
1Kilburn29,027
2Wood Green28,453
3Muswell Hill27,992
4Highbury26,664
5Camden Town26,122
6Northolt26,000

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