Brixton Hill population

12,458people · latest estimate

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

Brixton Hill has a population of 12,458, making it the 167th largest place in Greater London.

#167

of 255 in Greater London

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

Brixton Hill in context

2 km

north-east to Brixton, the nearest larger town

11,556,172

people live within 10 km

#1,051

largest of 6,358 UK places

1,368

food businesses in Lambeth

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 Brixton Hill sits in postcode district SW2.

Council tax

The area Band D council tax for Lambeth, the billing authority covering Brixton Hill, is £2,047 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 Brixton Hill?

The populated place itself holds 12,458 residents. The wider Lambeth council area recorded 314,298 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

Lambeth, year by year from ONS estimates

Postcode district SW2

Wards, constituencies and the deprivation profile

Nearby in Greater London

#	Place	Population
1	Hornsey	12,659
2	Barkingside	12,609
3	Rainham	12,482
4	Harold Wood	12,443
5	Hillingdon	12,403
6	Cranford	12,330

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