Population Statistics
Brockley
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Brockley population

17,156people · latest estimate

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Brockley has a population of 17,156, making it the 97th largest place in Greater London.

#97
of 255 in Greater London

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

Brockley in context

2 km
north-east to Greenwich, the nearest larger town
11,179,467
people live within 10 km
#760
largest of 6,358 UK places
1,114
food businesses in Lewisham
Brockley 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 Brockley sits in postcode district SE4.

Council tax

The area Band D council tax for Lewisham, the billing authority covering Brockley, is £2,237 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 Brockley?
The populated place itself holds 17,156 residents. The wider Lewisham council area recorded 301,037 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
Lewisham, year by year from ONS estimates
Postcode district SE4
Wards, constituencies and the deprivation profile

Nearby in Greater London

#PlacePopulation
1Bayswater17,500
2Friern Barnet17,250
3Harlesden17,162
4South Ruislip16,800
5Plumstead16,736
6South Norwood16,518

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