Canonbury population

12,072people · latest estimate

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

Canonbury has a population of 12,072, making it the 175th largest place in Greater London.

#175

of 255 in Greater London

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

Canonbury in context

1 km

north-west to Highbury, the nearest larger town

11,927,413

people live within 10 km

#1,071

largest of 6,358 UK places

1,487

food businesses in Islington

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 Canonbury sits in postcode district N1.

Council tax

The area Band D council tax for Islington, the billing authority covering Canonbury, 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 Canonbury?

The populated place itself holds 12,072 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.

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Population since 2001

Islington, year by year from ONS estimates

Postcode district N1

Wards, constituencies and the deprivation profile

Nearby in Greater London

#	Place	Population
1	Crystal Palace	12,255
2	Marylebone	12,157
3	Edgwarebury	12,100
4	Elm Park	12,048
5	Emerson Park	11,977
6	St. Helier	11,949

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