Charlton population

14,385people · latest estimate

Photo: Steve Cadman from London, U.K., CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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

Charlton has a population of 14,385, making it the 144th largest place in Greater London.

#144

of 255 in Greater London

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

Charlton in context

3 km

east to Plumstead, the nearest larger town

1,766,079

people live within 10 km

#916

largest of 6,358 UK places

904

food businesses in Greenwich

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 Charlton sits in postcode district SE7.

Council tax

The area Band D council tax for Greenwich, the billing authority covering Charlton, 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 Charlton?

The populated place itself holds 14,385 residents. The wider Greenwich council area recorded 301,225 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

Greenwich, year by year from ONS estimates

Postcode district SE7

Wards, constituencies and the deprivation profile

Nearby in Greater London

#	Place	Population
1	Chelsfield	14,507
2	Southgate	14,454
3	Northumberland Park	14,429
4	West Drayton	14,370
5	Kidbrooke	14,300
6	Harrow Weald	14,300

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