Chelsea population

60,000people · latest estimate

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

Chelsea has a population of 60,000, making it the 40th largest place in Greater London.

#40

of 255 in Greater London

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

Chelsea in context

2 km

south-east to Battersea, the nearest larger town

11,632,233

people live within 10 km

#207

largest of 6,358 UK places

1,154

food businesses in Kensington and Chelsea

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 Chelsea sits in postcode district SW3.

Council tax

The area Band D council tax for Kensington and Chelsea, the billing authority covering Chelsea, is £1,667 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 Chelsea?

The populated place itself holds 60,000 residents. The wider Kensington and Chelsea council area recorded 145,734 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

Kensington and Chelsea, year by year from ONS estimates

Postcode district SW3

Wards, constituencies and the deprivation profile

Nearby in Greater London

#	Place	Population
1	Feltham	63,368
2	Acton	62,480
3	Beckenham	60,739
4	Streatham	58,055
5	South Croydon	55,198
6	Leytonstone	54,696

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