Population Statistics
Chessington
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Chessington population

19,433people · latest estimate

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Chessington has a population of 19,433, making it the 86th largest place in Greater London.

#86
of 255 in Greater London

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

Chessington in context

3 km
north to Surbiton, the nearest larger town
979,724
people live within 10 km
#672
largest of 6,358 UK places
675
food businesses in Kingston upon Thames
Chessington 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 Chessington sits in postcode district KT9.

Council tax

The area Band D council tax for Kingston upon Thames, the billing authority covering Chessington, is £2,609 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 Chessington?
The populated place itself holds 19,433 residents. The wider Kingston upon Thames council area recorded 172,761 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
Kingston upon Thames, year by year from ONS estimates
Postcode district KT9
Wards, constituencies and the deprivation profile

Nearby in Greater London

#PlacePopulation
1Hampton20,000
2Soho19,634
3Blackwall19,461
4Pinner19,158
5Hook18,973
6Golders Green18,818

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