Chingford population

70,583people · latest estimate

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

Chingford has a population of 70,583, making it the 28th largest place in Greater London.

#28

of 255 in Greater London

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

Chingford in context

4 km

west to Edmonton, the nearest larger town

1,293,241

people live within 10 km

#161

largest of 6,358 UK places

964

food businesses in Waltham Forest

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 Chingford sits in postcode district E4.

Council tax

The area Band D council tax for Waltham Forest, the billing authority covering Chingford, is £2,387 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 Chingford?

The populated place itself holds 70,583 residents. The wider Waltham Forest council area recorded 283,713 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

Waltham Forest, year by year from ONS estimates

Postcode district E4

Wards, constituencies and the deprivation profile

Nearby in Greater London

#	Place	Population
1	Canary Wharf	73,390
2	Purley	72,000
3	Peckham	71,552
4	Uxbridge	70,000
5	Wimbledon	68,187
6	Stamford Hill	68,050

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