Population Statistics
Friern Barnet
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Friern Barnet population

17,250people · latest estimate

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Friern Barnet has a population of 17,250, making it the 95th largest place in Greater London.

#95
of 255 in Greater London

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

Friern Barnet in context

3 km
south-east to Muswell Hill, the nearest larger town
1,960,518
people live within 10 km
#753
largest of 6,358 UK places
974
food businesses in Barnet
Friern Barnet 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 Friern Barnet sits in postcode district N11.

Council tax

The area Band D council tax for Barnet, the billing authority covering Friern Barnet, is £2,133 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 Friern Barnet?
The populated place itself holds 17,250 residents. The wider Barnet council area recorded 408,087 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
Barnet, year by year from ONS estimates
Postcode district N11
Wards, constituencies and the deprivation profile

Nearby in Greater London

#PlacePopulation
1Abbey Wood17,700
2Bethnal Green17,590
3Bayswater17,500
4Harlesden17,162
5Brockley17,156
6South Ruislip16,800

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