Furzedown population

15,504people · latest estimate

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

Furzedown has a population of 15,504, making it the 120th largest place in Greater London.

#120

of 255 in Greater London

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

Furzedown in context

1 km

north-east to Streatham, the nearest larger town

11,061,158

people live within 10 km

#846

largest of 6,358 UK places

1,609

food businesses in Wandsworth

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 Furzedown sits in postcode district SW16.

Council tax

The area Band D council tax for Wandsworth, the billing authority covering Furzedown, is £1,028 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 Furzedown?

The populated place itself holds 15,504 residents. The wider Wandsworth council area recorded 339,859 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

Wandsworth, year by year from ONS estimates

Postcode district SW16

Wards, constituencies and the deprivation profile

Nearby in Greater London

#	Place	Population
1	Queenstown	15,599
2	Earlsfield	15,562
3	West Ham	15,551
4	Latchmere	15,358
5	Manor Park	15,318
6	Orpington	15,248

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