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Harold Wood
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Harold Wood population

12,443people · latest estimate

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Harold Wood has a population of 12,443, making it the 168th largest place in Greater London.

#168
of 255 in Greater London

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

Harold Wood in context

4 km
south-west to Romford, the nearest larger town
504,634
people live within 10 km
#1,052
largest of 6,358 UK places
342
food businesses in Havering
Harold Wood 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 Harold Wood sits in postcode district RM3.

Council tax

The area Band D council tax for Havering, the billing authority covering Harold Wood, is £2,425 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 Harold Wood?
The populated place itself holds 12,443 residents. The wider Havering council area recorded 280,787 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
Havering, year by year from ONS estimates
Postcode district RM3
Wards, constituencies and the deprivation profile

Nearby in Greater London

#PlacePopulation
1Barkingside12,609
2Rainham12,482
3Brixton Hill12,458
4Hillingdon12,403
5Cranford12,330
6East Dulwich12,321

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