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Heston
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Heston population

37,045people · latest estimate

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Heston has a population of 37,045, making it the 55th largest place in Greater London.

#55
of 255 in Greater London

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

Heston in context

2 km
south-east to Hounslow, the nearest larger town
1,357,572
people live within 10 km
#350
largest of 6,358 UK places
937
food businesses in Hounslow
Heston 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 Heston sits in postcode district TW5.

Council tax

The area Band D council tax for Hounslow, the billing authority covering Heston, is £2,186 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 Heston?
The populated place itself holds 37,045 residents. The wider Hounslow council area recorded 299,486 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
Hounslow, year by year from ONS estimates
Postcode district TW5
Wards, constituencies and the deprivation profile

Nearby in Greater London

#PlacePopulation
1Shepherds Bush39,724
2Surbiton38,158
3Greenford38,000
4Stratford36,666
5Chiswick34,337
6Thamesmead31,824

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