Highbury population

26,664people · latest estimate

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

Highbury has a population of 26,664, making it the 66th largest place in Greater London.

#66

of 255 in Greater London

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

Highbury in context

2 km

south to Islington, the nearest larger town

11,849,003

people live within 10 km

#485

largest of 6,358 UK places

1,487

food businesses in Islington

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 Highbury sits in postcode district N5.

Council tax

The area Band D council tax for Islington, the billing authority covering Highbury, is £2,108 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 Highbury?

The populated place itself holds 26,664 residents. The wider Islington council area recorded 224,551 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

Islington, year by year from ONS estimates

Postcode district N5

Wards, constituencies and the deprivation profile

Nearby in Greater London

#	Place	Population
1	Wood Green	28,453
2	Muswell Hill	27,992
3	Bow	27,720
4	Camden Town	26,122
5	Northolt	26,000
6	Coulsdon	25,530

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