Population Statistics
Peckham
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Peckham population

71,552people · latest estimate

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Peckham has a population of 71,552, making it the 27th largest place in Greater London.

#27
of 255 in Greater London

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

Peckham in context

5 km
north-east to Canary Wharf, the nearest larger town
11,252,337
people live within 10 km
#158
largest of 6,358 UK places
1,739
food businesses in Southwark
Peckham 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 Peckham sits in postcode district SE15.

Council tax

The area Band D council tax for Southwark, the billing authority covering Peckham, is £1,967 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 Peckham?
The populated place itself holds 71,552 residents. The wider Southwark council area recorded 312,366 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
Southwark, year by year from ONS estimates
Postcode district SE15
Wards, constituencies and the deprivation profile

Nearby in Greater London

#PlacePopulation
1Battersea75,651
2Canary Wharf73,390
3Purley72,000
4Chingford70,583
5Uxbridge70,000
6Wimbledon68,187

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