Shirley population

14,296people · latest estimate

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

Shirley has a population of 14,296, making it the 148th largest place in Greater London.

#148

of 255 in Greater London

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

Shirley in context

3 km

north-west to South Norwood, the nearest larger town

1,011,837

people live within 10 km

#925

largest of 6,358 UK places

1,090

food businesses in Croydon

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 Shirley sits in postcode district CR0.

Council tax

The area Band D council tax for Croydon, the billing authority covering Shirley, is £2,600 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 Shirley?

The populated place itself holds 14,296 residents. The wider Croydon council area recorded 410,085 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

Croydon, year by year from ONS estimates

Postcode district CR0

Wards, constituencies and the deprivation profile

Nearby in Greater London

#	Place	Population
1	West Drayton	14,370
2	Kidbrooke	14,300
3	Harrow Weald	14,300
4	West Wickham	14,276
5	Leyton	14,184
6	King's Cross	14,082

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