Soho population

19,634people · latest estimate

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

Soho has a population of 19,634, making it the 84th largest place in Greater London.

#84

of 255 in Greater London

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

Soho in context

1 km

south-east to London, the nearest larger town

11,749,118

people live within 10 km

#663

largest of 6,358 UK places

3,944

food businesses in Westminster

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 Soho sits in postcode district W1F.

Council tax

The area Band D council tax for Westminster, the billing authority covering Soho, is £1,050 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 Soho?

The populated place itself holds 19,634 residents. The wider Westminster council area recorded 212,367 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

Westminster, year by year from ONS estimates

Postcode district W1F

Wards, constituencies and the deprivation profile

Nearby in Greater London

#	Place	Population
1	Wallington	20,850
2	Pimlico	20,709
3	Hampton	20,000
4	Blackwall	19,461
5	Chessington	19,433
6	Pinner	19,158

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