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Spitalfields
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Spitalfields population

10,286people · latest estimate

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Spitalfields has a population of 10,286, making it the 213th largest place in Greater London.

#213
of 255 in Greater London

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

Spitalfields in context

1 km
south-east to Whitechapel, the nearest larger town
11,848,536
people live within 10 km
#1,214
largest of 6,358 UK places
1,675
food businesses in Tower Hamlets
Spitalfields 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 Spitalfields sits in postcode district E1.

Council tax

The area Band D council tax for Tower Hamlets, the billing authority covering Spitalfields, is £1,838 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 Spitalfields?
The populated place itself holds 10,286 residents. The wider Tower Hamlets council area recorded 334,240 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
Tower Hamlets, year by year from ONS estimates
Postcode district E1
Wards, constituencies and the deprivation profile

Nearby in Greater London

#PlacePopulation
1Vincent Square10,327
2Hyde Park10,319
3Cockfosters10,300
4Hampton Wick10,221
5Norbiton10,107
6Collier Row10,100

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