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Upminster population

10,000people · latest estimate

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Upminster has a population of 10,000, making it the 220th largest place in Greater London.

#220
of 255 in Greater London

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

Upminster in context

3 km
north-west to Emerson Park, the nearest larger town
541,544
people live within 10 km
#1,248
largest of 6,358 UK places
342
food businesses in Havering
Upminster 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 Upminster sits in postcode district RM14.

Council tax

The area Band D council tax for Havering, the billing authority covering Upminster, is £2,425 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 Upminster?
The populated place itself holds 10,000 residents. The wider Havering council area recorded 280,787 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
Havering, year by year from ONS estimates
Postcode district RM14
Wards, constituencies and the deprivation profile

Nearby in Greater London

#PlacePopulation
1Crouch End10,075
2Belmont10,048
3Kingston upon Thames10,001
4Barnsbury10,000
5Mottingham9,987
6Tolworth9,833

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