Wealdstone population

18,500people · latest estimate

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

Wealdstone has a population of 18,500, making it the 90th largest place in Greater London.

#90

of 255 in Greater London

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

Wealdstone in context

2 km

south to Harrow, the nearest larger town

1,362,170

people live within 10 km

#704

largest of 6,358 UK places

763

food businesses in Harrow

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 Wealdstone sits in postcode district HA3.

Council tax

The area Band D council tax for Harrow, the billing authority covering Wealdstone, is £2,511 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 Wealdstone?

The populated place itself holds 18,500 residents. The wider Harrow council area recorded 272,612 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

Harrow, year by year from ONS estimates

Postcode district HA3

Wards, constituencies and the deprivation profile

Nearby in Greater London

#	Place	Population
1	Pinner	19,158
2	Hook	18,973
3	Golders Green	18,818
4	East Barnet	18,100
5	Abbey Wood	17,700
6	Bethnal Green	17,590

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