West Ealing population

15,169people · latest estimate

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

West Ealing has a population of 15,169, making it the 124th largest place in Greater London.

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of 255 in Greater London

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

West Ealing in context

2 km

east to Ealing Common, the nearest larger town

1,895,880

people live within 10 km

#855

largest of 6,358 UK places

1,347

food businesses in Ealing

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 West Ealing sits in postcode district W13.

Council tax

The area Band D council tax for Ealing, the billing authority covering West Ealing, is £2,139 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 West Ealing?

The populated place itself holds 15,169 residents. The wider Ealing council area recorded 387,072 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

Ealing, year by year from ONS estimates

Postcode district W13

Wards, constituencies and the deprivation profile

Nearby in Greater London

#	Place	Population
1	Latchmere	15,358
2	Manor Park	15,318
3	Orpington	15,248
4	Palmers Green	15,162
5	Totteridge	15,159
6	Shadwell	15,110

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