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Wood Green
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Wood Green population

28,453people · latest estimate

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Wood Green has a population of 28,453, making it the 63rd largest place in Greater London.

#63
of 255 in Greater London

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

Wood Green in context

3 km
east to Tottenham, the nearest larger town
2,190,231
people live within 10 km
#461
largest of 6,358 UK places
867
food businesses in Haringey
Wood Green 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 Wood Green sits in postcode district N22.

Council tax

The area Band D council tax for Haringey, the billing authority covering Wood Green, is £2,314 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 Wood Green?
The populated place itself holds 28,453 residents. The wider Haringey council area recorded 266,218 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
Haringey, year by year from ONS estimates
Postcode district N22
Wards, constituencies and the deprivation profile

Nearby in Greater London

#PlacePopulation
1Greenwich30,578
2Barnet30,000
3Kilburn29,027
4Muswell Hill27,992
5Bow27,720
6Highbury26,664

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