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Woodford Green
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Woodford Green population

22,803people · latest estimate

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Woodford Green has a population of 22,803, making it the 76th largest place in Greater London.

#76
of 255 in Greater London

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

Woodford Green in context

3 km
north-west to Chingford, the nearest larger town
1,633,582
people live within 10 km
#574
largest of 6,358 UK places
799
food businesses in Redbridge
Woodford 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 Woodford Green sits in postcode district IG8.

Council tax

The area Band D council tax for Redbridge, the billing authority covering Woodford Green, is £2,295 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 Woodford Green?
The populated place itself holds 22,803 residents. The wider Redbridge council area recorded 321,829 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
Redbridge, year by year from ONS estimates
Postcode district IG8
Wards, constituencies and the deprivation profile

Nearby in Greater London

#PlacePopulation
1Chalk Farm24,977
2New Malden23,818
3Hanworth23,563
4Hadley Wood21,639
5Richmond21,469
6Barnes21,218

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