Fair Oak population

10,212people · latest estimate

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

Fair Oak has a population of 10,212, making it the 28th largest place in Hampshire.

#28

of 142 in Hampshire

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

Fair Oak in context

2 km

west to Bishopstoke, the nearest larger town

161,513

people live within 10 km

#1,222

largest of 6,358 UK places

340

food businesses in Eastleigh

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 Fair Oak sits in postcode district SO50.

Council tax

The area Band D council tax for Eastleigh, the billing authority covering Fair Oak, is £2,342 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 Fair Oak?

The populated place itself holds 10,212 residents. The wider Eastleigh council area recorded 143,710 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

Eastleigh, year by year from ONS estimates

Postcode district SO50

Wards, constituencies and the deprivation profile

Nearby in Hampshire

#	Place	Population
1	Petersfield	14,974
2	Lymington	14,858
3	Ringwood	14,084
4	Cowplain	8,775
5	Hook	7,321
6	Titchfield	7,280

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