Population Statistics
Evington
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Evington population

17,268people · latest estimate

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Evington has a population of 17,268, making it the 10th largest place in Leicestershire.

#10
of 123 in Leicestershire

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

Evington in context

1 km
north-west to Oadby, the nearest larger town
599,470
people live within 10 km
#752
largest of 6,358 UK places
168
food businesses in Oadby and Wigston
Evington 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 Evington sits in postcode district LE2.

Council tax

The area Band D council tax for Oadby and Wigston, the billing authority covering Evington, is £2,407 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 Evington?
The populated place itself holds 17,268 residents. The wider Oadby and Wigston council area recorded 61,533 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
Oadby and Wigston, year by year from ONS estimates
Postcode district LE2
Wards, constituencies and the deprivation profile

Nearby in Leicestershire

#PlacePopulation
1Oadby23,849
2Earl Shilton19,578
3Mountsorrel17,297
4Glen Parva17,189
5Braunstone16,850
6Leicester Forest East13,846

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