Holmbury St Mary has a population of 572, making it the 119th largest place in Surrey.
The other populations of Holmbury St Mary
Depending on where you draw the boundary, Holmbury St Mary has between 572 and 800 residents. Both are correct.
| What you mean | Population | Source |
|---|---|---|
| The place itself The populated settlement, roughly the built-up core. |
572 | GeoNames |
| The built-up area Continuous development, where buildings sit less than 200m apart. Drawn from where the buildings are, not where the council boundary is. |
800 | ONS Census 2021 (2021) |
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Holmbury St Mary in context
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 Holmbury St Mary sits in postcode district RH5.
Food and drink on the high street
| Registered premises | Count |
|---|---|
| Restaurants and cafés (12.5 per 10,000 residents) | 1 |
| Pubs, bars and nightclubs (12.5 per 10,000 residents) | 1 |
Counts are registered food premises in the Holmbury St Mary built-up area (800 residents at the 2021 census), from the FSA food hygiene register, extracted 17 August 2026. The boundary is drawn from where the buildings are, so these figures cover the town itself rather than the wider council area, and no total is shown because the register also lists premises nobody would call a venue: school kitchens, care homes, warehouses. Compare towns →
Schools
| Open establishments | Count |
|---|---|
| Independent schools | 2 |
Open schools registered in the Holmbury St Mary built-up area, from the Department for Education's Get Information about Schools register, extracted 24 August 2026. Each school counts once: an independent special school appears under special schools, and the phase rows are state schools. No inspection grades are shown because Ofsted stopped issuing single-word overall judgements in 2024 and the register no longer carries them; current inspection reports are on Ofsted's own site. England only: the register lists Welsh schools without phase detail.
Broadband
| Availability | % of homes |
|---|---|
| Gigabit-capable (1,000 Mbit/s+) | 58.0% |
| Superfast (30 Mbit/s+) | 84.5% |
| Unable to get 10 Mbit/s download | 12 homes (6.6%) |
Share of the 181 residential premises in this built-up area that the fixed network can serve at each speed, from Ofcom's Connected Nations coverage data (network state July 2025). Availability is what the line to a home can deliver if ordered, not what households actually subscribe to, and a full-fibre street where everyone bought the cheapest package shows 100% here. Percentile compares towns of 10,000+ residents. Compare towns →
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Nearby in Surrey
| # | Place | Population |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ockley | 595 |
| 2 | Mickleham | 585 |
| 3 | Albury | 574 |
| 4 | Dockenfield | 399 |
| 5 | Walliswood | 354 |
| 6 | Hydestile | 338 |