Wellington population

22,816people · latest estimate

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By James Burfield, SEO consultant, Bath · Page updated 18 September 2026 · GeoNames · World Gazetteer 2005

Wellington has a population of 22,816, making it the 2nd largest place in Telford and Wrekin. In 2005 the World Gazetteer recorded 22,816, a rise of 0.0% since.

22,816

in 2005

+0.0%

since 2005

of 12 in Telford and Wrekin

The 2005 figure is from the World Gazetteer archive and may draw its boundary differently from the current source, so treat the change as indicative. Sources: method.

Year-by-year official estimates for the wider area: Telford and Wrekin population trends, 2001–2024.

Wellington in context

5 km

south-east to Telford, the nearest larger town

212,061

people live within 10 km

#573

largest of 6,358 UK places

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 Wellington sits in postcode district TF1.

Council tax

The area Band D council tax for Telford and Wrekin, the billing authority covering Wellington, is £2,256 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 Wellington?

The populated place itself holds 22,816 residents. The wider Telford and Wrekin council area recorded 195,952 in 2024. 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

Telford and Wrekin, year by year from ONS estimates

Postcode district TF1

Wards, constituencies and the deprivation profile

Nearby in Telford and Wrekin

#	Place	Population
1	Telford	155,570
2	Hadley	14,829
3	Newport	12,741
4	Oakengates	8,517
5	Woodcote	2,775

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