Bromley population, 2001–2025
Bromley has an estimated population of 336,048 (mid-2025), up 13.4% since 2001. Official ONS mid-year estimates for the Bromley local authority area. The newest year is provisional: when ONS published mid-2025 it revised the mid-2024 figure for 348 of the 361 UK authorities, so read the last point on any of these charts as the current best estimate rather than a settled number.
Year by year
| Year | Population | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 336,048 | +0.4% |
| 2024 | 334,641 | +0.7% |
| 2023 | 332,418 | +0.7% |
| 2022 | 330,047 | +0.0% |
| 2021 | 329,899 | -0.4% |
| 2020 | 331,247 | +0.0% |
| 2019 | 331,192 | +0.2% |
| 2018 | 330,367 | +0.4% |
| 2017 | 329,134 | +0.4% |
| 2016 | 327,701 | +0.6% |
| 2015 | 325,653 | +1.2% |
| 2014 | 321,800 | +1.0% |
| 2013 | 318,582 | +1.2% |
| 2012 | 314,663 | +1.3% |
| 2011 | 310,554 | +0.6% |
| 2010 | 308,560 | +0.5% |
| 2009 | 306,924 | +0.6% |
| 2008 | 304,968 | +0.8% |
| 2007 | 302,625 | +0.6% |
| 2006 | 300,963 | +0.5% |
| 2005 | 299,421 | +0.7% |
| 2004 | 297,307 | +0.0% |
| 2003 | 297,253 | +0.2% |
| 2002 | 296,668 | +0.2% |
| 2001 | 296,218 | — |
Food businesses
Bromley has 255 takeaways, 781 restaurants and cafés and 173 pubs and bars on the FSA's statutory register (as of July 2026) — 0.33 takeaways per restaurant against an English average of 0.49, and 7.6 takeaways per 10,000 residents. How that compares across England.
High street businesses
Bromley has 345 hairdressers and beauty salons, 70 pubs and bars, 185 licensed restaurants, 210 takeaways on the ONS business register (2025). Compare across the UK.
Rounded to the nearest 5, which is how ONS protects individual businesses from being identified.