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Lower Earley
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Lower Earley population

32,000people · latest estimate

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Lower Earley has a population of 32,000, making it the 2nd largest place in Wokingham.

#2
of 10 in Wokingham

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

Lower Earley in context

5 km
north-west to Reading, the nearest larger town
427,428
people live within 10 km
#405
largest of 6,358 UK places
358
food businesses in Wokingham
Lower Earley 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 Lower Earley sits in postcode district RG6.

Council tax

The area Band D council tax for Wokingham, the billing authority covering Lower Earley, is £2,498 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 Lower Earley?
The populated place itself holds 32,000 residents. The wider Wokingham council area recorded 187,200 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
Wokingham, year by year from ONS estimates
Postcode district RG6
Wards, constituencies and the deprivation profile

Nearby in Wokingham

#PlacePopulation
1Wokingham41,143
2Twyford7,533
3Wargrave4,209
4Charvil3,042
5Sonning1,631

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