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Wednesfield population

33,555people · latest estimate

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Wednesfield has a population of 33,555, making it the 2nd largest place in Wolverhampton.

#2

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

Wednesfield in context

2 km
south-east to Willenhall, the nearest larger town
710,689
people live within 10 km
#389
largest of 6,358 UK places
887
food businesses in Wolverhampton
Wednesfield 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 Wednesfield sits in postcode district WV11.

Council tax

The area Band D council tax for Wolverhampton, the billing authority covering Wednesfield, is £2,539 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 Wednesfield?
The populated place itself holds 33,555 residents. The wider Wolverhampton council area recorded 281,251 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
Wolverhampton, year by year from ONS estimates
Postcode district WV11
Wards, constituencies and the deprivation profile

Nearby in Wolverhampton

#PlacePopulation
1Wolverhampton263,700
2Bilston5,000

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