This page includes the underlying data and a summary of the ONS population estimates by age and sex. The data tables of the mid-2023 estimates for Surrey and its Districts and Boroughs are included below. The 2023 estimates for other geographies have not yet been released, the page will continue to hold the mid-2022 estimates for these geographies until they can be updated.
Surrey-i also includes the 2021 Census data around population and household statistics.
Surrey-I also includes summaries and data about population projections.
Headline figures
- As of mid-2023, there are an estimated 1,228,671 residents in Surrey.
- The resident population of Surrey has been estimated to have grown by 1.0 per cent between mid-2022 and -2023 (11,623 residents), the same rates as the South East and England.
- The majority of the annual population growth is from international migration and internal migration (from the rest of the UK).
- Over the past 10 years, the resident population of Surrey has been estimated to have grown by 6.2 per cent in between mid-2013 and -2023 (representing 72,040 residents).
- One in every five residents are aged 65 and over in Surrey and this group has grown by 12.7 per cent between 2013 and 2023 (representing an additional 26,499 residents).
- On a whole, there are more children in Surrey than ten years ago (14,056 additional residents aged 17 and under, representing a growth of 5.6%).
- The mid-2023 population estimates for Surrey Districts and Boroughs are (in descending order):
- Reigate and Banstead - 155,985,
- Guildford - 149,176,
- Elmbridge - 140,500,
- Waverley - 132,146,
- Woking - 104,636,
- Spelthorne - 103,551,
- Surrey Heath - 92,168,
- Runnymede - 90,442,
- Tandridge - 89,409,
- Mole Valley - 88,266,
- Epsom and Ewell - 81,989.
- As of 2023, there are 739 residents per km squared in Surrey which is higher than the South East and England averages (497 and 443 respectively).
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