The high-strength spring steel wire rod of the present invention is a steel wire rod obtained after hot rolling, the steel wire rod having a predetermined chemical component composition and a structure with a pearlite area ratio of 90% or more, and meeting the requirements of the following formulae (1) and (2) wherein Pave is an average of grain size numbers of pearlite nodules and Pà is a standard deviation thereof. 8.0 ‰¤ Pave ‰¤ 12.0 0.0 < Pà ‰¤ 0.5