Chart and table of population level and growth rate for the Edinburgh, UK metro area from 1950 to 2025.

In 2023, there were approximately 631,970 people living in Glasgow, with a further 523,250 people living in the Scottish capital, Edinburgh, the first and second most-populated Scottish council areas respectively. The region of Fife is also heavily populated, with approximately 373,210 people living there. The least populated areas are the islands of Scotland such as Orkney, estimated to have only 22,000 people there.

Citywide analysis of the Census 2011 Edinburgh results Additional metadata: - Licence: http://reference.data.gov.uk/id/open-government-licence

This data is sourced from the Census 2011 and shows the population and population density by council area. Raw data sourced from http://www.scotlandscensus.gov.uk/en/censusresults/downloadablefiles.html and then manipulated in excel to merge a number of tables. The resulting data was joined to a shapefile of Scottish Council areas from sharegeo (http://www.sharegeo.ac.uk/handle/10672/305). Both sources should be attributed as the sources of the base data. GIS vector data. This dataset was first accessioned in the EDINA ShareGeo Open repository on 2012-12-19 and migrated to Edinburgh DataShare on 2017-02-21.

This dataset shows the population data collected for the 2011 Census mapped against Counties, Unitary Authorities, and Local Authority Districts. Fields include, total population, break down by sex, households, population in communal living, school boarders and population density for census areas. This data was sourced from the ONS website. http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/census/2011-census/key-statistics-for-local-authorities-in-england-and-wales/index.html It has been combined with the 2011 census area boundary dataset that can also be found on the ONS website. All re-use of this data should acknowledge the OSN as the source of the data. GIS vector data. This dataset was first accessioned in the EDINA ShareGeo Open repository on 2012-12-11 and migrated to Edinburgh DataShare on 2017-02-21.

GB mid year population estimates by Local Authority from 1981 - 2009. Mid year estimates reflect the population at 30 June of the reference year. Population data was downloaded from Nomis (www.nomisweb.co.uk/) and joined to Local Authority (district, unitary authority and borough) boundaries downloaded from Ordnance Survey OpenData Boundary Line dataset and joined using ArcGIS. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v1.0. GIS vector data. This dataset was first accessioned in the EDINA ShareGeo Open repository on 2010-11-11 and migrated to Edinburgh DataShare on 2017-02-21.

Scotland’s population was estimated to be 5,479,900 at mid-2021 (30 June 2021). The population increased by 13,900 people (0.25%) in the year to mid-2021. The average annual growth in the 5 years before the pandemic was higher than this, at around 23,100 people (0.43%). There have been more deaths than births for the last seven years. In the latest year, deaths outnumbered births by the largest amount on record. Migration was the main driver of population growth over the latest year. More people moved to Scotland than left, as has been the case for the last two decades. The pattern of population change was different to previous years. In the latest year, the population of the largest cities fell, which was a change from growth in previous years. The greatest population growth was in council areas around Edinburgh. In addition, many rural areas which had previously had falling populations saw an increase in population over the latest year.

Dundee City's crime rate of *** crimes per 10,000 people was the highest of any region of Scotland in 2023/24. The rate for the whole of Scotland was *** per 10,000 people, which appears to be driven by low crime in places such as the Orkney and Shetland Islands, with almost all Scottish cities reporting higher than average crime rates. In Glasgow, Scotland's largest city, the crime rate was *** crimes per 10,000 people, while in the Scottish capital, Edinburgh, the crime rate was *** per 10,000 population. Comparisons with the rest of the UK When compared with the rest of the United Kingdom, Scotland has experienced a noticeable decline in its overall crime rate. In 2008/09 for example, Scotland's crime rate was higher than that of England and Wales, as well as Northern Ireland, the other two jurisdictions in the UK. In 2022/23, however, Scotland's crime rate was the lowest in the UK, with the crime rate in England and Wales rising noticeably during the same period. Scotland's homicide rate has also fallen, from being the highest in the UK in 2002/03, to the lowest as of 2022/23. Theft and fraud drive recent crime uptick There was a slight increase in the number of crimes recorded by the Scottish police in 2023/24, when compared with the previous year. Although many other types of crimes declined during this reporting year, the number of theft offences has increased, reaching ******* offences in 2023/24. Fraud crime has also increased significantly in recent years, with ****** offences in 2022/23, compared with just ***** in 2014/15. The recent uptick in fraud and theft offences is also reflected in the jurisdiction England and Wales.

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The objects of the project were,
1. To draw a two per cent systematic stratified cluster sample from the enumerators' books; the cluster unit is the settlement for settlements of less than 2,000 population (England and Wales only), twenty successive individuals in every 1,000 (adjusted so that families are not broken up) for institutions, and one enumerators book in fifty for the rest of the country.
2. To prepare a complete machine-readable transcript of the roughly 400,000 individual entries resulting from the sample.
3. To code the data by computer into standardised numerical form using specially developed coding directories and appropriate coding software.
4. To prepare a number of data sets in appropriate formats for use with standard data analysis packages.
5. To employ the data set via package or other software to explore various salient aspects of the nineteenth century social and economic structure at national, regional, occupational and other levels of analysis and to write up the results for publication.
6. To make available to interested parties data sets of a kind suitable for their purposes whether in the form of transcripts, coded data sets in various formats, photocopies of partially processed data and so on.
7. To produce special tabulations for interested scholars (subject to constraints of time and computing resources) and to assist others in doing tabulation or preparing their own software to access the data.
8. To make available ancillary products of the data set such as coding directories, code books etc.
9. To act as a centre of expertise in problems of census analysis and of the National Sample data sets.
Main Topics:

Variables
Name, address, relationship to head of family, marital status, age, sex, occupation, place of birth, whether blind or deaf and dumb.

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The UK censuses took place on 29th April 2001. They were run by the Northern Ireland Statistics & Research Agency (NISRA), General Register Office for Scotland (GROS), and the Office for National Statistics (ONS) for both England and Wales. The UK comprises the countries of England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

Statistics from the UK censuses help paint a picture of the nation and how we live. They provide a detailed snapshot of the population and its characteristics, and underpin funding allocation to provide public services.

Census Support provides digitised boundary datasets of the UK, available in many Geographic Information System (GIS) formats. Most of these data are available as Open data under OGL v3 license. Postcode directories are also available although some of these are restricted to members of the academic community under 'Special Conditions'.

There are many digitised boundaries available. The main group of boundaries correspond to the various levels of 2011, 2001, 1991, 1981 and 1971 census geography which are designed to be used for spatial visualisation and analysis of census statistics. Also available are historic boundaries created by the Great Britain Historical GIS Project, held at the UK Data Archive under GN 33288 Great Britain Historical Database, 1841-1939.

Main Topics:
Accommodation type (brief)Accommodation type (detailed)
Adults, Number Employed in Household
Adults, Number in Household
Age
Age of Family Reference Person (FRP)
Age of Household Reference Person (HRP)
Age of Students and Schoolchildren
Amenities
Armed Forces
Bath/Shower and Toilet, use of
Care (unpaid), Provision of
Care, Provision of
Carers and their Economic Activity, Number of
Cars and vans
Central heating
Children
Children, dependent
Communal Establishment Residents
Communal establishment, combined type and management
Concealed families
Country of birth
Country of Birth (additional categories)
Daytime Population
Dwelling Type
Economic Activity
Economic Activity of Associated People Resident in Households
Economic Activity of Full-time students
Economic Activity of Household Reference Person (HRP)
Ethnic group (England and Wales)
Ethnic group (England and Wales) of Household Reference Person
Family composition
Family status
Family type
Health, General
Hours worked
Household composition
Household composition (alternative classification)
Household dependent children
Household deprivation
Household Reference Person indicator
Household size
Household Space Type
Household Type
Households with students away during term-time
Industry
Industry, former
Limiting long-term illness
Limiting Long-Term Illness (LLTI), Household residents with
Limiting long-Term Illness, number of people with in household
Living arrangements
Living arrangements of Household Reference Person (HRP)
Lowest floor level
Marital status
Migration (armed forces)
Migration (Communal establishment)
Migration (People)
Multiple ethnic identifier
Occupancy Rating
Occupation (brief)
Occupation (detailed)
Occupation, former
Pensioner household
People aged 17 or over in household, Number of
Population Type
Public transport users in households
Qualifications (England and Wales)
Qualifications, highest level of (England and Wales)
Qualifications, professional
Religion (England and Wales)
Religion (England and Wales) of Household Reference Person
Resident Basis
Resident Type
Rooms in a dwelling, number of
Rooms, Number of
Rooms, Persons per
Sex
Sex of Household Reference Person (HRP)
Single Adult Households
Social Grade of Household Reference Person (HRP), approximated
Social Grade, approximated
Socio-economic Classification (NS-SeC)
Socio-economic Classification (NS-SeC) of Household Reference Person (HRP)Socio-economic Classification (NS-SeC) of Household Reference Person (HRP), Main categories of
Student accommodation (Standard Output)
Student accommodation Type
Student status
Tenure
Tenure, dwelling
Time Since Last Worked
Travel to Work, distance
Travel to work, Means of
Travel to Work, Method of and Number of Employed People
Working Parents
Year last worked

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This dataset contains measurements from eleven traits on 285 plants that were grown in a randomised block designed common garden trial at the UKCEH Edinburgh. Seedlings were grown from seed during 2015-2018, and the traits were measured in December 2020. The trees are from sixteen different populations across the UK. Variables measured include: stem length, stem diameter, stem angle, main stem branches, needle length and width, extension, number of stems, number of internodes, length of internodes, and total spread. This data was gathered as part of a project on juniper conservation genetics that also includes an analysis of the population genetics of UK junipers. The main goal of the project is to evaluate the standing genetic variation of populations using both quantitative and population genetic analyses.

Between 2019/20 and 2023/24 there have been 47 homicide cases in the Glasgow City local authority area of Scotland, the most of any Scottish local authority in that time period. The City of Edinburgh had the second-highest number of homicides, at 24, while there were zero homicides in the Outer Hebrides.

In 2023, the number of overseas resident visits to the United Kingdom totaled 38 million, representing a growth of over 20 percent from the previous year. The figure was projected to reach 38.7 million in 2024. Has the UK’s tourism industry completely recovered from the coronavirus pandemic? Like in most countries, the travel restrictions put in place to stem the spread of the coronavirus wreaked havoc on the UK’s tourism industry. Overseas visitor numbers dropped to 7.1 million in 2021, representing a drop of over 80 percent from 2019. While the figure reported for 2023 showed a continued recovery in terms of overseas visitors to the UK, it remained below pre-pandemic levels. However, in terms of spending among the UK’s leading inbound travel markets, most overseas visitors spent more in 2023 than in 2019, with visitors from the UK’s leading inbound travel market, the United States, spending around 50 percent more during their travels than in 2019. What are the most visited cities in the UK? Unsurprisingly, London consistently ranked as the most visited town or city in the UK among international tourists in recent years, drawing in 20.27 million visitors in 2023. This was around tenfold the number of the second-most visited city, Edinburgh, which received 2.32 million visitors during the same year. As the UK’s capital city, London’s tourist attractions are as varied as the city itself; however, one particularly strong draw for inbound visitors is Royal Family-related tourism. This is evident with the top two most visited paid tourist attractions in England being based in London and either belonging to the Royal Family or being run by a Royal-affiliated charity. Meanwhile, among UK residents, London ranks as the second most popular destination for a summer staycation, with the South West ranking first.