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Population Estimates by Urban Rural Classification (2011 Data Zone based)

Population Estimates by Urban Rural Classification (2011 Data Zone based)

Last Updated: 22 August 2019

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Introduction

This section provides annual mid-year population estimates for Urban and Rural areas in Scotland. The population estimates are available for each year from 2002 up to 2014 for 2001 Data Zones, and from 2011 onwards for 2011 Data Zones, broken down by 6 and 8 fold split, single year of age and sex.

Migration flows for Urban and Rural areas in Scotland is available broken down by total in, out and net migration and 6 fold split from 2001-02 onwards.

Background (Adobe Acrobat Portable Document Format (PDF)) (128 KB)

Tables

The files below have been made available as Excel workbooks. When opening the files your browser, depending on how it has been configured, will prompt to either open the file or save it to disk. Maximum file size is 219 KB.  

Table 1

Population Estimates for 6-fold Urban Rural Classification, 2011-2018
(Excel    CSV)

Table 2

Population Estimates for 8-fold Urban Rural Classification, 2011-2018
(Excel    CSV)

Table 3 Migration Estimates for 6-fold Urban Rural Classification, 2001-02 to 2017-18
(Excel    CSV)

A brief summary of the data in these tables is included in the latest
Small Area Population Estimates report.

Maps

The latest Urban Rural Classification maps are available on the Scottish Government website.

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