List of Scottish council areas by population

This is a list of council areas of Scotland ordered by population.The populations of these Scottish council areas are mid-year estimates for 2010 from the Office for National Statistics.

Rank Council area Population
1 City of Glasgow 592,800
2 City of Edinburgh 486,100
3 Fife 365,000
4 North Lanarkshire 326,400
5 South Lanarkshire 311,900
6 Aberdeenshire 245,800
7 Highland 221,600
8 City of Aberdeen 217,100
9 West Lothian 172,100
10 Renfrewshire 170,300
11 Falkirk 153,300
12 Dumfries and Galloway 148,200
13 Perth and Kinross 147,800
14 City of Dundee 144,300
15 North Ayrshire 135,200
16 East Ayrshire 120,200
17 Scottish Borders 112,900
18 South Ayrshire 111,400
19 Angus 110,600
20 East Dunbartonshire 104,600
21 East Lothian 97,500
22 West Dunbartonshire 90,600
23 Stirling 89,900
24 East Renfrewshire 89,500
25 Argyll and Bute 89,200
26 Moray 87,700
27 Midlothian 81,100
28 Inverclyde 79,800
29 Clackmannanshire 50,600
30 Na h-Eileanan Siar (Western Isles) 26,200
31 Shetland Islands 22,400
32 Orkney Islands 20,100

References

"Table 8a Mid-2010 Population Estimates: Selected age groups for local authorities in the United Kingdom; estimated resident population.". Population Estimates for UK, England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, Mid-2010. Office for National Statistics. 3 June 2011. http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/publications/re-reference-tables.html?edition=tcm%3A77-231847. Retrieved 1 October 2011. 

See also