Glasgow remains Scotland’s largest city by council-area population, while Edinburgh has recorded faster long-term growth. Compare population totals, migration context, age patterns and older projections for 2032.
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Glasgow has Scotland’s youngest council-area age profile, Edinburgh is next, and Dumfries and Galloway has the oldest. This guide explains the divide across all 32 council areas, the role of student populations and migration, and how Scotland’s 65-and-over population has grown.
Scotland gained almost 378,000 people between the 2001 and 2022 censuses, but the change was sharply uneven. See the population shift in all 32 council areas, from East Lothian’s rapid growth to long-term decline in Inverclyde, Argyll and Bute and West Dunbartonshire.
A practical guide to choosing where to move in Scotland using population, migration, age-profile and density data, with a closer look at East Lothian, Midlothian, Glasgow, South Lanarkshire, Highland and Orkney.