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Edinburgh History
Population
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Edinburgh
- An Expanding City |
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One reason for the
increase in Edinburgh's population has been the expanding
boundaries of the City. In early times, Edinburgh was a very
small town within the city's walls.
The lower part of the
Royal Mile,
below the Netherbow, including
Holyrood Palace and Abbey was in the borough of Canongate -
not Edinburgh.
The city now extends:
- to the North
to include
Cramond,
Granton,
Newhaven and
Leith.
- to the
south towards the Pentland Hills
- to the west to include
South Queensferry
- to the east to include
Portobello. |
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Population
18th Century |
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1755 |
Edinburgh and Leith: = 57,195. |
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1791 |
Edinburgh and
Leith: = 81,865,
comprising:
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22,512 |
Old
Town (within the walls) |
| 7,206 |
New Town |
| 1,000 |
Hospitals |
| 6,200 |
Canongate (suburbs) |
| 32,947 |
St Cuthbert's parish (and
S + W suburbs) |
| 12,000 |
Leith (N + S)
approx |
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[
Edinburgh in the Nineteenth Century: 1901]
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Population
19th Century |
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1811 |
Edinburgh was
reported to be the 3rd largest in Britain:
1 = London
2 = Glasgow: 108,890
3 = Edinburgh:
103,143 (=44,290 males + 5,853
females)
4 = Manchester: 98,573
5 = Liverpool: 98,371 |
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1821 |
Population from last year's
census:
138,235, including
26,000 in Leith |
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1831 |
Edinburgh and Leith, 162,403 |
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1841 |
Edinburgh,
133,692 ( =
58,642 males + 75,050 females)
Leith, 26,026. |
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1851 |
Edinburgh (royalty)
= 66,914
Edinburgh (St Cuthbert's + Canongate) = 98,713
Leith
= 30,676
TOTAL =
191,303 |
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1881 |
Edinburgh:
222,059
(an increase of 31,071 in 10 years)
Leith:
55,330 (an increase
of 18,730 in 10 years) |
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1891 |
Edinburgh: 269,407
(= 122,921 males + 146,486 females)
including Portobello, and so
presumably also including Leith. |
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[
Edinburgh in the Nineteenth Century: 1901]
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Population
20th Century |
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1991 |
Edinburgh:
439,660 |
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[General
Register Office (Scotland)] |
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Population
21st Century |
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2001 |
Edinburgh:
449,020
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2005 |
Edinburgh:
453,760
(projected)) |
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2010 |
Edinburgh:
468,448
(projected) |
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2015 |
Edinburgh:
478,346
(projected) |
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2020 |
Edinburgh:
489,139
(projected) |
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2024 |
Edinburgh:
497,319
(projected) |
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The Scottish Executive predicts
that over the 20 years to 2024:
- 70,000 jobs will be created in Edinburgh
- the population of Edinburgh will rise by about 44,000 to
497,319
- the population of East Lothian will rise by over 11,000 to
103,041
- the population of West Lothian will rise by about 32,000 to
194,439
- the populations of Aberdeen, Dundee and Glasgow will fall. |
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The 2001 figure has been provided by the General Register Office
(Scotland)
The projections: Scottish Executive figures based on 2004
population. Edin. Evening News Dec 21, 2005, p.7 |
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