Scottish Cities

Residents born outside the UK in selected Scottish cities
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Edinburgh and Aberdeen have the highest percentages of residents born outside the UK, 24% and 22%, respectively, in 2020/21. Glasgow's has a lower figure of 14%.

There has been a steady rise in the number and percentage of Scotland’s population born outside the UK since the early 2000s. This trend has also been seen in Scotland’s largest cities, in which the proportions of non-UK born residents are higher than average.

In Scotland people from the EU make up roughly half of non-UK nationals and Poles make up the largest grouping of non-UK nationals.    

Notes

The figures presented are estimates based on survey data and exclude certain population groups (students in halls who do not have a UK resident parent and people in most other types of communal establishments e.g. hotels, boarding houses, hostels and mobile home sites).

These estimates are more recent than the Census based trends shown elsewhere on this site.

The data used in these charts were originally published by National Records of Scotland.