Shortlees
Middle areaThe north west of the East Ayrshire. 4,464 people (mid-2024 estimate) in 1.5 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by middle area
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 0% of people in Shortlees live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
Recorded crime in Shortlees
Scotland publishes recorded crime by council. It has its own layers.
How Shortlees compares
Each dot is a middle area. The black line marks the middle one.
What is the population of Shortlees?
Shortlees had 4,408 usual residents at the census.
Shortlees is the 1,721st least populated of 9,448 in the UK.
Figures for the whole of East Ayrshire
These figures are published for the whole of East Ayrshire, not for each middle area, so they describe all of East Ayrshire and not Shortlees alone. See East Ayrshire
Shortlees in brief
Shortlees had 4,408 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Shortlees live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Shortlees, 98.7% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Shortlees, 6.8% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.