The Inch
Middle areaEast Edinburgh. 5,047 people (mid-2024 estimate) in 1.1 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by middle area
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 0% of people in The Inch live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
Recorded crime in The Inch
Scotland publishes recorded crime by council. It has its own layers.
How The Inch compares
Each dot is a middle area. The black line marks the middle one.
What is the population of The Inch?
The Inch had 4,945 usual residents at the census.
The Inch is the joint 1,908th least populated of 9,448 in the UK.
Figures for the whole of Edinburgh
These figures are published for the whole of Edinburgh, not for each middle area, so they describe all of Edinburgh and not The Inch alone. See Edinburgh
The Inch in brief
The Inch had 4,945 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in The Inch live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In The Inch, 99.0% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In The Inch, 3.9% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.