Selkirk
Middle areaCentral Scottish Borders. 5,395 people (mid-2024 estimate) in 3.2 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by middle area
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 63% of people in Selkirk live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
Recorded crime in Selkirk
Scotland publishes recorded crime by council. It has its own layers.
How Selkirk compares
Each dot is a middle area. The black line marks the middle one.
What is the population of Selkirk?
Selkirk had 5,517 usual residents at the census.
Selkirk is the joint 2,208th least populated of 9,448 in the UK.
Figures for the whole of Scottish Borders
These figures are published for the whole of Scottish Borders, not for each middle area, so they describe all of Scottish Borders and not Selkirk alone. See Scottish Borders
Selkirk in brief
Selkirk had 5,517 usual residents at the census.
About 63% of people in Selkirk live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Selkirk, 98.0% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Selkirk, 4.3% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.