Ardrossan
TownTown in North Ayrshire, Scotland.
Ardrossan is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Ardrossan add up the census output areas (or, for claimants, the neighbourhoods) that sit mostly inside it, so they are close to, but not exactly, the town’s own.
Radon Affected Area by town
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 10% of people in Ardrossan live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Ardrossan compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
What is the population of Ardrossan?
Ardrossan had 9,420 usual residents at the census.
Ardrossan is the 198th least populated of 1,209 in the UK.
Neighbourhoods in Ardrossan
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ardrossan Central - 01 | 913 | No figure | No figure | 89.8% |
| Ardrossan Central - 02 | 742 | No figure | No figure | 57.8% |
| Ardrossan Central - 03 | 555 | No figure | No figure | 91.9% |
| Ardrossan Central - 04 | 717 | No figure | No figure | 95.5% |
| Ardrossan North East - 01 | 1,008 | No figure | No figure | 98.3% |
| Ardrossan North East - 02 | 872 | No figure | No figure | 99.3% |
| Ardrossan North East - 03 | 705 | No figure | No figure | 100.0% |
| Ardrossan North East - 04 | 834 | No figure | No figure | 94.3% |
| Ardrossan North East - 05 | 811 | No figure | No figure | 100.0% |
| Ardrossan North West - 01 | 1,011 | No figure | No figure | 83.2% |
| Ardrossan North West - 02 | 780 | No figure | No figure | 99.7% |
| Ardrossan North West - 03 | 714 | No figure | No figure | 93.7% |
| Ardrossan North West - 04 | 668 | No figure | No figure | 98.1% |
Your MP
- Irene CampbellLabourMP for North Ayrshire and Arran
As of , from the UK Parliament Members API. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. Source: UK Parliament, Members API.
Council1
Postcode districts covering Ardrossan1
Middle areas in Ardrossan3
Towns near Ardrossan6
Ardrossan in brief
Ardrossan is a town in North Ayrshire, Scotland.
About 9,250 people lived in Ardrossan in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from NRS small-area estimates).
Ardrossan had 9,420 usual residents at the census.
About 10% of people in Ardrossan live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Ardrossan, 90.1% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Ardrossan, 5.4% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.