Bishopton
TownTown in Renfrewshire, Scotland.
Bishopton is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Bishopton 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 0% of people in Bishopton live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Bishopton compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
What is the population of Bishopton?
Bishopton had 9,451 usual residents at the census.
Bishopton is the 199th least populated of 1,209 in the UK.
Neighbourhoods in Bishopton
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bishopton - 01 | 911 | No figure | No figure | 94.8% |
| Bishopton - 02 | 682 | No figure | No figure | 100.0% |
| Bishopton - 03 | 722 | No figure | No figure | 100.0% |
| Bishopton - 04 | 712 | No figure | No figure | 96.3% |
| Bishopton - 05 | 750 | No figure | No figure | 94.6% |
| Bishopton - 06 | 714 | No figure | No figure | 88.0% |
| Dargavel - 01 | 804 | No figure | No figure | 99.4% |
| Dargavel - 02 | 869 | No figure | No figure | 99.7% |
| Dargavel - 03 | 775 | No figure | No figure | 100.0% |
| Dargavel - 04 | 762 | No figure | No figure | 100.0% |
| Dargavel - 05 | 766 | No figure | No figure | 100.0% |
| Dargavel - 06 | 969 | No figure | No figure | 100.0% |
Your MP
- Alison TaylorLabourMP for Paisley and Renfrewshire North
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 Bishopton1
Middle areas in Bishopton2
Towns near Bishopton6
Bishopton in brief
Bishopton is a town in Renfrewshire, Scotland.
About 10,007 people lived in Bishopton in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from NRS small-area estimates).
Bishopton had 9,451 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Bishopton live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Bishopton, 98.1% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Bishopton, 0.7% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.