Blantyre
TownTown in South Lanarkshire, Scotland.
Blantyre is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Blantyre 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 Blantyre live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Blantyre compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
What is the population of Blantyre?
Blantyre had 15,348 usual residents at the census.
Blantyre is the 528th least populated of 1,209 in the UK.
Neighbourhoods in Blantyre
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blantyre North and Coatshill - 01 | 846 | No figure | No figure | 92.0% |
| Blantyre North and Coatshill - 02 | 580 | No figure | No figure | 95.9% |
| Blantyre North and Coatshill - 03 | 636 | No figure | No figure | 100.0% |
| Blantyre North and Coatshill - 04 | 859 | No figure | No figure | 90.1% |
| Blantyre South and Wheatlands - 01 | 718 | No figure | No figure | 99.5% |
| Blantyre South and Wheatlands - 02 | 982 | No figure | No figure | 90.8% |
| Blantyre South and Wheatlands - 03 | 644 | No figure | No figure | 94.9% |
| Blantyre South and Wheatlands - 04 | 630 | No figure | No figure | 100.0% |
| Blantyre South and Wheatlands - 05 | 397 | No figure | No figure | 100.0% |
| Blantyre South and Wheatlands - 06 | 707 | No figure | No figure | 97.8% |
| Burnbank North - 03 | 633 | No figure | No figure | 100.0% |
| Burnbank North - 05 | 669 | No figure | No figure | 99.2% |
| Burnbank North - 06 | 486 | No figure | No figure | 99.6% |
| Burnbank North - 07 | 669 | No figure | No figure | 93.5% |
| High Blantyre - 01 | 746 | No figure | No figure | 81.0% |
| High Blantyre - 02 | 454 | No figure | No figure | 100.0% |
| High Blantyre - 03 | 599 | No figure | No figure | 80.4% |
| High Blantyre - 04 | 411 | No figure | No figure | 99.3% |
| High Blantyre - 05 | 445 | No figure | No figure | 76.9% |
| High Blantyre - 06 | 396 | No figure | No figure | 100.0% |
| High Blantyre - 07 | 577 | No figure | No figure | 91.0% |
| Low Blantyre and Bardykes - 01 | 659 | No figure | No figure | 98.7% |
| Low Blantyre and Bardykes - 02 | 862 | No figure | No figure | 100.0% |
| Low Blantyre and Bardykes - 03 | 531 | No figure | No figure | 100.0% |
| Low Blantyre and Bardykes - 04 | 654 | No figure | No figure | 100.0% |
| Nerston - 01 | 870 | No figure | No figure | 96.2% |
Your MP
- Michael ShanksLabourMP for Rutherglen
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 Blantyre1
Middle areas in Blantyre5
Towns near Blantyre6
Blantyre in brief
Blantyre is a town in South Lanarkshire, Scotland.
About 15,561 people lived in Blantyre in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from NRS small-area estimates).
Blantyre had 15,348 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Blantyre live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Blantyre, 94.8% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Blantyre, 3.5% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.