Bo'ness
TownTown in Falkirk, Scotland.
Bo'ness is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Bo'ness 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 Bo'ness live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Bo'ness compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
What is the population of Bo'ness?
Bo'ness had 13,561 usual residents at the census.
Bo'ness is the 435th least populated of 1,209 in the UK.
Neighbourhoods in Bo'ness
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blackness, Bo'ness - Carriden and Grahamsdyke - 02 | 883 | No figure | No figure | 99.2% |
| Blackness, Bo'ness - Carriden and Grahamsdyke - 03 | 998 | No figure | No figure | 98.4% |
| Blackness, Bo'ness - Carriden and Grahamsdyke - 04 | 653 | No figure | No figure | 93.9% |
| Blackness, Bo'ness - Carriden and Grahamsdyke - 05 | 538 | No figure | No figure | 99.7% |
| Blackness, Bo'ness - Carriden and Grahamsdyke - 06 | 1,027 | No figure | No figure | 99.8% |
| Bo'ness - Kinneil - 01 | 919 | No figure | No figure | 100.0% |
| Bo'ness - Kinneil - 02 | 782 | No figure | No figure | 89.8% |
| Bo'ness - Kinneil - 03 | 778 | No figure | No figure | 96.6% |
| Bo'ness - Kinneil - 04 | 816 | No figure | No figure | 98.7% |
| Bo'ness - Kinneil - 05 | 1,004 | No figure | No figure | 99.8% |
| Bo'ness - Newtown - 01 | 669 | No figure | No figure | 96.1% |
| Bo'ness - Newtown - 02 | 808 | No figure | No figure | 98.1% |
| Bo'ness - Newtown - 03 | 606 | No figure | No figure | 100.0% |
| Bo'ness - Newtown - 04 | 481 | No figure | No figure | 99.6% |
| Bo'ness - Newtown - 05 | 893 | No figure | No figure | 98.7% |
| Bo'ness - town centre - 01 | 475 | No figure | No figure | 99.6% |
| Bo'ness - town centre - 02 | 806 | No figure | No figure | 99.7% |
| Bo'ness - town centre - 03 | 642 | No figure | No figure | 70.0% |
| Bo'ness - town centre - 04 | 444 | No figure | No figure | 94.1% |
| Bo'ness - town centre - 05 | 645 | No figure | No figure | 85.3% |
Your MP
- Kirsteen SullivanLabour (Co-op)MP for Bathgate and Linlithgow
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 Bo'ness1
Middle areas in Bo'ness4
Towns near Bo'ness6
Bo'ness in brief
Bo'ness is a town in Falkirk, Scotland.
About 13,547 people lived in Bo'ness in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from NRS small-area estimates).
Bo'ness had 13,561 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Bo'ness live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Bo'ness, 96.1% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Bo'ness, 2.6% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.