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Buckie

Town

Town in Moray, Scotland.

Buckie is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Buckie 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.

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Radon Affected Area by town

Worked out by Open Index · 2022

Under 1%90% or more

About 38% of people in Buckie live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.

Population
8,676
Joint 120th least populated of 1,209
ONS Census 2021 · 2021
People in radon Affected Area squares
38%
UK 44%
Worked out by Open Index
Gigabit broadband coverage
92.4%
UK 87.8%
Ofcom · Jan 2026
Claimant rate
2.4%
UK 3.9%
ONS via Nomis · Aug 2026

How Buckie compares

Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.

BuckieMiddle
Population117 towns, Scotland · 2021
Population: every town in Scotland117 areas from 7,510 to 637,024. The middle area is 14,054. Buckie is 8,676.
8,676joint 18th least populated
People in radon Affected Area squares117 towns, Scotland · 2022
People in radon Affected Area squares: every town in Scotland117 areas from 0.0% to 100.0%. The middle area is 4.0%. Buckie is 38.0%.
38%32nd most people in radon Affected Areas
Gigabit broadband coverage117 towns, Scotland · Jan 2026
Gigabit broadband coverage: every town in Scotland117 areas from 17.5% to 99.8%. The middle area is 93.1%. Buckie is 92.4%.
92.4%52nd lowest
Claimant rate117 towns, Scotland · Aug 2026
Claimant rate: every town in Scotland117 areas from 0.7% to 6.3%. The middle area is 3.1%. Buckie is 2.4%.
2.4%joint 28th lowest

What is the population of Buckie?

Buckie had 8,676 usual residents at the census.

Buckie is the joint 120th least populated of 1,209 in the UK.

Neighbourhoods in Buckie

NamePeople (census)Recorded crime per 1,000Deprivation decileGigabit broadband
Buckie Central East - 01418No figureNo figure63.2%
Buckie Central East - 02417No figureNo figure100.0%
Buckie Central East - 03705No figureNo figure89.7%
Buckie Central East - 04632No figureNo figure96.0%
Buckie Central East - 05717No figureNo figure94.6%
Buckie Central East - 06727No figureNo figure100.0%
Buckie West, Buckpool and Mains of Buckie - 01459No figureNo figure95.3%
Buckie West, Buckpool and Mains of Buckie - 02647No figureNo figure100.0%
Buckie West, Buckpool and Mains of Buckie - 03643No figureNo figure88.1%
Buckie West, Buckpool and Mains of Buckie - 04615No figureNo figure94.3%
Buckie West, Buckpool and Mains of Buckie - 051,027No figureNo figure93.0%
Buckie West, Buckpool and Mains of Buckie - 06915No figureNo figure91.7%
Buckie West, Buckpool and Mains of Buckie - 07721No figureNo figure96.7%
Buckie West, Buckpool and Mains of Buckie - 08417No figureNo figure84.6%

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As of , from the UK Parliament Members API. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. Source: UK Parliament, Members API.

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Buckie in brief

Buckie is a town in Moray, Scotland.

About 8,736 people lived in Buckie in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from NRS small-area estimates).

Buckie had 8,676 usual residents at the census.

About 38% of people in Buckie live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.

In Buckie, 92.4% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.

In Buckie, 2.4% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.