Cowdenbeath
TownTown in Fife, Scotland.
Cowdenbeath is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Cowdenbeath 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 6% of people in Cowdenbeath live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Cowdenbeath compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
What is the population of Cowdenbeath?
Cowdenbeath had 11,176 usual residents at the census.
Cowdenbeath is the 300th least populated of 1,209 in the UK.
Neighbourhoods in Cowdenbeath
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beath South West | 847 | No figure | No figure | 94.4% |
| Beath Woodend | 803 | No figure | No figure | 81.7% |
| Cowdenbeath Central | 823 | No figure | No figure | 98.3% |
| Cowdenbeath Foulford | 675 | No figure | No figure | 91.9% |
| Cowdenbeath Glebe | 589 | No figure | No figure | 100.0% |
| Cowdenbeath Glenfield | 457 | No figure | No figure | 97.5% |
| Cowdenbeath Netherton | 581 | No figure | No figure | 100.0% |
| Cowdenbeath North | 1,039 | No figure | No figure | 61.3% |
| Cowdenbeath North East | 638 | No figure | No figure | 83.0% |
| Cowdenbeath North West | 861 | No figure | No figure | 86.2% |
| Cowdenbeath South | 767 | No figure | No figure | 98.8% |
| Cowdenbeath South East | 788 | No figure | No figure | 69.0% |
| Cowdenbeath South West | 708 | No figure | No figure | 98.5% |
| Hill of Beath East | 747 | No figure | No figure | 98.6% |
| Hill of Beath West | 858 | No figure | No figure | 100.0% |
| Mossbank and Donibristle | 677 | No figure | No figure | 94.0% |
Your MP
- Melanie WardLabourMP for Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy
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 Cowdenbeath1
Middle areas in Cowdenbeath3
Towns near Cowdenbeath6
Cowdenbeath in brief
Cowdenbeath is a town in Fife, Scotland.
About 11,210 people lived in Cowdenbeath in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from NRS small-area estimates).
Cowdenbeath had 11,176 usual residents at the census.
About 6% of people in Cowdenbeath live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Cowdenbeath, 89.7% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Cowdenbeath, 3.8% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.