Dumfries
TownTown in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland.
Dumfries is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Dumfries 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 Dumfries live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Dumfries compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
What is the population of Dumfries?
Dumfries had 31,785 usual residents at the census.
Dumfries is the 354th most populated of 1,209 in the UK.
Neighbourhoods in Dumfries
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Calside - 01 | 620 | No figure | No figure | 86.0% |
| Calside - 02 | 590 | No figure | No figure | 91.5% |
| Calside - 03 | 740 | No figure | No figure | 96.2% |
| Calside - 04 | 797 | No figure | No figure | 99.0% |
| Collin - 01 | 949 | No figure | No figure | 99.4% |
| Collin - 02 | 1,028 | No figure | No figure | 97.4% |
| Collin - 03 | 737 | No figure | No figure | 66.2% |
| Dumfries Central - 01 | 935 | No figure | No figure | 75.9% |
| Dumfries Central - 02 | 551 | No figure | No figure | 86.8% |
| Dumfries Central - 03 | 968 | No figure | No figure | 76.4% |
| Dumfries Central - 04 | 625 | No figure | No figure | 23.3% |
| Dumfries Central - 05 | 624 | No figure | No figure | 64.9% |
| Georgetown - 01 | 768 | No figure | No figure | 94.0% |
| Georgetown - 02 | 603 | No figure | No figure | 83.2% |
| Georgetown - 03 | 593 | No figure | No figure | 97.5% |
| Georgetown - 04 | 788 | No figure | No figure | 97.2% |
| Kingholm - 03 | 911 | No figure | No figure | 87.7% |
| Kingholm - 04 | 874 | No figure | No figure | 64.0% |
| Lochside and Lincluden - 01 | 515 | No figure | No figure | 98.8% |
| Lochside and Lincluden - 02 | 901 | No figure | No figure | 98.7% |
| Lochside and Lincluden - 03 | 639 | No figure | No figure | 70.6% |
| Lochside and Lincluden - 04 | 544 | No figure | No figure | 79.9% |
| Lochside and Lincluden - 05 | 708 | No figure | No figure | 70.4% |
| Lochside and Lincluden - 06 | 690 | No figure | No figure | 87.0% |
| Lochside and Lincluden - 07 | 589 | No figure | No figure | 100.0% |
| Lochside and Lincluden - 08 | 769 | No figure | No figure | 99.7% |
| Lochside and Lincluden - 09 | 516 | No figure | No figure | 100.0% |
| New Abbey - 01 | 1,057 | No figure | No figure | 94.1% |
| Nunholm - 01 | 665 | No figure | No figure | 81.0% |
| Nunholm - 02 | 873 | No figure | No figure | 88.8% |
| Nunholm - 03 | 959 | No figure | No figure | 93.5% |
| Nunholm - 04 | 671 | No figure | No figure | 99.5% |
| Summerville - 01 | 661 | No figure | No figure | 100.0% |
| Summerville - 02 | 478 | No figure | No figure | 100.0% |
| Summerville - 03 | 794 | No figure | No figure | 97.1% |
| Summerville - 04 | 972 | No figure | No figure | 96.3% |
| Summerville - 05 | 617 | No figure | No figure | 91.6% |
| Summerville - 06 | 1,168 | No figure | No figure | 96.6% |
| Summerville - 07 | 920 | No figure | No figure | 97.4% |
| Summerville - 08 | 784 | No figure | No figure | 92.5% |
| Troqueer - 01 | 825 | No figure | No figure | 98.4% |
| Troqueer - 02 | 698 | No figure | No figure | 90.6% |
| Troqueer - 03 | 630 | No figure | No figure | 95.4% |
| Troqueer - 04 | 546 | No figure | No figure | 100.0% |
| Troqueer - 05 | 621 | No figure | No figure | 90.3% |
Your MP
- John CooperConservativeMP for Dumfries and Galloway
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Council1
Postcode districts covering Dumfries2
Middle areas in Dumfries8
Towns near Dumfries1
Dumfries in brief
Dumfries is a town in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland.
About 31,968 people lived in Dumfries in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from NRS small-area estimates).
Dumfries had 31,785 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Dumfries live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Dumfries, 86.3% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Dumfries, 3.2% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.