Dunbar
TownTown in East Lothian, Scotland.
Dunbar is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Dunbar 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 100% of people in Dunbar live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Dunbar compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
What is the population of Dunbar?
Dunbar had 9,726 usual residents at the census.
Dunbar is the 221st least populated of 1,209 in the UK.
Neighbourhoods in Dunbar
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dunbar East - 01 | 555 | No figure | No figure | 89.7% |
| Dunbar East - 02 | 865 | No figure | No figure | 92.4% |
| Dunbar East - 03 | 768 | No figure | No figure | 98.1% |
| Dunbar East - 04 | 737 | No figure | No figure | 94.3% |
| Dunbar East - 05 | 563 | No figure | No figure | 99.0% |
| Dunbar East - 06 | 839 | No figure | No figure | 100.0% |
| Dunbar West - 01 | 624 | No figure | No figure | 100.0% |
| Dunbar West - 02 | 661 | No figure | No figure | 100.0% |
| Dunbar West - 03 | 779 | No figure | No figure | 100.0% |
| Dunbar West - 05 | 682 | No figure | No figure | 99.5% |
| Dunbar West - 06 | 775 | No figure | No figure | 99.7% |
| Dunbar West - 07 | 846 | No figure | No figure | 99.5% |
| Dunbar West - 08 | 915 | No figure | No figure | 88.0% |
| East Linton and Rural - 07 | 661 | No figure | No figure | 100.0% |
Your MP
- Mr Douglas AlexanderLabour (Co-op)MP for Lothian East
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 Dunbar1
Middle areas in Dunbar2
Towns near Dunbar5
Dunbar in brief
Dunbar is a town in East Lothian, Scotland.
About 9,821 people lived in Dunbar in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from NRS small-area estimates).
Dunbar had 9,726 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Dunbar live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Dunbar, 96.2% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Dunbar, 2.4% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.