Ellon
TownTown in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
Ellon is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Ellon 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 Ellon live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Ellon compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
What is the population of Ellon?
Ellon had 9,419 usual residents at the census.
Ellon is the 197th least populated of 1,209 in the UK.
Neighbourhoods in Ellon
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ellon East - 01 | 652 | No figure | No figure | 91.4% |
| Ellon East - 02 | 718 | No figure | No figure | 79.4% |
| Ellon East - 03 | 689 | No figure | No figure | 78.0% |
| Ellon East - 04 | 953 | No figure | No figure | 99.7% |
| Ellon East - 05 | 942 | No figure | No figure | 100.0% |
| Ellon East - 06 | 812 | No figure | No figure | 28.0% |
| Ellon East - 07 | 643 | No figure | No figure | 76.5% |
| Ellon East - 08 | 684 | No figure | No figure | 68.8% |
| Ellon West - 01 | 454 | No figure | No figure | 77.0% |
| Ellon West - 02 | 557 | No figure | No figure | 61.9% |
| Ellon West - 03 | 613 | No figure | No figure | 99.3% |
| Ellon West - 04 | 419 | No figure | No figure | 16.5% |
| Ellon West - 05 | 833 | No figure | No figure | 71.3% |
| Ellon West - 06 | 651 | No figure | No figure | 93.5% |
| Ellon West - 07 | 510 | No figure | No figure | 85.1% |
Your MP
- Harriet CrossConservativeMP for Gordon and Buchan
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 Ellon1
Middle areas in Ellon2
Towns near Ellon4
Ellon in brief
Ellon is a town in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
About 9,316 people lived in Ellon in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from NRS small-area estimates).
Ellon had 9,419 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Ellon live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Ellon, 75.7% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Ellon, 1.5% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.