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Erskine

Town

Town in Renfrewshire, Scotland.

Erskine is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Erskine 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 0% of people in Erskine live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.

Population
13,834
448th least populated of 1,209
ONS Census 2021 · 2021
People in radon Affected Area squares
0%
UK 44%
Worked out by Open Index
Gigabit broadband coverage
97.5%
UK 87.8%
Ofcom · Jan 2026
Claimant rate
1.9%
UK 3.9%
ONS via Nomis · Aug 2026

How Erskine compares

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

ErskineMiddle
Population117 towns, Scotland · 2021
Population: every town in Scotland117 areas from 7,510 to 637,024. The middle area is 14,054. Erskine is 13,834.
13,83457th 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%. Erskine is 0.0%.
0%joint fewest 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%. Erskine is 97.5%.
97.5%12th highest
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%. Erskine is 1.9%.
1.9%19th lowest

What is the population of Erskine?

Erskine had 13,834 usual residents at the census.

Erskine is the 448th least populated of 1,209 in the UK.

Neighbourhoods in Erskine

NamePeople (census)Recorded crime per 1,000Deprivation decileGigabit broadband
Erskine Central - 01683No figureNo figure99.4%
Erskine Central - 02828No figureNo figure89.9%
Erskine Central - 04586No figureNo figure100.0%
Erskine Central - 05707No figureNo figure100.0%
Erskine Central - 06555No figureNo figure100.0%
Erskine Central - 07692No figureNo figure97.8%
Erskine East and Inchinnan - 01570No figureNo figure91.1%
Erskine East and Inchinnan - 02576No figureNo figure97.6%
Erskine East and Inchinnan - 03499No figureNo figure100.0%
Erskine East and Inchinnan - 04693No figureNo figure92.3%
Erskine East and Inchinnan - 05558No figureNo figure100.0%
Erskine East and Inchinnan - 06566No figureNo figure100.0%
Erskine East and Inchinnan - 07479No figureNo figure100.0%
Erskine East and Inchinnan - 081,020No figureNo figure100.0%
Erskine East and Inchinnan - 09499No figureNo figure89.6%
Erskine West - 01652No figureNo figure99.6%
Erskine West - 02612No figureNo figure100.0%
Erskine West - 03769No figureNo figure100.0%
Erskine West - 04915No figureNo figure98.3%
Erskine West - 051,028No figureNo figure100.0%
Erskine West - 06743No figureNo figure100.0%
Erskine West - 07767No figureNo figure97.1%

Your MP

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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Postcode districts covering Erskine2

Middle areas in Erskine3

Towns near Erskine6

Erskine in brief

Erskine is a town in Renfrewshire, Scotland.

About 14,047 people lived in Erskine in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from NRS small-area estimates).

Erskine had 13,834 usual residents at the census.

About 0% of people in Erskine live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.

In Erskine, 97.5% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.

In Erskine, 1.9% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.