Kirkcaldy
TownTown in Fife, Scotland.
Kirkcaldy is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Kirkcaldy 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 Kirkcaldy live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Kirkcaldy compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
What is the population of Kirkcaldy?
Kirkcaldy had 47,956 usual residents at the census.
Kirkcaldy is the 230th most populated of 1,209 in the UK.
Neighbourhoods in Kirkcaldy
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bennochy Balfour | 574 | No figure | No figure | 93.6% |
| Bennochy East | 725 | No figure | No figure | 99.6% |
| Bennochy North | 849 | No figure | No figure | 98.8% |
| Bennochy South West | 789 | No figure | No figure | 100.0% |
| Bennochy West | 688 | No figure | No figure | 97.2% |
| Blackcraigs and West Torbain | 776 | No figure | No figure | 100.0% |
| Braehead and the Path | 570 | No figure | No figure | 47.1% |
| Capshard | 891 | No figure | No figure | 100.0% |
| Chapel | 830 | No figure | No figure | 82.8% |
| Chapel Moss | 943 | No figure | No figure | 95.3% |
| Chapel Moss West | 753 | No figure | No figure | 93.7% |
| Chapelhill and Torbain | 785 | No figure | No figure | 96.2% |
| Chapelwood | 1,018 | No figure | No figure | 87.9% |
| Craigmount and Greenloanings | 697 | No figure | No figure | 99.1% |
| Dunearn | 904 | No figure | No figure | 88.5% |
| Dunnikier Central | 737 | No figure | No figure | 98.4% |
| Dunnikier East | 559 | No figure | No figure | 99.6% |
| Dunnikier North West | 648 | No figure | No figure | 100.0% |
| Dunnikier South | 677 | No figure | No figure | 93.6% |
| Dysart Central | 901 | No figure | No figure | 96.1% |
| Dysart North | 501 | No figure | No figure | 99.7% |
| Dysart North East | 565 | No figure | No figure | 98.6% |
| Fair Isle | 674 | No figure | No figure | 99.4% |
| Fair Isle North | 668 | No figure | No figure | 100.0% |
| Forth Park | 600 | No figure | No figure | 83.7% |
| Forth Park North | 848 | No figure | No figure | 99.8% |
| Gallatown North | 609 | No figure | No figure | 99.2% |
| Gallatown West | 848 | No figure | No figure | 92.1% |
| Hayfield North | 570 | No figure | No figure | 85.8% |
| Hayfield South | 555 | No figure | No figure | 98.9% |
| Kirkcaldy Central | 973 | No figure | No figure | 58.2% |
| Kirkcaldy Central North | 803 | No figure | No figure | 89.7% |
| Kirkcaldy Central South | 791 | No figure | No figure | 76.8% |
| Kirkcaldy Central and East | 862 | No figure | No figure | 93.7% |
| Kirkcaldy Mitchelston | 623 | No figure | No figure | 71.8% |
| Kirkcaldy Valley East | 920 | No figure | No figure | 98.2% |
| Kirkcaldy Valley West | 646 | No figure | No figure | 100.0% |
| Kirkcaldy Viewforth | 591 | No figure | No figure | 95.7% |
| Linktown Central | 875 | No figure | No figure | 88.0% |
| Linktown East | 583 | No figure | No figure | 89.5% |
| Linktown North | 910 | No figure | No figure | 91.9% |
| Linktown South and Seafield North | 836 | No figure | No figure | 98.6% |
| Newliston | 645 | No figure | No figure | 99.3% |
| Oriel and Forth | 896 | No figure | No figure | 91.2% |
| Overton | 800 | No figure | No figure | 99.8% |
| Pathhead Central | 619 | No figure | No figure | 89.3% |
| Pathhead North West | 658 | No figure | No figure | 99.0% |
| Pathhead South and Sands | 505 | No figure | No figure | 99.2% |
| Raith | 930 | No figure | No figure | 90.9% |
| Raith Estate and Southerton | 858 | No figure | No figure | 96.7% |
| Raith and Long Braes | 821 | No figure | No figure | 82.8% |
| Ravenscraig | 545 | No figure | No figure | 99.6% |
| Redcraigs | 945 | No figure | No figure | 64.7% |
| Seafield Central | 537 | No figure | No figure | 100.0% |
| Sinclairtown Central | 902 | No figure | No figure | 98.0% |
| Sinclairtown East | 974 | No figure | No figure | 94.5% |
| Sinclairtown North | 793 | No figure | No figure | 99.8% |
| Sinclairtown West | 994 | No figure | No figure | 95.8% |
| Smeaton North | 911 | No figure | No figure | 75.6% |
| Smeaton South | 988 | No figure | No figure | 89.0% |
| Templehall | 770 | No figure | No figure | 98.1% |
| Templehall East | 854 | No figure | No figure | 99.4% |
| Templehall North | 867 | No figure | No figure | 100.0% |
| Templehall North Eastern | 693 | No figure | No figure | 97.0% |
| Templehall West | 771 | No figure | No figure | 99.5% |
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 Kirkcaldy2
Middle areas in Kirkcaldy14
- Dysart
- Kirkcaldy Bennochy East
- Kirkcaldy Bennochy West
- Kirkcaldy Central
- Kirkcaldy Chapel
- Kirkcaldy Dunnikier
- Kirkcaldy Gallatown and Sinclairtown
- Kirkcaldy Hayfield and Smeaton
- Kirkcaldy Linktown and Seafield
- Kirkcaldy Newliston and Redcraigs
- Kirkcaldy Pathhead
- Kirkcaldy Raith
- Kirkcaldy Templehall East
- Kirkcaldy Templehall West
Towns near Kirkcaldy6
Kirkcaldy in brief
Kirkcaldy is a town in Fife, Scotland.
About 48,689 people lived in Kirkcaldy in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from NRS small-area estimates).
Kirkcaldy had 47,956 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Kirkcaldy live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Kirkcaldy, 91.6% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Kirkcaldy, 5.3% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.