Leven
TownTown in Fife, Scotland.
Leven is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Leven 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 Leven live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Leven compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
What is the population of Leven?
Leven had 9,550 usual residents at the census.
Leven is the 206th least populated of 1,209 in the UK.
Neighbourhoods in Leven
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Broom North | 1,033 | No figure | No figure | 99.8% |
| Broom South | 851 | No figure | No figure | 93.8% |
| Leven Castlefleurie East | 554 | No figure | No figure | 100.0% |
| Leven Castlefleurie West | 606 | No figure | No figure | 100.0% |
| Leven Letham Glen | 1,029 | No figure | No figure | 99.3% |
| Leven Links | 778 | No figure | No figure | 93.2% |
| Leven Montrave | 603 | No figure | No figure | 99.7% |
| Leven Mountfleurie East | 665 | No figure | No figure | 99.3% |
| Leven Mountfleurie West | 855 | No figure | No figure | 87.7% |
| Leven North | 649 | No figure | No figure | 99.7% |
| Leven South | 929 | No figure | No figure | 88.4% |
| Leven South West | 907 | No figure | No figure | 88.0% |
| Scoonie South | 622 | No figure | No figure | 98.5% |
Your MP
- Wendy ChamberlainLiberal DemocratMP for North East Fife
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 Leven1
Middle areas in Leven3
Towns near Leven6
Leven in brief
Leven is a town in Fife, Scotland.
About 9,681 people lived in Leven in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from NRS small-area estimates).
Leven had 9,550 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Leven live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Leven, 94.4% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Leven, 3.8% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.