Linwood
TownTown in Renfrewshire, Scotland.
Linwood is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Linwood 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 3% of people in Linwood live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Linwood compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
What is the population of Linwood?
Linwood had 8,165 usual residents at the census.
Linwood is the 74th least populated of 1,209 in the UK.
Neighbourhoods in Linwood
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linwood North - 01 | 660 | No figure | No figure | 100.0% |
| Linwood North - 02 | 865 | No figure | No figure | 100.0% |
| Linwood North - 03 | 960 | No figure | No figure | 99.8% |
| Linwood North - 04 | 676 | No figure | No figure | 100.0% |
| Linwood North - 05 | 624 | No figure | No figure | 99.3% |
| Linwood North - 06 | 658 | No figure | No figure | 99.2% |
| Linwood South - 01 | 770 | No figure | No figure | 100.0% |
| Linwood South - 02 | 519 | No figure | No figure | 100.0% |
| Linwood South - 03 | 836 | No figure | No figure | 100.0% |
| Linwood South - 04 | 586 | No figure | No figure | 100.0% |
| Linwood South - 05 | 608 | No figure | No figure | 100.0% |
| Linwood South - 06 | 862 | No figure | No figure | 99.2% |
Your MP
- Johanna BaxterLabourMP for Paisley and Renfrewshire South
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 Linwood1
Middle areas in Linwood2
Towns near Linwood6
Linwood in brief
Linwood is a town in Renfrewshire, Scotland.
About 8,320 people lived in Linwood in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from NRS small-area estimates).
Linwood had 8,165 usual residents at the census.
About 3% of people in Linwood live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Linwood, 99.8% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Linwood, 3.3% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.