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Milngavie

Town

Town in East Dunbartonshire, Scotland.

Milngavie is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Milngavie 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 2% of people in Milngavie live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.

Population
11,686
334th least populated of 1,209
ONS Census 2021 · 2021
People in radon Affected Area squares
2%
UK 44%
Worked out by Open Index
Gigabit broadband coverage
89.0%
UK 87.8%
Ofcom · Jan 2026
Claimant rate
1.5%
UK 3.9%
ONS via Nomis · Aug 2026

How Milngavie compares

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

MilngavieMiddle
Population117 towns, Scotland · 2021
Population: every town in Scotland117 areas from 7,510 to 637,024. The middle area is 14,054. Milngavie is 11,686.
11,68646th 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%. Milngavie is 2.0%.
2%51st 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%. Milngavie is 89.0%.
89.0%29th lowest
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%. Milngavie is 1.5%.
1.5%joint 10th lowest

What is the population of Milngavie?

Milngavie had 11,686 usual residents at the census.

Milngavie is the 334th least populated of 1,209 in the UK.

Neighbourhoods in Milngavie

NamePeople (census)Recorded crime per 1,000Deprivation decileGigabit broadband
Barloch - 01699No figureNo figure82.5%
Barloch - 02603No figureNo figure72.9%
Barloch - 031,026No figureNo figure99.5%
Barloch - 04900No figureNo figure91.4%
East Clober and Mains Estate - 01981No figureNo figure93.4%
East Clober and Mains Estate - 02855No figureNo figure98.9%
East Clober and Mains Estate - 03839No figureNo figure97.2%
Keystone and Dougalston - 011,125No figureNo figure82.8%
Keystone and Dougalston - 02860No figureNo figure71.1%
Keystone and Dougalston - 03629No figureNo figure95.9%
Keystone and Dougalston - 04584No figureNo figure99.6%
Keystone and Dougalston - 05908No figureNo figure90.4%
West Clober and Mains Estate - 01753No figureNo figure98.9%
West Clober and Mains Estate - 02675No figureNo figure84.2%
West Clober and Mains Estate - 03573No figureNo figure100.0%
West Clober and Mains Estate - 04614No figureNo figure99.6%

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Towns near Milngavie6

Milngavie in brief

Milngavie is a town in East Dunbartonshire, Scotland.

About 11,559 people lived in Milngavie in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from NRS small-area estimates).

Milngavie had 11,686 usual residents at the census.

About 2% of people in Milngavie live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.

In Milngavie, 89.0% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.

In Milngavie, 1.5% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.