Montrose
TownTown in Angus, Scotland.
Montrose is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Montrose 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 Montrose live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Montrose compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
What is the population of Montrose?
Montrose had 11,173 usual residents at the census.
Montrose is the 299th least populated of 1,209 in the UK.
Neighbourhoods in Montrose
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hillside - 02 | 646 | No figure | No figure | 83.6% |
| Lunan - 03 | 845 | No figure | No figure | 91.2% |
| Montrose North - 01 | 561 | No figure | No figure | 94.0% |
| Montrose North - 02 | 837 | No figure | No figure | 95.4% |
| Montrose North - 03 | 908 | No figure | No figure | 95.0% |
| Montrose North - 04 | 822 | No figure | No figure | 88.3% |
| Montrose North - 05 | 693 | No figure | No figure | 61.3% |
| Montrose North - 06 | 749 | No figure | No figure | 71.0% |
| Montrose South - 01 | 1,010 | No figure | No figure | 77.2% |
| Montrose South - 02 | 706 | No figure | No figure | 79.3% |
| Montrose South - 03 | 634 | No figure | No figure | 86.0% |
| Montrose South - 04 | 959 | No figure | No figure | 92.2% |
| Montrose South - 05 | 396 | No figure | No figure | 91.4% |
| Montrose South - 06 | 815 | No figure | No figure | 95.7% |
| Montrose South - 07 | 668 | No figure | No figure | 88.8% |
Your MP
- Dave DooganScottish National PartyMP for Angus and Perthshire Glens
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 Montrose1
Middle areas in Montrose2
Towns near Montrose4
Montrose in brief
Montrose is a town in Angus, Scotland.
About 11,005 people lived in Montrose in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from NRS small-area estimates).
Montrose had 11,173 usual residents at the census.
About 3% of people in Montrose live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Montrose, 86.4% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Montrose, 4.2% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.