Nairn
TownTown in Highland, Scotland.
Nairn is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Nairn 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 96% of people in Nairn live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Nairn compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
What is the population of Nairn?
Nairn had 8,086 usual residents at the census.
Nairn is the joint 67th least populated of 1,209 in the UK.
Neighbourhoods in Nairn
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nairn East - 01 | 596 | No figure | No figure | 0.0% |
| Nairn East - 02 | 736 | No figure | No figure | 2.5% |
| Nairn East - 03 | 905 | No figure | No figure | 5.8% |
| Nairn East - 04 | 537 | No figure | No figure | 0.0% |
| Nairn East - 05 | 790 | No figure | No figure | 17.9% |
| Nairn Rural - 02 | 907 | No figure | No figure | 98.2% |
| Nairn Rural - 03 | 887 | No figure | No figure | 100.0% |
| Nairn West - 01 | 766 | No figure | No figure | 0.7% |
| Nairn West - 02 | 582 | No figure | No figure | 6.3% |
| Nairn West - 04 | 686 | No figure | No figure | 0.0% |
| Nairn West - 05 | 487 | No figure | No figure | 0.5% |
| Nairn West - 06 | 441 | No figure | No figure | 0.0% |
| Nairn West - 07 | 562 | No figure | No figure | 0.0% |
Your MP
- Graham LeadbitterScottish National PartyMP for Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey
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 Nairn1
Middle areas in Nairn2
Towns near Nairn4
Nairn in brief
Nairn is a town in Highland, Scotland.
About 8,000 people lived in Nairn in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from NRS small-area estimates).
Nairn had 8,086 usual residents at the census.
About 96% of people in Nairn live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Nairn, 19.1% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Nairn, 2.6% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.