Penicuik
TownTown in Midlothian, Scotland.
Penicuik is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Penicuik 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 61% of people in Penicuik live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Penicuik compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
What is the population of Penicuik?
Penicuik had 15,886 usual residents at the census.
Penicuik is the 549th least populated of 1,209 in the UK.
Neighbourhoods in Penicuik
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Penicuik East - 01 | 586 | No figure | No figure | 96.2% |
| Penicuik East - 02 | 875 | No figure | No figure | 100.0% |
| Penicuik East - 03 | 501 | No figure | No figure | 100.0% |
| Penicuik East - 04 | 621 | No figure | No figure | 100.0% |
| Penicuik North - 01 | 896 | No figure | No figure | 97.4% |
| Penicuik North - 02 | 748 | No figure | No figure | 100.0% |
| Penicuik North - 03 | 679 | No figure | No figure | 100.0% |
| Penicuik North - 04 | 473 | No figure | No figure | 99.5% |
| Penicuik North - 05 | 507 | No figure | No figure | 83.8% |
| Penicuik Southeast - 01 | 952 | No figure | No figure | 72.4% |
| Penicuik Southeast - 02 | 640 | No figure | No figure | 79.4% |
| Penicuik Southeast - 03 | 620 | No figure | No figure | 73.8% |
| Penicuik Southeast - 04 | 698 | No figure | No figure | 98.6% |
| Penicuik Southeast - 05 | 835 | No figure | No figure | 95.0% |
| Penicuik Southwest - 01 | 470 | No figure | No figure | 97.8% |
| Penicuik Southwest - 02 | 608 | No figure | No figure | 100.0% |
| Penicuik Southwest - 03 | 769 | No figure | No figure | 100.0% |
| Penicuik Southwest - 04 | 622 | No figure | No figure | 100.0% |
| Penicuik Southwest - 05 | 612 | No figure | No figure | 100.0% |
| Penicuik Southwest - 06 | 541 | No figure | No figure | 100.0% |
| Pentland - 01 | 771 | No figure | No figure | 95.7% |
| Pentland - 02 | 659 | No figure | No figure | 94.4% |
| Pentland - 03 | 779 | No figure | No figure | 90.2% |
| Pentland - 04 | 621 | No figure | No figure | 98.9% |
Your MP
- Kirsty McNeillLabour (Co-op)MP for Midlothian
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 Penicuik1
Middle areas in Penicuik5
Towns near Penicuik6
Penicuik in brief
Penicuik is a town in Midlothian, Scotland.
About 16,065 people lived in Penicuik in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from NRS small-area estimates).
Penicuik had 15,886 usual residents at the census.
About 61% of people in Penicuik live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Penicuik, 94.2% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Penicuik, 2.5% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.