Peterhead
TownTown in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
Peterhead is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Peterhead 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 100% of people in Peterhead live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Peterhead compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
What is the population of Peterhead?
Peterhead had 18,511 usual residents at the census.
Peterhead is the 585th most populated of 1,209 in the UK.
Neighbourhoods in Peterhead
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Longside and Rattray South - 02 | 737 | No figure | No figure | 97.7% |
| Longside and Rattray South - 03 | 603 | No figure | No figure | 98.4% |
| Longside and Rattray South - 04 | 735 | No figure | No figure | 99.4% |
| Longside and Rattray South - 06 | 643 | No figure | No figure | 99.6% |
| Peterhead Bay - 01 | 739 | No figure | No figure | 50.7% |
| Peterhead Bay - 02 | 895 | No figure | No figure | 83.3% |
| Peterhead Bay - 03 | 759 | No figure | No figure | 97.4% |
| Peterhead Harbour - 01 | 656 | No figure | No figure | 100.0% |
| Peterhead Harbour - 02 | 574 | No figure | No figure | 100.0% |
| Peterhead Harbour - 03 | 1,007 | No figure | No figure | 99.2% |
| Peterhead Harbour - 04 | 574 | No figure | No figure | 77.9% |
| Peterhead Harbour - 05 | 905 | No figure | No figure | 92.9% |
| Peterhead Harbour - 06 | 1,115 | No figure | No figure | 77.6% |
| Peterhead Harbour - 07 | 929 | No figure | No figure | 92.9% |
| Peterhead Harbour - 08 | 529 | No figure | No figure | 99.6% |
| Peterhead Links - 01 | 483 | No figure | No figure | 75.9% |
| Peterhead Links - 02 | 1,231 | No figure | No figure | 84.0% |
| Peterhead Links - 03 | 580 | No figure | No figure | 8.0% |
| Peterhead Links - 04 | 690 | No figure | No figure | 9.2% |
| Peterhead Links - 05 | 665 | No figure | No figure | 27.2% |
| Peterhead Links - 06 | 713 | No figure | No figure | 34.9% |
| Peterhead Ugieside - 02 | 438 | No figure | No figure | 49.8% |
| Peterhead Ugieside - 03 | 839 | No figure | No figure | 99.4% |
| Peterhead Ugieside - 04 | 544 | No figure | No figure | 72.2% |
| Peterhead Ugieside - 05 | 862 | No figure | No figure | 36.0% |
| Peterhead Ugieside - 06 | 866 | No figure | No figure | 85.1% |
Your MP
- Seamus LoganScottish National PartyMP for Aberdeenshire North and Moray East
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 Peterhead1
Middle areas in Peterhead5
Towns near Peterhead2
Peterhead in brief
Peterhead is a town in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
About 18,901 people lived in Peterhead in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from NRS small-area estimates).
Peterhead had 18,511 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Peterhead live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Peterhead, 76.1% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Peterhead, 3.6% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.