Portlethen
TownTown in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
Portlethen is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Portlethen 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 Portlethen live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Portlethen compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
What is the population of Portlethen?
Portlethen had 8,676 usual residents at the census.
Portlethen is the joint 120th least populated of 1,209 in the UK.
Neighbourhoods in Portlethen
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Banchory-Devenick and Findon - 03 | 515 | No figure | No figure | 87.0% |
| Banchory-Devenick and Findon - 04 | 721 | No figure | No figure | 100.0% |
| Banchory-Devenick and Findon - 05 | 646 | No figure | No figure | 93.7% |
| Banchory-Devenick and Findon - 06 | 525 | No figure | No figure | 97.6% |
| Banchory-Devenick and Findon - 07 | 898 | No figure | No figure | 99.5% |
| Banchory-Devenick and Findon - 08 | 726 | No figure | No figure | 98.9% |
| Fetteresso, Netherley and Catter - 06 | 690 | No figure | No figure | 96.4% |
| Portlethen - 01 | 696 | No figure | No figure | 97.9% |
| Portlethen - 02 | 742 | No figure | No figure | 100.0% |
| Portlethen - 03 | 594 | No figure | No figure | 95.8% |
| Portlethen - 04 | 841 | No figure | No figure | 100.0% |
| Portlethen - 05 | 468 | No figure | No figure | 100.0% |
| Portlethen - 06 | 639 | No figure | No figure | 96.7% |
Your MP
- Andrew BowieConservativeMP for West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine
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 Portlethen1
Middle areas in Portlethen2
Towns near Portlethen4
Portlethen in brief
Portlethen is a town in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
About 8,790 people lived in Portlethen in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from NRS small-area estimates).
Portlethen had 8,676 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Portlethen live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Portlethen, 97.4% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Portlethen, 1.5% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.