Prestwick
TownTown in South Ayrshire, Scotland.
Prestwick is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Prestwick 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 Prestwick live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Prestwick compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
What is the population of Prestwick?
Prestwick had 14,209 usual residents at the census.
Prestwick is the 468th least populated of 1,209 in the UK.
Neighbourhoods in Prestwick
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heathfield - 01 | 670 | No figure | No figure | 100.0% |
| Heathfield - 02 | 786 | No figure | No figure | 100.0% |
| Heathfield - 03 | 636 | No figure | No figure | 100.0% |
| Heathfield - 04 | 675 | No figure | No figure | 100.0% |
| Prestwick Airport and Monkton - 03 | 553 | No figure | No figure | 81.0% |
| Prestwick Airport and Monkton - 04 | 653 | No figure | No figure | 98.5% |
| Prestwick East - 01 | 846 | No figure | No figure | 99.8% |
| Prestwick East - 02 | 667 | No figure | No figure | 99.7% |
| Prestwick East - 03 | 730 | No figure | No figure | 100.0% |
| Prestwick East - 04 | 643 | No figure | No figure | 99.7% |
| Prestwick East - 05 | 812 | No figure | No figure | 100.0% |
| Prestwick East - 06 | 772 | No figure | No figure | 99.4% |
| Prestwick East - 07 | 873 | No figure | No figure | 100.0% |
| Prestwick West - 01 | 421 | No figure | No figure | 87.1% |
| Prestwick West - 02 | 606 | No figure | No figure | 99.3% |
| Prestwick West - 03 | 479 | No figure | No figure | 91.9% |
| Prestwick West - 04 | 493 | No figure | No figure | 97.5% |
| Prestwick West - 05 | 722 | No figure | No figure | 79.8% |
| Prestwick West - 06 | 466 | No figure | No figure | 97.4% |
| Prestwick West - 07 | 750 | No figure | No figure | 94.9% |
| Prestwick West - 08 | 908 | No figure | No figure | 98.1% |
Your MP
- Alan GemmellLabourMP for Central Ayrshire
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 Prestwick1
Middle areas in Prestwick3
Towns near Prestwick6
Prestwick in brief
Prestwick is a town in South Ayrshire, Scotland.
About 14,128 people lived in Prestwick in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from NRS small-area estimates).
Prestwick had 14,209 usual residents at the census.
About 3% of people in Prestwick live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Prestwick, 95.3% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Prestwick, 2.0% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.