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Queensferry

Town

Town in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Queensferry is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Queensferry 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.

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Radon Affected Area by town

Worked out by Open Index · 2022

Under 1%90% or more

About 42% of people in Queensferry live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.

Population
9,337
Joint 189th least populated of 1,209
ONS Census 2021 · 2021
People in radon Affected Area squares
42%
UK 44%
Worked out by Open Index
Gigabit broadband coverage
95.9%
UK 87.8%
Ofcom · Jan 2026
Claimant rate
2.4%
UK 3.9%
ONS via Nomis · Aug 2026

How Queensferry compares

Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.

QueensferryMiddle
Population117 towns, Scotland · 2021
Population: every town in Scotland117 areas from 7,510 to 637,024. The middle area is 14,054. Queensferry is 9,337.
9,337joint 23rd least populated
People in radon Affected Area squares117 towns, Scotland · 2022
People in radon Affected Area squares: every town in Scotland117 areas from 0.0% to 100.0%. The middle area is 4.0%. Queensferry is 42.0%.
42%29th most people in radon Affected Areas
Gigabit broadband coverage117 towns, Scotland · Jan 2026
Gigabit broadband coverage: every town in Scotland117 areas from 17.5% to 99.8%. The middle area is 93.1%. Queensferry is 95.9%.
95.9%joint 26th highest
Claimant rate117 towns, Scotland · Aug 2026
Claimant rate: every town in Scotland117 areas from 0.7% to 6.3%. The middle area is 3.1%. Queensferry is 2.4%.
2.4%joint 28th lowest

What is the population of Queensferry?

Queensferry had 9,337 usual residents at the census.

Queensferry is the joint 189th least populated of 1,209 in the UK.

Neighbourhoods in Queensferry

NamePeople (census)Recorded crime per 1,000Deprivation decileGigabit broadband
Dalmeny and Newbridge - 06783No figureNo figure97.2%
Dalmeny and Newbridge - 07584No figureNo figure89.2%
Queensferry East - 01976No figureNo figure88.5%
Queensferry East - 02610No figureNo figure100.0%
Queensferry East - 03635No figureNo figure99.7%
Queensferry East - 04779No figureNo figure98.3%
Queensferry East - 05694No figureNo figure100.0%
Queensferry East - 06906No figureNo figure91.2%
Queensferry West - 01487No figureNo figure77.2%
Queensferry West - 02961No figureNo figure82.6%
Queensferry West - 03814No figureNo figure100.0%
Queensferry West - 04702No figureNo figure100.0%
Queensferry West - 05796No figureNo figure99.0%

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As of , from the UK Parliament Members API. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. Source: UK Parliament, Members API.

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Postcode districts covering Queensferry1

Middle areas in Queensferry2

Towns near Queensferry6

Queensferry in brief

Queensferry is a town in Edinburgh, Scotland.

About 9,949 people lived in Queensferry in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from NRS small-area estimates).

Queensferry had 9,337 usual residents at the census.

About 42% of people in Queensferry live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.

In Queensferry, 95.9% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.

In Queensferry, 2.4% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.