Saltcoats
TownTown in North Ayrshire, Scotland.
Saltcoats is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Saltcoats 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 9% of people in Saltcoats live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Saltcoats compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
What is the population of Saltcoats?
Saltcoats had 11,641 usual residents at the census.
Saltcoats is the 331st least populated of 1,209 in the UK.
Neighbourhoods in Saltcoats
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fairlie and Rural - 02 | 514 | No figure | No figure | 99.6% |
| Saltcoats Central - 01 | 722 | No figure | No figure | 77.5% |
| Saltcoats Central - 02 | 550 | No figure | No figure | 94.8% |
| Saltcoats Central - 03 | 665 | No figure | No figure | 88.9% |
| Saltcoats Central - 04 | 686 | No figure | No figure | 81.9% |
| Saltcoats Central - 05 | 974 | No figure | No figure | 83.4% |
| Saltcoats North East - 01 | 866 | No figure | No figure | 99.7% |
| Saltcoats North East - 02 | 404 | No figure | No figure | 99.5% |
| Saltcoats North East - 03 | 713 | No figure | No figure | 92.5% |
| Saltcoats North East - 04 | 553 | No figure | No figure | 100.0% |
| Saltcoats North East - 05 | 618 | No figure | No figure | 99.6% |
| Saltcoats North East - 06 | 828 | No figure | No figure | 99.8% |
| Saltcoats North East - 07 | 821 | No figure | No figure | 100.0% |
| Saltcoats North West - 01 | 757 | No figure | No figure | 100.0% |
| Saltcoats North West - 02 | 485 | No figure | No figure | 100.0% |
| Saltcoats North West - 03 | 707 | No figure | No figure | 99.4% |
| Saltcoats North West - 04 | 645 | No figure | No figure | 69.2% |
| Saltcoats North West - 05 | 659 | No figure | No figure | 97.4% |
Your MP
- Irene CampbellLabourMP for North Ayrshire and Arran
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 Saltcoats1
Middle areas in Saltcoats3
Towns near Saltcoats6
Saltcoats in brief
Saltcoats is a town in North Ayrshire, Scotland.
About 11,927 people lived in Saltcoats in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from NRS small-area estimates).
Saltcoats had 11,641 usual residents at the census.
About 9% of people in Saltcoats live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Saltcoats, 90.9% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Saltcoats, 5.1% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.