Shotts
TownTown in North Lanarkshire, Scotland.
Shotts is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Shotts 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 0% of people in Shotts live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Shotts compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
What is the population of Shotts?
Shotts had 7,812 usual residents at the census.
Shotts is the 44th least populated of 1,209 in the UK.
Neighbourhoods in Shotts
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harthill and Salsburgh - 01 | 837 | No figure | No figure | 94.7% |
| Shotts - 01 | 934 | No figure | No figure | 99.8% |
| Shotts - 02 | 1,037 | No figure | No figure | 99.8% |
| Shotts - 03 | 1,001 | No figure | No figure | 96.8% |
| Shotts - 04 | 867 | No figure | No figure | 100.0% |
| Shotts - 05 | 576 | No figure | No figure | 94.1% |
| Stane - 01 | 686 | No figure | No figure | 95.7% |
| Stane - 02 | 504 | No figure | No figure | 100.0% |
| Stane - 03 | 670 | No figure | No figure | 92.2% |
| Stane - 04 | 672 | No figure | No figure | 98.4% |
| Stane - 05 | 477 | No figure | No figure | 100.0% |
Your MP
- Kenneth StevensonLabourMP for Airdrie and Shotts
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 Shotts1
Middle areas in Shotts2
Towns near Shotts6
Shotts in brief
Shotts is a town in North Lanarkshire, Scotland.
About 7,837 people lived in Shotts in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from NRS small-area estimates).
Shotts had 7,812 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Shotts live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Shotts, 97.7% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Shotts, 3.5% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.