St Andrews
TownTown in Fife, Scotland.
St Andrews is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for St Andrews 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 37% of people in St Andrews live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How St Andrews compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
What is the population of St Andrews?
St Andrews had 16,000 usual residents at the census.
St Andrews is the 553rd least populated of 1,209 in the UK.
Neighbourhoods in St Andrews
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cairnsmill | 479 | No figure | No figure | 73.8% |
| Canongate | 574 | No figure | No figure | 97.8% |
| East Sands | 713 | No figure | No figure | 79.3% |
| East Scores | 672 | No figure | No figure | 18.2% |
| Hallow Hill | 584 | No figure | No figure | 93.2% |
| Hallow Hill South | 744 | No figure | No figure | 100.0% |
| Kilrymont East | 654 | No figure | No figure | 100.0% |
| Kilrymont West | 705 | No figure | No figure | 93.4% |
| Kilrymont and Langlands | 661 | No figure | No figure | 91.2% |
| Kinness Burn | 446 | No figure | No figure | 81.6% |
| Kinness Burn East | 868 | No figure | No figure | 96.4% |
| Kinness Burn West | 766 | No figure | No figure | 66.1% |
| Langlands West | 700 | No figure | No figure | 96.4% |
| Lawhead and Northbank | 685 | No figure | No figure | 82.7% |
| North Haugh | 3,676 | No figure | No figure | 14.9% |
| St Andrews St Leonards and Abbey | 1,632 | No figure | No figure | 22.1% |
| St Andrews Town Centre | 461 | No figure | No figure | 4.5% |
| West Scores | 1,078 | No figure | No figure | 14.4% |
Your MP
- Wendy ChamberlainLiberal DemocratMP for North East Fife
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 St Andrews1
Middle areas in St Andrews3
Towns near St Andrews6
St Andrews in brief
St Andrews is a town in Fife, Scotland.
About 14,633 people lived in St Andrews in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from NRS small-area estimates).
St Andrews had 16,000 usual residents at the census.
About 37% of people in St Andrews live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In St Andrews, 61.4% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In St Andrews, 0.7% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.