Stranraer
TownTown in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland.
Stranraer is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Stranraer 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 Stranraer live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Stranraer compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
What is the population of Stranraer?
Stranraer had 9,243 usual residents at the census.
Stranraer is the 184th least populated of 1,209 in the UK.
Neighbourhoods in Stranraer
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rhins North - 01 | 915 | No figure | No figure | 97.3% |
| Rhins South - 02 | 505 | No figure | No figure | 99.6% |
| Stranraer East - 01 | 683 | No figure | No figure | 70.2% |
| Stranraer East - 02 | 950 | No figure | No figure | 80.1% |
| Stranraer East - 03 | 788 | No figure | No figure | 99.8% |
| Stranraer South - 01 | 923 | No figure | No figure | 94.1% |
| Stranraer South - 02 | 1,151 | No figure | No figure | 82.3% |
| Stranraer South - 03 | 548 | No figure | No figure | 75.6% |
| Stranraer South - 04 | 719 | No figure | No figure | 100.0% |
| Stranraer West - 01 | 435 | No figure | No figure | 82.0% |
| Stranraer West - 02 | 646 | No figure | No figure | 96.2% |
| Stranraer West - 03 | 469 | No figure | No figure | 82.5% |
| Stranraer West - 04 | 1,023 | No figure | No figure | 96.4% |
Your MP
- John CooperConservativeMP for Dumfries and Galloway
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 Stranraer1
Middle areas in Stranraer3
Stranraer in brief
Stranraer is a town in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland.
About 9,200 people lived in Stranraer in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from NRS small-area estimates).
Stranraer had 9,243 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Stranraer live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Stranraer, 89.1% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Stranraer, 4.4% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.