Whitburn
TownTown in West Lothian, Scotland.
Whitburn is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Whitburn 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 Whitburn live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Whitburn compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
What is the population of Whitburn?
Whitburn had 11,287 usual residents at the census.
Whitburn is the 310th least populated of 1,209 in the UK.
Neighbourhoods in Whitburn
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Whitburn Blaeberry and Foulshiels | 678 | No figure | No figure | 95.2% |
| Whitburn Brown Street | 876 | No figure | No figure | 99.8% |
| Whitburn Dean Street | 571 | No figure | No figure | 97.6% |
| Whitburn Dixon Road and Burnhouse | 614 | No figure | No figure | 96.1% |
| Whitburn Drysdale Avenue | 770 | No figure | No figure | 82.9% |
| Whitburn East Main Street | 828 | No figure | No figure | 91.4% |
| Whitburn Gardner Crescent | 769 | No figure | No figure | 100.0% |
| Whitburn Glenisla Court | 801 | No figure | No figure | 99.7% |
| Whitburn Heartlands North | 954 | No figure | No figure | 99.2% |
| Whitburn Heartlands South and Rural West | 937 | No figure | No figure | 95.9% |
| Whitburn Kepscaith | 865 | No figure | No figure | 87.2% |
| Whitburn Lomond Crescent | 427 | No figure | No figure | 94.2% |
| Whitburn Netherton Grove | 671 | No figure | No figure | 65.1% |
| Whitburn Union Drive | 893 | No figure | No figure | 98.9% |
| Whitburn War Memorial | 621 | No figure | No figure | 88.9% |
| Whitburn Whitdale School | 698 | No figure | No figure | 97.3% |
Your MP
- Kirsteen SullivanLabour (Co-op)MP for Bathgate and Linlithgow
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Council1
Postcode districts covering Whitburn1
Middle areas in Whitburn3
Towns near Whitburn6
Whitburn in brief
Whitburn is a town in West Lothian, Scotland.
About 11,410 people lived in Whitburn in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from NRS small-area estimates).
Whitburn had 11,287 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Whitburn live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Whitburn, 93.3% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Whitburn, 3.9% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.