Wishaw
TownTown in North Lanarkshire, Scotland.
Wishaw is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Wishaw 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 Wishaw live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Wishaw compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
What is the population of Wishaw?
Wishaw had 29,849 usual residents at the census.
Wishaw is the 370th most populated of 1,209 in the UK.
Neighbourhoods in Wishaw
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coltness - 01 | 825 | No figure | No figure | 100.0% |
| Coltness - 03 | 567 | No figure | No figure | 99.3% |
| Coltness - 04 | 664 | No figure | No figure | 100.0% |
| Coltness - 05 | 791 | No figure | No figure | 100.0% |
| Craigneuk Wishaw - 01 | 930 | No figure | No figure | 78.2% |
| Craigneuk Wishaw - 02 | 727 | No figure | No figure | 100.0% |
| Craigneuk Wishaw - 03 | 716 | No figure | No figure | 99.7% |
| Craigneuk Wishaw - 04 | 951 | No figure | No figure | 97.7% |
| Craigneuk Wishaw - 05 | 669 | No figure | No figure | 100.0% |
| Craigneuk Wishaw - 06 | 895 | No figure | No figure | 94.8% |
| Netherton and Kirkhill - 01 | 793 | No figure | No figure | 86.6% |
| Netherton and Kirkhill - 02 | 642 | No figure | No figure | 99.6% |
| Netherton and Kirkhill - 03 | 629 | No figure | No figure | 76.6% |
| Netherton and Kirkhill - 04 | 489 | No figure | No figure | 99.6% |
| Netherton and Kirkhill - 05 | 802 | No figure | No figure | 99.5% |
| Overtown - 04 | 467 | No figure | No figure | 99.1% |
| Overtown - 05 | 856 | No figure | No figure | 86.2% |
| Pather - 01 | 1,088 | No figure | No figure | 86.2% |
| Pather - 02 | 787 | No figure | No figure | 84.2% |
| Pather - 03 | 712 | No figure | No figure | 96.3% |
| Pather - 04 | 633 | No figure | No figure | 100.0% |
| Pather - 05 | 624 | No figure | No figure | 100.0% |
| Wishaw East - 01 | 491 | No figure | No figure | 100.0% |
| Wishaw East - 02 | 785 | No figure | No figure | 99.5% |
| Wishaw East - 03 | 855 | No figure | No figure | 97.8% |
| Wishaw East - 04 | 553 | No figure | No figure | 100.0% |
| Wishaw North - 01 | 681 | No figure | No figure | 66.3% |
| Wishaw North - 02 | 640 | No figure | No figure | 93.2% |
| Wishaw North - 03 | 970 | No figure | No figure | 95.4% |
| Wishaw North - 04 | 483 | No figure | No figure | 99.6% |
| Wishaw North - 05 | 766 | No figure | No figure | 98.7% |
| Wishaw North - 06 | 601 | No figure | No figure | 99.0% |
| Wishaw North - 07 | 865 | No figure | No figure | 99.4% |
| Wishaw North - 08 | 541 | No figure | No figure | 100.0% |
| Wishaw North - 09 | 618 | No figure | No figure | 100.0% |
| Wishaw South - 01 | 866 | No figure | No figure | 96.9% |
| Wishaw South - 02 | 538 | No figure | No figure | 100.0% |
| Wishaw South - 03 | 772 | No figure | No figure | 88.0% |
| Wishaw South - 04 | 775 | No figure | No figure | 87.4% |
| Wishaw South - 05 | 842 | No figure | No figure | 85.1% |
| Wishaw South - 06 | 683 | No figure | No figure | 87.9% |
| Wishaw South - 07 | 499 | No figure | No figure | 100.0% |
Your MP
- Pamela NashLabourMP for Motherwell, Wishaw and Carluke
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 Wishaw2
Middle areas in Wishaw7
Towns near Wishaw6
Wishaw in brief
Wishaw is a town in North Lanarkshire, Scotland.
About 29,976 people lived in Wishaw in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from NRS small-area estimates).
Wishaw had 29,849 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Wishaw live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Wishaw, 93.4% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Wishaw, 3.7% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.