Photo: Library of Congress Catalog: http://lccn.loc.gov/2001705971 · Public domainA smaller share of shared households of unrelated adults than 99% of UK towns: 0.5%
Here just over three in five adults are married or in a civil partnership, where the figure across Scotland’s towns is 42%. Dollar counted 2,853 residents and 1,204 households at the 2022 Census. Households in detached houses: 52% of the total. Lower than in 91% of UK towns: 9.3% of households live in a terraced house.
What the Census says about Dollar’s people
Older than most towns
Half of Dollar’s residents are under 50.8 and half over, against 44.4 in the typical UK town. 27% are 65 or over, against 19% across Scotland’s towns. Ages ↓
Written from the data on this page: Scotland’s Census 2022 (output areas summed to the 2022 locality).
A median age of 50.8: Dollar is older than 89% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2022.
Residents aged 15 to 24: 11% here and 12% across Scotland’s towns. Here, 27% of residents are 65 or over.
Median age of UK towns of 2,500+
■ Dollar, 50.8. The typical town is 44.4.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 91 men for every 100 women. Across Scotland, 51% of residents are women. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
A student town: 7.9% of adults study full-time
What adults did at the 2022 Census (the NS-SEC classes).
Adults by occupation class · residents 16 and over
Across Scotland’s towns, 33% of adults are in managerial and professional jobs and 25% in routine or semi-routine work; Dollar has 51% and 13%. As a yardstick, 9.4% of adults are full-time students across Scotland’s towns.
The Census was taken on 20 March 2022, in term time, so students were counted at their term addresses.
Dollar households average 2.3 people, smaller than in 62% of UK towns
Household make-up at the 2022 Census. Each square is 1% of households.
Against Clackmannanshire’s towns and Scotland’s towns
People per household
Scotland’s towns.
Compared with 38% across Scotland’s towns, 29% of households are one person living alone here. 27% of households have dependent children.
A smaller share of households without a car or van than 83% of UK towns: 9.8%
Accommodation type and cars or vans per household, Census 2022. Owning and renting are on Cost of living.
Type of home
Cars or vans · share of households
In Dollar, just over one in ten households live in a flat or apartment, beside 39% across Scotland’s towns. Across the comparison, 29% of households have no car or van across Scotland’s towns.
96% of residents have English as their main language, fewer than in 72% of UK towns
Country of birth, year of arrival and main language, Census 2022.
Born outside the UK, by region · share of all residents; the bar runs to 15%
When those born abroad arrived
Main language · residents aged 3 and over
Little separates the share of residents born outside the UK here, 11%, from the figure across Scotland’s towns. Against that, 94% of residents have English as their main language across Scotland’s towns. Most residents from abroad were born in EU countries (3.5%) or in the Middle East and Asia (2.9%).
Below 69% of UK towns: 89% of residents describe themselves as White British
How residents described themselves at the 2022 Census. Lines join the lowest and highest of the three figures.
Ethnic groups other than White British · all residents
White British, not charted: 89% of Dollar · Clackmannanshire’s towns 93% · Scotland’s towns 86%.
Religion · all residents
Beyond White British, the biggest groups are Other White (5.6%), Mixed or multiple (2.4%) and Pakistani (1.1%). 52% of residents said they have no religion, a higher share than in 96% of UK towns. As a yardstick, 86% of residents describe themselves as White British across Scotland’s towns. Nothing unusual on residents who describe themselves as Christian: 39%, close to the figure across Scotland’s towns.
23% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership, below 97% of UK towns
Legal partnership status (residents 16 and over) and unpaid care (residents 3 and over), Census 2022.
Partnership status · residents 16 and over
Unpaid care given · share of residents 3 and over
50 residents care, unpaid, for at least 50 hours a week. More unpaid carers than in 80% of UK towns: 11%. The wider picture: two in five adults have never married or formed a civil partnership across Scotland’s towns.
Degree-level qualifications reach 54% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2022.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
54% of Dollar’s adults have a degree-level qualification, against 32% across Scotland’s towns; 7.8% have none (17%). For 9.3%, Highers are the highest qualification so far, many of them students still working towards a degree.
Among 515 UK towns of 2,500 to 4,000 people, the 99th oldest
Median age, Census 2022. Hover a dot for its students and residents born abroad; click for its page.
At the ends of the range sit Keele (20.6), the youngest, and West Chiltington (63.1), the oldest. Nearest to Dollar in age: Rhuddlan (50.8), Rhos (50.8), Nafferton (50.9) and New Marske (51).
Dollar sits below 2 of its 7 closest neighbours on median age
Nearby towns coloured by median age, Census 2022. Tap a town for its page.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Homes with children |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dollar | 2,853 | — | 50.8 | 27% | 27% |
| Tillicoultry | 4,482 | 2.8 mi | 51 | 27% | 18% |
| Sauchie | 6,357 | 4.8 mi | 44 | 21% | 26% |
| Clackmannan | 3,282 | 4.9 mi | 47.4 | 22% | 23% |
| Alva | 4,820 | 5.1 mi | 48.9 | 24% | 20% |
| Alloa | 14,689 | 5.9 mi | 42.9 | 18% | 24% |
| Tullibody | 8,515 | 6.7 mi | 41 | 17% | 32% |
| Kincardine | 2,887 | 6.7 mi | 52.2 | 27% | 18% |
Health, work and homes have their own pages
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The Census was taken in term time. 20 March 2022 fell in term time, and students were asked to give their term-time address, so most were counted where they study. Some may have been living with family that day.
- “Clackmannanshire’s towns” and “Scotland’s towns” mean their towns. Census comparisons pool every locality in Clackmannanshire (or Scotland), summed the same way as Dollar’s figures, so households in open countryside are left out.
- Small counts are blurred. National Records of Scotland adjusts small Census counts to protect privacy, so the same total differs a little between tables, and the shares of a small town can move by a point or two.
Questions about Dollar’s residents
What is the population of Dollar?
The 2022 Census counted 2,853 people in Dollar’s locality.
What is the average age in Dollar?
The median age was 50.8 at the 2022 Census, older than 89% of UK towns. 11% of residents were 15 to 24 and 27% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Dollar?
89% of residents described themselves as White British in 2022, against 86% across Scotland’s towns and 93% across Clackmannanshire’s towns. 11% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Dollar?
52% said they had no religion and 39% that they were Christian at the 2022 Census; 1.2% were Muslim and 6.9% didn’t answer.
Is Dollar good for families?
27% of households had dependent children in 2022, against 24% across Scotland’s towns. Schools are on Dollar’s schools page.
Sources: Scotland’s Census 2022 (National Records of Scotland), output areas summed to the NRS 2022 locality (UV101b, UV103, UV104, UV113, UV201, UV204b, UV205, UV212, UV301, UV402, UV405, UV406, UV501, UV607, UV801). Open Government Licence v3.0.
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