Dundas Church Bo'ness Road · Photo: Auldcathy · CC BY-SA 4.0More people live alone than in 99% of UK towns: 44% of households
6.9% of households live in a detached house; across Scotland’s towns the figure is 18%. Here, 48% of households live in a flat or apartment. On households with dependent children, Grangemouth sits lower than 94% of UK towns: 20%. At the 2022 Census, 16,028 people lived locally, in 8,197 households.
Above 67% of UK towns: 10% of residents are aged 15 to 24
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2022.
Half of Grangemouth’s residents are over 45.3, older than in 56% of UK towns. To put it in context, 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across Scotland’s towns. No age band is larger than 55–59: 8.2% of residents. In Polmont, the oldest of Falkirk’s towns by this measure, it is 29%.
Median age of UK towns of 2,500+
■ Grangemouth, 45.3. The typical town is 44.4.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 94 men for every 100 women. Across Scotland, 51% of residents are women.
Full-time students: 4.9%, a higher share than 52% of UK towns
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; Grangemouth has 22% and 36%. The benchmark for full-time students across Scotland’s towns: 9.4%.
2 people per household, fewer than in 99% of UK towns
Household make-up at the 2022 Census. Each square is 1% of households.
Against Falkirk’s towns and Scotland’s towns
People per household
Scotland’s towns.
Against a figure of 3.5% across Scotland’s towns, the share of shared households of unrelated adults in Grangemouth comes in at 1.6%.
Grangemouth sits above 74% of UK towns for households in terraced houses (26%)
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
Households without a car or van: 29%, near enough the figure across Scotland’s towns. Across Scotland’s towns, 19% of households live in a terraced house.
A lower share of residents whose main language is English than 70% of UK towns, at 96%
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
The newest arrivals, from 2017 or later, are nearly a quarter of those born abroad (against 34% across Scotland’s towns). Against that, 94% of residents have English as their main language across Scotland’s towns. The largest groups were born in EU countries (4.2%) and in the Middle East and Asia (0.8%). At 6.2%, the share of residents born outside the UK is lower than in 52% of UK towns.
No religion: 55% of residents, a higher share than 98% of UK towns
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: 93% of Grangemouth · Falkirk’s towns 92% · Scotland’s towns 86%.
Religion · all residents
Across Scotland’s towns, the share of residents who describe themselves as White British is 86%; Grangemouth has 93%. At 37%, the share of residents who describe themselves as Christian is lower than in 96% of UK towns. On average, 51% of residents said they have no religion across Scotland’s towns. Beyond White British, the biggest groups are Other White (4.8%), Pakistani (0.6%) and Mixed or multiple (0.6%).
Married adults and civil partners: 40%, a lower share than 91% 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
38% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership; across Scotland’s towns the figure is 40%. To put it in context, just over two in five adults are married or in a civil partnership across Scotland’s towns. Unpaid carers: 13% of the total.
Qualified to degree level: 16% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2022.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
With 16% of its adults qualified to degree level, Grangemouth compares with 32% across Scotland’s towns; another 20% hold no qualification (17%).
381 UK towns of 11,000 to 22,000 people: this is the 143rd oldest
Median age, Census 2022. Hover a dot for its students and residents born abroad; click for its page.
Ages run from 25 in Aberystwyth to 60.4 in Sidmouth. Nearest to Grangemouth in age: Hazel Grove (45.3), Bolsover (45.3), Barton-upon-Humber (45.4) and Tadley (45.4).
Grangemouth and its 7 nearest towns: 2 of them are older
Nearby towns coloured by median age, Census 2022. Tap a town for its page.
Health, work and homes have their own pages
What this data can and can’t tell you
- “Falkirk’s towns” and “Scotland’s towns” mean their towns. Census comparisons pool every locality in Falkirk (or Scotland), summed the same way as Grangemouth’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 Grangemouth’s residents
What is the population of Grangemouth?
The 2022 Census counted 16,028 people in Grangemouth’s locality.
What is the average age in Grangemouth?
The median age was 45.3 at the 2022 Census, older than 56% of UK towns. 10% of residents were 15 to 24 and 21% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Grangemouth?
93% of residents described themselves as White British in 2022, against 86% across Scotland’s towns and 92% across Falkirk’s towns. 6.2% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Grangemouth?
55% said they had no religion and 37% that they were Christian at the 2022 Census; 0.8% were Muslim and 5.4% didn’t answer.
Is Grangemouth good for families?
20% of households had dependent children in 2022, against 24% across Scotland’s towns. Schools are on Grangemouth’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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