Photo: Richard Dorrell · CC BY-SA 2.041% of households are one person living alone, more than in 99% of UK towns
26% of households have no car or van; across Scotland’s towns the figure is 29%. Married adults and civil partners are rarer here than in 93% of UK towns. Census day 2021: 3,801 residents and 1,838 households in Invergordon. The census found that a third of households live in a terraced house in the town.
Residents aged 15 to 24 make up 11% in Invergordon, more than in 80% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2022.
More residents are 55–59 than any other five-year age: 7.6% of residents. Half of Invergordon’s residents are under 44.3, younger than in 51% of UK towns. On average, 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across Scotland’s towns. In Nairn, the oldest of Highland’s towns by this measure, it is 28%.
Median age of UK towns of 2,500+
■ Invergordon, 44.3. The typical town is 44.4.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Across Scotland, 51% of residents are women.
Below 93% of UK towns: 3.6% of adults are full-time students
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; Invergordon has 20% and 38%. Full-time students make up 9.4% across Scotland’s towns.
2 people per household, fewer than in 98% of UK towns
Household make-up at the 2022 Census. Each square is 1% of households.
Against Highland’s towns and Scotland’s towns
People per household
Scotland’s towns.
With shared households of unrelated adults at 1.9%, Invergordon is behind 74% of UK towns on that count. Lower than in 84% of UK towns: 23% of households have dependent children.
16% of households live in a flat or apartment, more than in 72% of UK towns
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
Against a figure of 18% across Scotland’s towns, the share of households in detached houses in Invergordon comes in at 20%. Elsewhere, 39% of households live in a flat or apartment across Scotland’s towns.
A smaller share of residents whose main language is English than 72% of UK towns: 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
Where 34% of those born abroad across Scotland’s towns arrived in 2017 or later, here the share is 19%. Residents born abroad were most often born in EU countries (4%), then in the Middle East and Asia (1%). The wider picture: 94% of residents have English as their main language across Scotland’s towns.
Invergordon: 56% of residents said they have no religion, above 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 Invergordon · Highland’s towns 90% · Scotland’s towns 86%.
Religion · all residents
Besides White British, the main groups are Other White (5.5%), Mixed or multiple (1%) and Pakistani (0.4%). Against that, just over half of residents said they have no religion across Scotland’s towns. On residents who describe themselves as Christian, Invergordon sits lower than 96% of UK towns: 37%. By contrast, residents who describe themselves as White British make up 93%, against 86% across Scotland’s towns.
Invergordon: 38% of adults have never married or formed a civil partnership, above 81% 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
There is little gap on unpaid carers: 12%, about the same as across Scotland’s towns. 115 people give 50 hours or more of unpaid care a week. Across Scotland’s towns, adults who have never married come to 40%.
17% of adults hold a degree-level qualification
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2022.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
Degree-level qualifications are held by 17% of Invergordon’s adults, against 32% across Scotland’s towns; 23% have no qualification (17%).
Among 531 UK towns of 3,000 to 5,000 people, the 164th youngest
Median age, Census 2022. Hover a dot for its students and residents born abroad; click for its page.
Bailrigg is the youngest (18.9); Milford on Sea the oldest (64.6). Nearest to Invergordon in age: Bar Hill (44.2), Charvil (44.2), Healing (44.4) and Sapcote (44.4).
Around Invergordon, 2 of 3 towns have a higher median age
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
- “Highland’s towns” and “Scotland’s towns” mean their towns. Census comparisons pool every locality in Highland (or Scotland), summed the same way as Invergordon’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 Invergordon’s residents
What is the population of Invergordon?
The 2022 Census counted 3,801 people in Invergordon’s locality.
What is the average age in Invergordon?
The median age was 44.3 at the 2022 Census, younger than 51% of UK towns. 11% of residents were 15 to 24 and 21% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Invergordon?
93% of residents described themselves as White British in 2022, against 86% across Scotland’s towns and 90% across Highland’s towns. 6.4% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Invergordon?
56% said they had no religion and 37% that they were Christian at the 2022 Census; 0.5% were Muslim and 6.3% didn’t answer.
Is Invergordon good for families?
23% of households had dependent children in 2022, against 24% across Scotland’s towns. Schools are on Invergordon’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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