Photo: Lucas Kendall · CC BY-SA 2.019% of households have dependent children, below 96% of UK towns
Residents who describe themselves as White British are more common here than in 89% of UK towns. Keith had 4,554 residents in 2,284 households at the 2022 Census. Census figures put one-person households at 45% here. With residents aged 65 and over at 26%, Keith is ahead of 77% of UK towns on that count.
A median age of 48.3: Keith is older than 76% of UK towns
Share of residents in each five-year age band, Census 2022.
The biggest five-year age group is 55–59, with 7.5% of residents. Keith has more residents aged 15 to 24 than 75% of UK towns, at 11%. In Forres, the oldest of Moray’s towns by this measure, it is 27%.
Median age of UK towns of 2,500+
■ Keith, 48.3. The typical town is 44.4.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
53% women, 47% men
About 90 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.
Keith sits below 94% of UK towns for full-time students (3.6%)
What adults did at the 2022 Census (the NS-SEC classes).
Adults by occupation class · residents 16 and over
Managerial and professional jobs account for just over a fifth of Keith’s adults, routine and semi-routine work for 38%, against 33% and 25% across Scotland’s towns. The usual figure: nearly one in ten adults are full-time students across Scotland’s towns.
Households here average 2 people, below 98% of UK towns
Household make-up at the 2022 Census. Each square is 1% of households.
Against Moray’s towns and Scotland’s towns
People per household
Scotland’s towns.
Where 3.5% of households are unrelated adults sharing a home across Scotland’s towns, Keith has 1.8%.
In Keith, 23% of households have no car or van, more than in 82% 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
Nearly two in five households live in a flat or apartment across Scotland’s towns, against 9.5% in Keith. The wider picture: 29% of households have no car or van across Scotland’s towns. Households in terraced houses: 26% of the total. On households in detached houses, Keith sits higher than 53% of UK towns: 30%.
3.7% of residents were born outside the UK, below 81% 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
Born abroad and arrived since 2017: 30% of that group, against 34% across Scotland’s towns. The share of residents whose main language is English stands at 99%. The comparison figure for residents born outside the UK is 11% across Scotland’s towns.
No religion: 53% of residents, a higher share than 97% 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: 96% of Keith · Moray’s towns 93% · Scotland’s towns 86%.
Religion · all residents
The next-largest groups, after White British, are Other White (2.6%), Chinese (0.4%) and Mixed or multiple (0.3%). Residents with no religion make up 51% across Scotland’s towns. At 41%, the share of residents who describe themselves as Christian is lower than in 90% of UK towns.
Only 44% of adults are married or in a civil partnership in Keith
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
98 residents care, unpaid, for at least 50 hours a week. On unpaid carers, Keith sits higher than 56% of UK towns: 9.6%. Elsewhere, just over two in five adults are married or in a civil partnership across Scotland’s towns. Adults who have never married make up 33%, against 40% across Scotland’s towns.
Degree-level qualifications: 18% of adults
Highest qualification, residents 16 and over, Census 2022.
Highest qualification · residents 16 and over
26% of Keith’s adults have no qualification (17% across Scotland’s towns), and 18% have one at degree level (32%).
Of 696 UK towns its size (3,000 to 6,000 people), the 256th oldest
Median age, Census 2022. Hover a dot for its students and residents born abroad; click for its page.
Bailrigg is the youngest (18.9); Sutton on Sea and Trusthorpe the oldest (64.7). Nearest to Keith in age: Ilminster (48.3), Llantrisant (48.3), Wigton (48.4) and Mytholmroyd (48.4).
Nearby, 1 of 2 towns have older populations than Keith
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
- “Moray’s towns” and “Scotland’s towns” mean their towns. Census comparisons pool every locality in Moray (or Scotland), summed the same way as Keith’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 Keith’s residents
What is the population of Keith?
The 2022 Census counted 4,554 people in Keith’s locality.
What is the average age in Keith?
The median age was 48.3 at the 2022 Census, older than 76% of UK towns. 11% of residents were 15 to 24 and 26% were 65 or over.
How diverse is Keith?
96% of residents described themselves as White British in 2022, against 86% across Scotland’s towns and 93% across Moray’s towns. 3.7% were born outside the UK.
What religion are people in Keith?
53% said they had no religion and 41% that they were Christian at the 2022 Census; 0.1% were Muslim and 5.2% didn’t answer.
Is Keith good for families?
19% of households had dependent children in 2022, against 24% across Scotland’s towns. Schools are on Keith’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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