Kilsyth and Cumbernauld - Demographic Profile:
The 2001 census has just been published, and is available on-line at www.gro-scotland.gov.uk.
Latest figures for the settlement of Kilsyth show that the average age is 38, there are more women (5,295) than men (4,718) and the population has fallen by 2% in the past ten years from 10,013 to 9,816. However, the birth rate is higher than average, with 6.24% of the population aged under five, compared with the Scottish average of 5.47%.
More than one in five of the population is aged over 60 years, (21.1%) with a similar number aged under 18 (22.4%)
50% of adults are married, whilst 6.5 % are cohabiting (living together). 5% are divorced, 3% separated, and over 9% are widowed. 25% of adults are unmarried.
| 2001 Census information for Kilsyth, Croy and Cumbernauld - KS17 Cars or vans | |||||||
| All households | |||||||
| Settlement/Locality | Percentage of households (number of cars or vans) | ||||||
| All households | None | One | Two | Three | Four or more | All cars or vans in the area2 | |
| Scotland | 2,192,246 | 34.23 | 43.35 | 18.62 | 2.98 | 0.82 | 2,044,018 |
| Croy | 298 | 60.74 | 30.20 | 7.05 | 2.01 | - | 150 |
| Cumbernauld | 19,839 | 31.03 | 44.55 | 20.91 | 2.91 | 0.60 | 19,405 |
| Kilsyth | 4,144 | 38.30 | 41.02 | 16.70 | 3.02 | 0.97 | 3,629 |
Analysis - Kilsyth has a higher number of households without a car than the average. Croy has a very low number of car-owning households, whilst Cumbernauld has almost one car per household.
KCC is continuing to analyse the census, and will bring you more information when this work is completed.
Other data from older surveys:
The area has a fairly typical
Scottish population profile, with a significant
number of people in rental
housing, larger families, and less of a gap between better-off and poorer
neighbourhoods. We spend more on food, children's clothing, furniture and
social clubs, have fewer cars, spend less on investments, pubs and
computers than the UK average, and have much less ethic diversity. We
spend £215M in the shops each year - not counting housing, utilities,
leisure, holidays, cars and entertainment etc. But we also have more
people living in deprived council estates than average, and our pensioners
are poorer than the UK as a whole. Logically we should have more good
shops in the area, but a lot of that money is escaping to Glasgow,
Stirling and Falkirk!
Employment: Kilsyth enjoys amongst the highest levels of employment in both Scotland and North Lanarkshire areas: However the low official unemployment figures mask an underlying workless rate of 20% of adults who are not working for one reason or another, including ill-health or caring responsibilities: |
|
| Unemployed | Croy and Kilsyth South:
5.7%
Queenzieburn and Kilsyth West: 4.3% Banton and Kilsyth East: 3.4% Nth Lanarkshire: 5.8% |
Household SEG: (economic group) |
|
| I - Professional | 2.7% |
| II - Managerial/Technical | 24.5% |
| III - Skilled (non-manual) | 27.1% |
| IIIM - Skilled (manual) | 23.6% |
| IV - Partly Skilled | 15.4% |
| V - Unskilled | 5.6% |
Misc: |
|
| Own Residence | 58.0% |
| Rent Residence | 42.1% |
