HC Deb 13 February 1980 vol 978 cc698-700W
Mr. Cook

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland how many men over the age of 65 years and women over the age of 60 years reside in Scotland as a whole and in each district or islands authority area in Scotland.

Mr. Fairgrieve

The estimated populations for those age groups at 30 June 1978 are supplied in the table below. The estimates for mid-1979 are not yet available.

ESTIMATED POPULATION, REGIONS AND DISTRICTS, SCOTLAND, MID-1978
Region/District Males 65 and over Females 60 and over
SCOTLAND 270,000 582,400
Borders Region 6,900 14,200
Berwickshire 1,300 2,500
Ettrick and Lauderdale 2,200 4,600
Roxburgh 2,400 4,900
Tweeddale 1,000 2,200
Central Region 13,600 27,300
Clackmannan 2,100 4,500
Falkirk 7,500 14,500
Stirling 4,000 8,200
Dumfries and Galloway Region 8,500 17,000
Annandale and Eskdale 2,100 4,200
Nithsdale 3,100 6,400
Stewartry 1,500 3,000
Wigtown 1,700 3,400
Fife Region 18,300 36,700
Dunfermline 6,300 12,200
Kirkcaldy 7,800 15,500
North East Fife 4,200 9,000
Grampian Region 26,100 52,900
Aberdeen City 11,700 26,200
Banff and Buchan 4,500 8,300
Gordon 3,500 5,700
Kincardine and Deeside 2,400 4,400
Moray 4,100 8,200
Highland Region 10,200 19,800
Badenoch and Strathspey 600 1,200
Caithness 1,400 2,600
Inverness 2,700 5,700
Lochaber 1,000 1,900
Nairn 600 1,200
Ross and Cromarty 2,100 4,100
Skye and Lochalsh 800 1,400
Sutherland 1,000 1,800
Lothian Region 39,000 87,300
East Lothian 4,600 9,300
Edinburgh City 26,300 61,900
Midlothian 3,300 6,700
West Lothian 4,800 9,500
Strathclyde Region 119,500 268,200
Argyll and Bute 4,200 8,900
Bearsden and Milngavie 1,700 3,800
Clydebank 2,600 5,400
Cumbernauld and Kilsyth 1,500 3,200
Cumnock and Doon Valley 2,300 4,300
Cunninghame 6,200 13,800
Dumbarton 3,600 8,000
East Kilbride 2,200 5,200
Eastwood 2,900 6,100
Glasgow City 45,600 108,200
Hamilton 4,500 9,500
Inverclyde 4,900 11,400
Kilmarnock and Loudoun 4,100 8,800
Kyle and Carrick 6,300 14,000
Lanark 2,800 5,900
Monklands 4,600 9,700
Motherwell 7,100 15,000
Renfrew 9,000 20,300
Strathkelvin 3,300 6,700
Tayside Region 23,200 50,100
Angus 5,500 11,500
Dundee City 10,000 23,300
Perth and Kinross 7,600 15,400
Islands Councils 4,900 8,900
Orkney Islands 1,300 2,200
Shetland Islands 1,200 2,300
Western Isles 2,400 4,300
Note: Figures are rounded and may not therefore cast up.