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Johnshaven population

670people · latest estimate

By James Burfield, SEO consultant, Bath · Page updated · GeoNames · World Gazetteer 2005

Johnshaven has a population of 670, making it the 55th largest place in Aberdeenshire. In 2005 the World Gazetteer recorded 641, a rise of 4.5% since.

641
in 2005
+4.5%
since 2005
#55
of 63 in Aberdeenshire

The other populations of Johnshaven

The same name covers more than one area, and each has its own figure.

What you meanPopulationSource
The place itself
The populated settlement, roughly the built-up core.
670 GeoNames
The place in 2005
The same settlement twenty years earlier.
641 World Gazetteer (2005)

Why these differ: which population figure is right? · compare with another place

The 2005 figure is from the World Gazetteer archive and may draw its boundary differently from the current source, so treat the change as indicative. Sources: method.

Year-by-year official estimates for the wider area: Aberdeenshire population trends, 2001–2024.

Johnshaven in context

5 km
north-east to Gourdon, the nearest larger town
7,710
people live within 10 km
#4,729
largest of 6,358 UK places
Johnshaven in the UK

Distances are straight-line from the settlement's recorded coordinates. The 10 km figure sums the recorded places within that radius, so it describes how built-up the surroundings are rather than people per square kilometre.

The population, measured on a real boundary

What you meanPopulationSource
Johnshaven locality
NRS census geography: the continuously built-up Johnshaven
663Census 2022
Johnshaven (GeoNames record)
the figure in this page's heading; boundary unstated
670GeoNames

The locality figure is Scotland's Census 2022, summed over the Scottish Postcode Directory's own postcodes for this locality; across all of Scotland that method lands within 601 people of the national census total. Where the two rows disagree, the census locality is the figure to quote.

Food and drink, from the register

CategoryCountPer 10,000
Restaurants and cafés115.1
Pubs and bars115.1
Hotels and B&Bs115.1

Registered food establishments in the Johnshaven locality, from the Food Standards Agency register. Scotland runs the Food Hygiene Information Scheme (pass or improvement required) rather than England's 0–5 scores, which changes nothing here: these are counts of premises, not judgments of them.

Age profile

MeasureValue
Median age (exact)48
Under 1518.5%
65 and over21.7%
85 and over0.9%

Scotland's Census 2022 publishes single year of age at output-area level, so this median is exact — the middle resident's actual age, with nothing interpolated. England's published tables stop at five-year bands, which is why English pages label their medians estimated and this one is not. Percentiles compare the 90 Scottish towns of 10,000+ residents with each other, never with England or Wales: their figures are a different census year, and a percentile that quietly mixed the two would be a lie with a percent sign.

Who owns the homes

Measure% of households
Owned, outright or with a mortgage67.7%
  of which owned outright38.6%
Social rented25.8%
Private rented5.6%
Household has no car or van14.1%
Household has two or more37.6%

Scotland's Census 2022, over the 306 occupied households of the locality. Shared ownership and shared equity count with mortgaged homes; every share is of households, not residents.

Deprivation

The middle postcode here sits in decile 6 of the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation, where decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of Scotland's data zones and 10 the least. 0% of the locality's postcodes sit in the most deprived three deciles, 0% in the least deprived three.

SIMD 2020, Scotland's own index — never comparable with England's IMD, and never compared here. Weighted by postcodes rather than people, because the postcode file carries no population, and said so for the same reason the postcode-district pages say it.

Go deeper

Population since 2001
Aberdeenshire, year by year from ONS estimates

Nearby in Aberdeenshire

#PlacePopulation
1Bridgend740
2Tarland720
3Stuartfield700
4Gardenstown670
5Saint Combs660
6New Deer660

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