Carnock has a population of 760, making it the 60th largest place in Fife.
Year-by-year official estimates for the wider area: Fife population trends, 2001–2024.
Carnock in context
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 mean | Population | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Carnock locality NRS census geography: the continuously built-up Carnock | 845 | Census 2022 |
| Carnock (GeoNames record) the figure in this page's heading; boundary unstated | 760 | GeoNames |
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.
Age profile
| Measure | Value |
|---|---|
| Median age (exact) | 52 |
| Under 15 | 13.1% |
| 65 and over | 29.7% |
| 85 and over | 2.4% |
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 mortgage | 89.9% |
| of which owned outright | 56.8% |
| Social rented | 6.0% |
| Private rented | 4.1% |
| Household has no car or van | 5.5% |
| Household has two or more | 54.4% |
Scotland's Census 2022, over the 366 occupied households of the locality. Shared ownership and shared equity count with mortgaged homes; every share is of households, not residents.
Getting to work
| How working residents travelled (census day) | Share |
|---|---|
| Worked mainly from home | 34.8% |
| Car or van (of those who travelled) | 91.4% |
| Public transport (of those who travelled) | 6.6% |
| On foot (of those who travelled) | 2.0% |
| Bicycle (of those who travelled) | 0.8% |
Scotland's Census 2022, collected 20 March 2022: past the last legal restrictions, but with home working still far above the old normal, so these are census-day records and mode shares are of the 374 employed residents who travelled, never of everyone.
Go deeper
Nearby in Fife
| # | Place | Population |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Strathmiglo | 900 |
| 2 | Comrie | 850 |
| 3 | Kingseat | 770 |
| 4 | Guardbridge | 660 |
| 5 | Gauldry | 660 |
| 6 | Strathkinness | 610 |