Auldearn has a population of 660, making it the 48th largest place in Highland. In 2005 the World Gazetteer recorded 560, a rise of 17.9% since.
The other populations of Auldearn
The same name covers more than one area, and each has its own figure.
| What you mean | Population | Source |
|---|---|---|
| The place itself The populated settlement, roughly the built-up core. |
660 | GeoNames |
| The place in 2005 The same settlement twenty years earlier. |
560 | World Gazetteer (2005) |
Why these differ: which population figure is right? · compare with another place
Year-by-year official estimates for the wider area: Highland population trends, 2001–2024.
Auldearn 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Auldearn locality NRS census geography: the continuously built-up Auldearn | 703 | Census 2022 |
| Auldearn (GeoNames record) the figure in this page's heading; boundary unstated | 660 | 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) | 45 |
| Under 15 | 16.7% |
| 65 and over | 22.1% |
| 85 and over | 2.2% |
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 | 72.3% |
| of which owned outright | 36.5% |
| Social rented | 18.6% |
| Private rented | 6.0% |
| Household has no car or van | 8.8% |
| Household has two or more | 42.5% |
Scotland's Census 2022, over the 318 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 | 33.3% |
| Car or van (of those who travelled) | 79.4% |
| Public transport (of those who travelled) | 5.7% |
| On foot (of those who travelled) | 7.0% |
| Bicycle (of those who travelled) | 4.4% |
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 342 employed residents who travelled, never of everyone.
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Nearby in Highland
| # | Place | Population |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kirkhill | 670 |
| 2 | Fort Augustus | 670 |
| 3 | Rosemarkie | 660 |
| 4 | Nethy Bridge | 660 |
| 5 | Kyle of Lochalsh | 650 |
| 6 | Ballachulish | 650 |