Population Statistics
HomeUKPerth and KinrossMuthill

Perth and Kinross · Scotland

Muthill population

760people · latest estimate

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

Muthill has a population of 760, making it the 27th largest place in Perth and Kinross. In 2005 the World Gazetteer recorded 668, a rise of 13.8% since.

668
in 2005
+13.8%
since 2005
#27

The other populations of Muthill

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.
760 GeoNames
The place in 2005
The same settlement twenty years earlier.
668 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: Perth and Kinross population trends, 2001–2024.

Muthill in context

5 km
north to Crieff, the nearest larger town
17,130
people live within 10 km
#4,485
largest of 6,358 UK places
Muthill 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
Muthill locality
NRS census geography: the continuously built-up Muthill
675Census 2022
Muthill (GeoNames record)
the figure in this page's heading; boundary unstated
760GeoNames

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 cafés229.6
Hotels and B&Bs114.8

Registered food establishments in the Muthill 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)50
Under 1518.7%
65 and over27.1%
85 and over6.2%

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 mortgage74.9%
  of which owned outright43.5%
Social rented12.0%
Private rented12.4%
Household has no car or van17.1%
Household has two or more45.2%

Scotland's Census 2022, over the 299 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 home32.1%
Car or van (of those who travelled)84.5%
Public transport (of those who travelled)5.3%
On foot (of those who travelled)7.7%
Bicycle (of those who travelled)0.0%

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 305 employed residents who travelled, never of everyone.

Care homes, as Scotland's regulator grades them

Care homes for older people in the locality, by their lowest current grade: 1 adequate.

The Care Inspectorate's six-point scale (excellent down to unsatisfactory), shown by each service's minimum current grade because that is the Inspectorate's own headline convention. Scotland's regulator and scale, never translated into the CQC's words.

Go deeper

Population since 2001
Perth and Kinross, year by year from ONS estimates

Nearby in Perth and Kinross

#PlacePopulation
1Methven1,200
2Dunning930
3Glenfarg770
4Blackford760
5Burrelton690
6Crook of Devon630

All 34 places in Perth and Kinross →