Shetland Islands · Scotland
Symbister population
797people · latest estimate
Symbister has a population of 797, making it the 4th largest place in Shetland Islands. In 2005 the World Gazetteer recorded 744, a rise of 7.1% since.
The other populations of Symbister
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. |
797 | GeoNames |
| The place in 2005 The same settlement twenty years earlier. |
744 | 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: Shetland Islands population trends, 2001–2024.
Symbister in context
22 km
south to Lerwick, the nearest larger town
797
people live within 10 km
#4,395
largest of 6,358 UK places
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.