South Ayrshire · Scotland
Loans population
730people · latest estimate
Loans has a population of 730, making it the 14th largest place in South Ayrshire. In 2005 the World Gazetteer recorded 825, a fall of 11.5% since.
The other populations of Loans
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. |
730 | GeoNames |
| The place in 2005 The same settlement twenty years earlier. |
825 | World Gazetteer (2005) |
Why these differ: which population figure is right? · compare with another place
Year-by-year official estimates for the wider area: South Ayrshire population trends, 2001–2024.
Loans 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Loans locality NRS census geography: the continuously built-up Loans | 641 | Census 2022 |
| Loans (GeoNames record) the figure in this page's heading; boundary unstated | 730 | 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.
Food and drink, from the register
| Category | Count | Per 10,000 |
|---|---|---|
| Restaurants and cafés | 1 | 15.6 |
| Pubs and bars | 1 | 15.6 |
Registered food establishments in the Loans 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
| Measure | Value |
|---|---|
| Median age (exact) | 56 |
| Under 15 | 10.5% |
| 65 and over | 33.6% |
| 85 and over | 3.8% |
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 | 90.4% |
| of which owned outright | 60.5% |
| Social rented | 5.1% |
| Private rented | 4.1% |
| Household has no car or van | 12.7% |
| Household has two or more | 41.7% |
Scotland's Census 2022, over the 314 occupied households of the locality. Shared ownership and shared equity count with mortgaged homes; every share is of households, not residents.