Population & Equalities Data
Information for Professionals
Brief
Purpose of the brief:
To give an overview of the structure of the population of Lanarkshire, the health impacts of the changing population structure, and highlight areas of work that are happening to consider the impacts of these population changes.
Purpose of the brief:
To provide up-to-date statistics and analysis on protected characteristics within the Lanarkshire population, supporting inclusive decision-making and compliance with equality legislation by summarising key demographic, health, and social data for local planning and policy.
Purpose of the brief:
To provide a summary of Gender-Based Violence data in Scotland and highlight our local and national initiatives designed to tackle this issue.
Resources
Scotland’s Census
Scotland data is available through census maps, census data and reports.
Maps allow selection of geographical area, providing data on accommodation type, adult lifestyle, age, sex, household composition, household tenure, living arrangements, marital and civil partnership status, UK armed forces veterans. To access further data searches are available to be filtered down by date, location and topic i.e. Education, labour market, travel to work, health, sexual orientation, ethnic group, housing etc. With Reports available covering all of the above topic areas.
ScotPHO Profiles – Indicators for public Health
ScotPHO Profiles – Indicators for public Health
The site provides an interactive tool to set and compare key indicators within North and South Lanarkshire. Covering a wide variety of midyear population estimates, by age range from 0 to 75+, primary school children, secondary school children and Live births.
National records of Scotland (NRS) – data on population structure
National Records for Scotland collect and report on data in relation to Scotland’s people and history, to inform current and future generations.
Providing access to records and archives, learning and events, publications, statistics and data. A wide range of data is available on the population of Scotland, the age, sex and structure of the population, population change and why these changes are occurring i.e. birth rates, death rates, people moving in and out of Scotland etc.
File downloads are available at the bottom of the page that has raw data broken down to council and Health board level.
Office of national statistics – data on population, society and the labour market
Provides detailed information about Scotland’s population, covering a variety of topics. Allowing data to be filtered by age, sex and geographical location.
Director of Public Health Annual Report and Statistical Appendices
Reports on work across Lanarkshire to prevent disease, promote health and wellbeing and protection for the population of Lanarkshire from health-related threats. Accompanied with appendices, also available within the downloads.
Marmot: Scotland’s Collaboration for Health Equity (CHES)
South Lanarkshire is proud to be one of only three areas in Scotland designated as a Marmot Place for 2025–26. This national collaboration between Public Health Scotland, the Institute of Health Equity and three local areas supports action at both local and national levels to tackle the root causes of health inequalities, guided by the eight Marmot Principles.
More information can be found about the programme: https://publichealthscotland.scot/population-health/environmental-health-impacts/collaboration-for-health-equity-in-scotland/background/
The reports, highlighting inequalities in Scotland, and South Lanarkshire can be found here: https://www.instituteofhealthequity.org/resources-reports/scotland—collaboration-for-health-equity-ches
Scotland’s official statistics – open access datasets
- statistics.gov.scot website – Open access to Scotland’s official statistics
Explore, visualise and download over 250 datasets from a range of producers. Start browsing by Population, organisation, or geography. You can also access programmatically using our APIs for use and re-use of the data, or by using the opendatascot R package.
North Lanarkshire
Joint Strategic Commissioning Plan
The Strategic Commissioning Plan sets out how the Health & Social Care Partnership plans and delivers services for North Lanarkshire. The Plan provides data on population change, life expectancy trends, poverty and deprivation, along with critical public-health indicators such as the drug-related death rate and alcohol-related mortality.
The document also contains the Strategic Needs Analysis, P33, presenting data on demographics, population projections, life expectancy, care-at-home provision, unscheduled care activity, self-directed support, delayed discharge trends, and long-term conditions. It further explores the needs of children and young people, mental health, care in the last six months of life, outpatient activity, cancer incidence, births and deaths, smoking prevalence, primary care demand, and broader health inequalities.
North Lanarkshire Council Area Profiles
Provides community profiles for Airdrie, Bellshill, Coatbridge, Cumbernauld, Kilsyth, Motherwell, Northern Corridor, Shotts, Wishaw. Statistical information on Lanarkshire boards covering: Population, Household and Housing, Employment, deprivation, Elderly, pension credit, culture and mapping.
North Lanarkshire HSCP Locality Profiles
Provides Locality profiles for Airdrie, Coatbridge, Bellshill, North, Motherwell and Wishaw. Each locality provides information and statistics on health and social care related indicators across North Lanarkshire Council and North Lanarkshire Health and Social Care Partnership. Data is available on Lanarkshire’s population, Life Expectancy, poverty and deprivation, mother and baby indicators, Early deaths, Hospital Admissions and Benefits.
North Lanarkshire Council Population page
Access information on statistics and population projections. Covering ward populations, settlement and life expectancy across North Lanarkshire Council and North Lanarkshire Health and Social Care Partnership.
North Lanarkshire – GIS Open Data, open spatial data site
North Lanarkshire Council – GIS Open Data
The open map data sharing portal gives access to data relating to the area. Discover, search, view, and download a variety of council geospatial and tubular data.
South Lanarkshire
Facts and Figures about South Lanarkshire
Using our area profiling tool you can explore a wide range of statistics about South Lanarkshire’s population and local areas. The Dashboard provides statistics through interactive reports. Our interactive map displays the results from the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD) for the South Lanarkshire area. You can also run a summary report of all SIMD rankings for each area by using the drop-down menu or by selecting your area on the map.
