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Glasgow City Region

Residents born outside the UK in the Glasgow City Region
pop nonUK COB GCRIt is estimated that, in the period 2020-21, 14% of Glasgow’s population were born outside the UK, compared to 6% or less in the other local authorities in the Glasgow City Region. The percentage of Glasgow's residents who were not born in the UK has risen steadily since the early 2000s but reduced in the last year. 

In Scotland people from the EU make up roughly half of non-UK nationals and Poles make up the largest grouping of non-UK nationals.

Percentage of the population born outside the UK in Glasgow City Region local authorities, 2001 and 2011
Population of Glasgow City Region, born outside the UK, 2001 and 2011The percentage of the population born outside the UK increased in all local authorities in the Glasgow City Region, except for South Lanarkshire where there was a decrease (from 4.3% to 3.4%). Glasgow had the highest percentage of the population born outside the UK in 2001 and 2011 (6% and 12%, respectively).

Notes

The figures presented in the first graph above are estimates based on survey data and exclude certain population groups (students in halls who do not have a UK resident parent and people in most other types of communal establishments e.g. hotels, boarding houses, hostels and mobile home sites). The data used in these charts were originally published by National Records of Scotland.  

The second graph shows trend comparisons based on the 2001 and 2011 Censuses and so the data are less up-to-date.

Further reading under ‘Born outside the UK’