Scottish cities

Percentage of the population by trans status in selected Scottish cities

Dundee, of all the selected cities, has the highest percentage of the population with a trans status of either non-binary (0.46%), trans man (0.17%) or trans woman (0.14%). Those of other or unspecified trans history or gender identity (0.16%) are slightly greater in Glasgow than the other selected cities.

Around 93% of people aged 16 and over in the selected cities identify as ‘Not trans and does not have a trans history’ in Scotland (excluded from the above chart).

As the question on trans status was voluntary in the Scotland Census, around 6% of people aged 16 and over in each of the Scottish cities chose not to answer.

Notes

Transgender or trans is a term used to describe people whose gender is not the same as the sex they were assigned at birth.

Scotland’s Census included a new question on trans status or history in 2022 for people aged 16 and over. This means that we do not have comparable data for previous Censuses.

This section was last updated in December 2024.