ONS · One year: mid-2024 to mid-2025 · Local authority
Where is Britain growing fastest?
Change in the resident population of each local authority between two published mid-year estimates. Both years are published figures; the difference and the percentage are a Civometry calculation. No year is interpolated, and an area missing either estimate is shown as no data.
Midlothian
+0.7%Population change, per cent
The population of Midlothian changed by +0.7% between the two published estimates (One year: mid-2024 to mid-2025) — joint 113th highest of 350 areas with a published figure.
- Area
- Midlothian (S12000019)
- Population change, per cent
- +0.7%
- Rank
- joint 113th highest of 350 areas with a published figure; 11 more areas have no published figure
- Percentile
- 64% of areas with a figure are below it
- Period
- One year: mid-2024 to mid-2025
- Release
- NISRA mid-year estimates (mid-2024 edition); NRS mid-year estimates time series (mid-2025 edition); ONS mid-year estimates, mid-2025 edition (2023 boundaries)
- Published by
- ONS
- Status
- Civometry calculation on published figures
The population of Midlothian changed by +0.7% between the two published estimates (One year: mid-2024 to mid-2025) — joint 113th highest of 350 areas with a published figure. Civometry calculation using ONS figures.
Highest areas
| # | Area | % change |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rugby · profile | +2.4% |
| 2 | Mid Suffolk · profile | +2.1% |
| 3 | Tewkesbury · profile | +2.0% |
| 4 | Harborough · profile | +1.9% |
| 5 | South Derbyshire · profile | +1.9% |
| 6 | Uttlesford · profile | +1.9% |
| 7 | Vale of White Horse · profile | +1.9% |
| 8 | Burnley · profile | +1.8% |
| 9 | Central Bedfordshire · profile | +1.8% |
| 10 | Hartlepool · profile | +1.8% |
Lowest areas
| # | Area | % change |
|---|---|---|
| 350 | Isles of Scilly · profile | −3.5% |
| 349 | Camden · profile | −1.8% |
| 348 | Westminster · profile | −1.5% |
| 347 | Southwark · profile | −1.5% |
| 346 | Nottingham · profile | −1.5% |
| 345 | Lincoln · profile | −1.5% |
| 344 | Lambeth · profile | −1.4% |
| 343 | Middlesbrough · profile | −1.2% |
| 342 | Cambridge · profile | −1.2% |
| 341 | Welwyn Hatfield · profile | −1.1% |
All 350 areas, ranked
Ranked by population change, per cent, highest first; ties in alphabetical order. Areas without a value are not ranked.
What this map shows
350 of 361 local authority areas have a current value for all residents (population change, per cent), One year: mid-2024 to mid-2025. Classes are quantiles of the areas with data, computed on the server, so the same link always gives the same legend.
The whole resident population of the area, all ages.
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- Data
- Population estimates for the UK and constituent countries: historical time series (ONS).
- Denominator
- The earlier published mid-year estimate for the same area. Population estimates for the UK and constituent countries: historical time series.
- Boundaries
- ONS Open Geography Portal generalised boundaries, Open Government Licence v3.0 (2025-05 BGC v2 LAD_MAY_2025_UK_BGC_V2).
- Basemap
- Ordnance Survey Maps API (Light), used under the OS Data Hub terms.
- Formula
- (later published estimate − earlier published estimate) ÷ earlier estimate × 100
- Stale areas
- Both years are taken from the same published edition of the mid-year estimates. An area without an estimate for either year is no data, with the missing year named.
- Method
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