Scotland

Aberdeen City: house prices, jobs and local statistics

Aberdeen City is a council area in Scotland. The average house price was £130,689 in July 2026, down 8.7% on a year earlier and down 17.0% on five years before. On the ONS figure for July 2026 it had the 358th highest average price of 360 council areas. 3.8% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming unemployment-related benefits in August 2026, against 3.9% across the UK. Median full-time pay for people living here was £40,020 a year in 2025 (UK: £39,039). The biggest employing sector is health & social care, with 16.5% of the 157,600 employee jobs counted in 2024.

Census figures here cover England and Wales only: Scotland's census was held in 2022 and is published by National Records of Scotland.
The health and education indicators shown for English councils are published for England only.

Aberdeen City house prices

Average price, July 2026

£130,689

Scotland: £196,349

Change over 1 year

−8.7%

Scotland: +2.3%

Change over 5 years

−17.0%

Since July 2021

Detached: £299,438
Semi-detached: £180,789
Terraced: £145,174
Flat or maisonette: £92,897
First-time buyers: £110,389

UK House Price Index, July 2026: HM Land Registry, Registers of Scotland, Land and Property Services NI and the ONS. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. About the index.

Ten years of prices and sales in the house price explorer

Jobs, pay and unemployment in Aberdeen City

Claimant rate, August 2026

3.8%

5,815 people aged 16 to 64. UK: 3.9%

Employment rate, Apr 2025-Mar 2026

77.3%

UK: 75.4% · Annual Population Survey

Economically inactive

20.1%

UK: 21.0%

Median full-time pay, 2025

£40,020 a year

UK: £39,039

Median weekly pay, 2025

£782

UK: £767

The claimant count is people claiming unemployment-related benefits as a share of residents aged 16 to 64; the unemployment rate is the survey measure of people out of work and looking. Pay is for full-time employees who live in the area.

Claimant count, Annual Population Survey and Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (resident analysis), via Nomis. Source: Office for National Statistics, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Two years of claimant counts and ten of pay in the jobs explorer

What Aberdeen City does for a living

Employee jobs, 2024

157,600

169,950 in 2019

Businesses, 2026

7,760

Largest sectors by share of employee jobs, 2024
Sector	Share of jobs	Great Britain
Health & social care	16.5%	14.1%
Professional & scientific	13.3%	9.2%
Mining & quarrying	12.7%	0.1%
Retail, wholesale & motor trade	10.2%	13.6%
Hotels, pubs & restaurants	8.2%	7.8%
Admin & support services	7.6%	8.5%

Business Register and Employment Survey 2024 (Great Britain only). UK Business Counts 2026. Both via Nomis. Source: Office for National Statistics, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Every sector and business size in the industries explorer

How Aberdeen City has changed

Residents
214,120 in 1991 → 231,780 in 2024 (+8.2%)
Scotland over the same years: +9.1%
Average house price
£109,672 in 2005 → £130,689 in 2026 (+19.2%)
Scotland over the same years: +84.3%
Median weekly pay
£385 in 2008 → £640 in 2025 (+66.2%)
Scotland over the same years: +70.4%
Employment rate
74.3% in 2004 → 74.7% in 2023 (+0.5%)
Scotland over the same years: +2.9%
Claimant count
1.8% in 2001 → 3.3% in 2025 (+83.3%)
Scotland over the same years: −9.1%
Disposable income per head
£10,167 in 1997 → £23,466 in 2024 (+130.8%)
Scotland over the same years: +153.7%

ONS Explore local statistics, each series from its official producer; Office for National Statistics content licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Money figures are in cash terms, not adjusted for inflation.

Every series, charted, in the trends explorer

How Aberdeen City ranks among UK councils

30 official indicators are published for Aberdeen City; 23 of them have a better and a worse direction and are ranked here. A rank of 1st is the best (lowest unemployment, highest pay, and so on).

Where it ranks best

No qualifications · Education & skills2.1% (2023) · 7th lowest of 293
Children in relative poverty · Economy & work11.9% (2024/25) · 13th lowest of 363
Job density · Economy & work1.12 jobs per resident (2024) · 24th highest of 350
High-growth businesses · Economy & work6.0% (2024) · 51st highest of 361

Where it ranks worst

Three-year business survival · Economy & work51.7% (2021) · 285th highest of 374
Anxiety · Health & wellbeing3.4 out of 10 (2022/23) · 267th lowest of 363
Life satisfaction · Health & wellbeing7.4 out of 10 (2022/23) · 263rd highest of 363
Employment rate · Economy & work74.7% (2023) · 218th highest of 348

ONS Explore local statistics, latest figure for each indicator, ranked among council areas with a published figure; Office for National Statistics content licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0, each indicator’s producer named on its linked ONS page.

All 30 indicators in the area scorecard

About these figures

Aberdeen City (S12000033) is a council area in Scotland, one of 361 council areas this site covers. Every figure on this page is read from the official source named beneath it and carries its own date; the page is rebuilt at most once a day. Survey figures carry sampling error, so small differences between neighbouring councils are often noise. For a single street or neighbourhood rather than the whole council area, search a postcode on the dashboard.

Sources

HM Land Registry UK House Price Index (landregistry.data.gov.uk). Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right, OGL v3.0.
Office for National Statistics via Nomis (nomisweb.co.uk): claimant count, Annual Population Survey, ASHE, BRES, UK Business Counts and Census 2021. Source: Office for National Statistics, OGL v3.0.
ONS Explore local statistics (ons.gov.uk/explore-local-statistics), OGL v3.0.
Council area names and codes: mySociety, UK local authority names and codes (CC BY 4.0), from the ONS Register of Geographic Codes.