Scotland
Renfrewshire: house prices, jobs and local statistics
Renfrewshire is a council area in Scotland. 3.0% 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 £39,734 a year in 2025 (UK: £39,039). The biggest employing sector is retail, wholesale & motor trade, with 15.1% of the 85,975 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.
- House prices are not available for this area at the moment.
Jobs, pay and unemployment in Renfrewshire
Claimant rate, August 2026
3.0%
3,625 people aged 16 to 64. UK: 3.9%
Employment rate, Apr 2025-Mar 2026
69.1%
UK: 75.4% · Annual Population Survey
Unemployment rate, Apr 2025-Mar 2026
4.0%
UK: 4.5%
Economically inactive
28.0%
UK: 21.0%
Median full-time pay, 2025
£39,734 a year
UK: £39,039
Median weekly pay, 2025
£797
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 explorerWhat Renfrewshire does for a living
Employee jobs, 2024
85,975
86,110 in 2019
Businesses, 2026
4,765
| Sector | Share of jobs | Great Britain |
|---|---|---|
| Retail, wholesale & motor trade | 15.1% | 13.6% |
| Health & social care | 15.1% | 14.1% |
| Admin & support services | 11.6% | 8.5% |
| Manufacturing | 10.5% | 7.2% |
| Transport & storage | 7.0% | 4.9% |
| Hotels, pubs & restaurants | 7.0% | 7.8% |
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 explorerHow Renfrewshire has changed
Residents
175,690 in 1991 → 189,170 in 2024 (+7.7%)
Scotland over the same years: +9.1%
Average house price
£90,906 in 2005 → £159,992 in 2026 (+76.0%)
Scotland over the same years: +84.3%
Median weekly pay
£395 in 2008 → £654 in 2025 (+65.4%)
Scotland over the same years: +70.4%
Employment rate
72.6% in 2004 → 76.8% in 2023 (+5.8%)
Scotland over the same years: +2.9%
Claimant count
3.3% in 2001 → 2.7% in 2025 (−18.2%)
Scotland over the same years: −9.1%
Disposable income per head
£9,159 in 1997 → £22,200 in 2024 (+142.4%)
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 explorerHow Renfrewshire ranks among UK councils
30 official indicators are published for Renfrewshire; 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
- Children in relative poverty · Economy & work12.7% (2024/25) · 19th lowest of 363
- Gigabit broadband · Connectivity & access96.7% (January 2026) · 28th highest of 361
- Qualified to A level or above · Education & skills77.9% (2023) · 45th highest of 348
- Public EV chargers · Connectivity & access242.6 per 100,000 (mid-2026) · 55th highest of 361
Where it ranks worst
- Smokers · Health & wellbeing14.0% (2020 to 2024) · 312th lowest of 373
- 4G coverage · Connectivity & access99.5% (January 2026) · 289th highest of 361
- Healthy life expectancy, women · Health & wellbeing56.5 years (2022 to 2024) · 152nd highest of 195
- Healthy life expectancy, men · Health & wellbeing56.5 years (2022 to 2024) · 153rd highest of 195
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 scorecardNearby council areas
Other council areas in Scotland
- Aberdeen City
- Aberdeenshire
- Angus
- Argyll and Bute
- City of Edinburgh
- Clackmannanshire
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Dundee City
- East Ayrshire
- East Dunbartonshire
- East Lothian
- East Renfrewshire
- Eilean Siar
- Falkirk
- Fife
- Glasgow City
- Highland
- Inverclyde
- Midlothian
- Moray
- North Ayrshire
- North Lanarkshire
- Orkney Islands
- Perth and Kinross
- Shetland Islands
- South Ayrshire
- South Lanarkshire
- Stirling
- The Scottish Borders
- West Dunbartonshire
- West Lothian
About these figures
Renfrewshire (S12000038) 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.