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Inverclyde Council

Local authority area: Inverclyde · Inbhir Chluaidh

Inverclyde is a scottish council area in Scotland. It covers 160.4 km² and had 77,800 residents in 2019 — about 485 people per km². The authority dates from 1996. The council is based in Greenock.

Town hall in the administrative centreGreenock Municipal Buildings
Greenock Municipal Buildings
Photo: Thomas Nugent · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
People

Population

Estimates recorded for Inverclyde, 2001–2019.

Residents, 201977,800-7.5% since 2001
Land area160.4km²62.0 sq mi
Density485/ km²people per square kilometre
Rank by population#359of 382 UK councils · #28 in Scotland
Population estimates19 data points
82.3K82.1K82K81.7K81.5K81.2K80.7K80.3K79.9K79.5K79.2K78.8K78.2K77.8K
20062007200820092010201120122013201420152016201720182019
History

How the council came to be

  1. 1996
    Created

    Inverclyde became a local authority area.

Elections

7 electoral wards

All wards of Inverclyde

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Council offices

Offices, town halls and local council offices in the area.

Westminster

Constituencies

Source: Wikidata Q208271 (CC0)Figures as recorded with their reference year; boundaries may have changed since.