The Population of East Lothian

Michael Anderson

The large numbers of in-migrants in this period were overwhelmingly white (only 0.4 per cent of the population was reported as non-white in 1991). Most had been born in Scotland (the percentage born in England and Wales rose only from 5.5 per cent to 7.5 per cent between 1951 and 1971). By far the largest source of in-migrants was the rest of Lothian Region, much of it linked to rising commuting to Edinburgh, with those moving into the county having a much more professional and middle class composition than either the resident population or movers within the county, who were more likely to have been in skilled manual occupations. One consequence of the outflows of the 1950s and 1960s was that the proportions born in East Lothian fell steadily. So too, presumably reflecting declining employment and ageing populations in the mining districts, did the number of those born in Fife, West Lothian, Lanarkshire and Stirling.

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