Editing Airdrie, North Lanarkshire (section)

==Demography==
Historical records of Airdrie's population are available from the 18th,<ref>{{cite book|last1=Mack|first1=William|title=The statistical account of Scotland. Drawn up from the communications of the ministers of the different parishes|date=1791|publisher=William Creech|location=Edinburgh|pages=276–277|edition=Vol VII, number XXV|url=https://archive.org/stream/b21365799_007#page/276/mode/2up|access-date=4 January 2018}}</ref> the early decades of the 19th century,<ref name="William Blackwood and Sons"/> and into the early 20th century.<ref name="JamesKnox"/>{{rp|p=189}}

According to the [[United Kingdom Census 2001|2001 Census]],<ref name="airdriecensus">{{cite web|url=http://www.scrol.gov.uk/scrol/browser/profile.jsp?profile=Population&mainLevel=CouncilArea&mainArea=North+Lanarkshire&mainText=&mainTextExplicitMatch=null&compLevel=Locality&compText=airdrie&compTextExplicitMatch=false|title=Profile of Airdrie from Scotland's Census 2001|publisher=scrol.gov.uk|access-date=2009-01-28|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090325131739/http://www.scrol.gov.uk/scrol/browser/profile.jsp?profile=Population&mainLevel=CouncilArea&mainArea=North+Lanarkshire&mainText=&mainTextExplicitMatch=null&compLevel=Locality&compText=airdrie&compTextExplicitMatch=false|archive-date=25 March 2009|url-status = dead}}</ref> Airdrie's population of 36,326 was:
*47.31 male, 52.69% female.
*20.7% were under 16, 16.67% were pensioners.
*46.61% were married (first marriage), 29.81% were single.
*95.74% were born in Scotland or described their nationality as Scottish.
*0.42% spoke [[Scottish Gaelic|Gaelic]].