Dumfries and Galloway factual information
The following information is provided by Dumfries
and Galloway Council, Accounting Services:
- Dumfries and Galloway has a population of approximately 148,000.
- The largest town in the region is Dumfries with a
population of 31,600.
- The two other main towns are
Stranraer (10,800 pop.) and Annan (8,300 pop.).
- All other settlements
have populations of 4,500 or less.
- Population density is 60 people per square mile compared with the Scottish
average of 168.
- Agriculture accounts for 70% of the area with woodland covering another
25%.
- The local economy is primarily based on agriculture and forestry with
a range of light industries and tourism making significant contributions.
- The two major trunk toads in the region are the A74 (currently being
upgraded to motorway standards) and the A75 connection with Northern Ireland.
- Approximately 750,000 vehicles move through the area as a result of
the ferry crossing.
- There are over 4,000km of road and 1,437 bridges and culverts, 99 car
parks and 5 harbours along the 320km of coastline.
- If all the books borrowed from the region's libraries were piled on top
of each other they would make a pile four times the height of Mount Everest.