According to a new study by the BBC and Sheffield University, Edinburgh is the loneliest place to live in the UK. In "Changing UK: the Way We Live Now" researchers compiled and rated areas across Britain using official statistical data from the Census to show how Britons are more demographically segregated "than at any time since the computerisation of census data (1966)."

The City of Edinburgh has more pubs and more liquor licences than any other council area in Scotland according to new government statistics.

Figures for the population of Edinburgh released by the General Register Office for Scotland 13 March 2008.