Beith is a village positioned in the Garnock Valley, North Ayrshire, Scotland roughly 20 miles (30 kilometres) south-west of Glasgow. The town is situated on the crest of a hillside and was understood originally as the "Hill o' Beith" (hill of the birches) after its Court Hill. According to the Office for National Statistics, based upon the 2011 Census quotes, 91.2 per cent of the 6,200 inhabitants of Beith were birthed in Scotland, with 6.9 per cent born in the United Kingdom, 0.8 per cent from other nations in the European Union and also 1.2 per cent categorized as various other country. The 2011 Scotland census reported 99.2 (6,156) per cent of people from Beith being White, 0.4 per cent are Oriental, adhered to by mixed/multiple descent being 0.3 percent and also 0.1 percent reported "Various other" origins.