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Population 6,998: a town in the Aberdeen City council area, Scotland.
Buying a home costs less than in most towns (A−): homes sell for a median £166,500, about 3.9 times local household income. Health is a weak point: men here can expect to live to 78.3, women to 81.8. Elsewhere it is close to typical: B− for schools and C+ for hazard risk. A Band D home pays £1,748 in council tax.
Figures: prices, HM Land Registry, the last three years · life expectancy, ONS · flood risk, SEPA. Police Scotland doesn’t publish street-level crime, so Dyce has no Safety Grade and, without it, no overall grade. The other subjects are graded below.
The 2 things Dyce does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compared with the 2,160 UK towns with an overall grade (schools within Scotland), ordered by how far Dyce is from typical. American towns are graded separately.
Police Scotland doesn’t publish street-level crime, so Dyce has no Safety Grade and, without it, no overall grade. The other subjects are graded below.
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Historic Environment Scotland lists 2 buildings inside Dyce’s locality, 1 of them in the second category.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Dyce.
Owners make up 67% of households. Private rents average £869 a month across the Aberdeen and Shire council area. The median, £166,500, rests on 322 sales in Dyce’s data zones from 2023 to 2025.
Registers of Scotland data-zone sale prices · Scottish Government council tax · Scotland’s Census 2022 tenure · OGL · The Scottish median is our estimate from data-zone sales, brought to early-2025 prices.
Dyce’s one primary and one secondary have 1,040 pupils between them. Its two schools are listed below.
| School | Level | Pupils | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dyce SchoolLargest primary schoolPrimary | Primary | 355 | – |
| Dyce AcademyLargest secondary schoolSecondary | Secondary | 685 | B− |
82% of Dyce’s residents described their health as good or very good at the census, close to Aberdeen City council area’s towns (82%) and above Scotland’s towns (78%). Women here live to 81.8 on average and men to 78.3 (2020–24). Disability touches just over a fifth of the town’s population.
| Census 2022 | Dyce | Aberdeen City council area | Scotland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Good or very good health | 82% | 82% | 78% |
| Bad or very bad health | 4.3% | 5.2% | 7.2% |
| Activities limited (health or disability) | 21% | 20% | 24% |
Scotland’s Census 2022, general health and disability · Public Health Scotland life expectancy by intermediate zone, 2020–24 · OGL · Census health answers are raw, so younger towns score better on them; for the Health Grade we use age-adjusted figures like life expectancy and early deaths.
Scotland’s Census was taken on 20 March 2022, a year after England and Wales’s lockdown census; 26% of workers were mainly at home, and shares here are of those who travelled.
Short trips to work, under 5 km: 36%, below both Aberdeen City council area’s towns (58%) and Scotland’s towns (44%). Driving is how 77% of commuters got to work at the census. About nearly a fifth of its commuters stay in Dyce for work. Just over a quarter of workers did their job mainly from home at the census.
Scotland’s Census 2022 (NRS), method of travel and distance to work · DWP claimant count · OGL
The heritage lists give each building’s grade but not its age, so we don’t say which is oldest.
Historic Environment Scotland’s list names 2 listed buildings in Dyce: 1 Category B. For its size, Dyce has the fewest listed buildings of the towns in the Aberdeen City council area.
Historic Environment Scotland list, October 2026 · OGL
Graduates make up 28% of adults. Just over a fifth of residents are 65 or over, higher than both Aberdeen City council area’s towns (17%) and Scotland’s towns (19%). The middle age in Dyce is 41.9.
51% women, 49% men
About 95 men for every 100 women. Across Scotland, 51% of residents are women.
| Dyce | Aberdeen City council area | Scotland | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 17% | 15% | 15% |
| 15–24 | 9.7% | 14% | 12% |
| 25–44 | 28% | 29% | 26% |
| 45–64 | 24% | 24% | 27% |
| 65+ | 22% | 17% | 19% |
| No qualifications | 15% | 13% | 17% |
| Apprenticeship | 9.9% | 6.9% | 7.5% |
| Highers or similar | 9.9% | 11% | 11% |
| Degree level | 28% | 38% | 32% |
Scotland’s Census 2022 · Aberdeen City council area and Scotland: all residents of their towns · OGL
Museums, castles, gardens and days out in and near Dyce. Best known first.
MuseumAberdeen Treasure Hub2.6 km outside town, to the southeastZooZooWynford Farm Park3.4 km outside town, to the southwestMuseumMuseumZoology Museum5 km outside town, to the southeastZooZooPets Corner4.8 km outside town, to the southPhotos: each place’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
The nearest towns and villages, from National Records of Scotland’s 2022 localities. See them on the map →
| Town | People | Miles | Overall | Cost | Safety | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dyce | 6,998 | — | — | A− | — | C |
| Kingswells | 4,776 | 3.4 | — | C | — | B+ |
| Blackburn | 2,985 | 3.9 | — | A+ | — | A |
| Aberdeen | 192,968 | 4.1 | — | A− | — | C− |
| Newmachar | 2,527 | 4.4 | — | A+ | — | B |
| Westhill | 11,778 | 5.3 | — | A+ | — | A |
| Kintore | 4,545 | 6.6 | — | A+ | — | A |
| Milltimber | 3,049 | 6.8 | — | C− | — | B+ |
No Scottish town has a Safety Grade or an overall grade yet: Police Scotland doesn’t publish street-level crime. People: Census 2022. Miles: centre to centre.
Homes cost less than in most UK towns: the median sale over three years was £166,500, against £277,000 in the typical town in England and Wales. On cost of living it is the 239th most affordable of 296 Scottish towns.
Band D council tax in Dyce is £1,748 for 2026–27, less than in 87% of UK towns (council, county, police and fire). Your own bill depends on your home’s band; check it on GOV.UK.
Surface water isn’t included. Check a specific address on GOV.UK’s flood risk service.
Town in Aberdeen City, Scotland
Dyce is a locality of 6,998 people, in the Aberdeen City council area. TownRatings uses National Records of Scotland’s 2022 localities as Scotland’s towns: the physical town, as people mean the word, rather than a council area, so its figures cover the town itself. Localities split the big settlements into their towns, as ONS’s 2022 boundaries split conurbations in England and Wales.
Built from NRS geography and Census 2022
Sources: Scotland’s Census 2022 (National Records of Scotland), output areas summed to the NRS 2022 locality · Registers of Scotland house price statistics, medians and quartiles of residential sales by 2022 data zone, 2004 to 2025 (the 2023 to 2025 headline brought to early-2025 prices with each council’s medians) · Scottish Government, Council Tax by band 2026-27; Scottish Water charges 2026-27 · Scottish Government, Recorded Crime in Scotland (crimes, offences and clear-up rates by council area, 2016-17 to 2025-26); Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation 2020v2 crime domain and SIMD crime indicators (2014/15, 2017/18), 2011 data zones with Census 2022 residents · ONS gross disposable household income by council (2022), scaled to household income on England and Wales’s councils, with Scotland’s Census 2022 households · DWP / ONS Claimant Count via Nomis (2022 data zones, January to August 2026), over residents aged 16 to 64 at Scotland’s Census 2022; council series since 2015 · Scottish Government school contact list (31 July 2026) and school summary statistics (pupil census, September 2025); School Information Dashboard leavers’ attainment by school, 2022-23 to 2024-25 (data.gov.scot) · TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranked against UK towns only. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026 (ONS boundaries). Northern Ireland: Source: NISRA; contains Land & Property Services data and Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland information, © Crown copyright, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Scotland: contains National Records of Scotland data, Registers of Scotland data and SEPA data, © Crown copyright / © SEPA 2025, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.