Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
A Band D home pays £1,686 in council tax. A town of 4,628 in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
Housing is within reach: homes sell for a median £135,800, about 2.6 times local household income. Health is its weak spot: life expectancy is 76.6 for men and 81.7 for women. Schools lag (C): school leavers’ results beat 35% of Scottish towns. 71 listed buildings, 3 of them in the top category.
Figures: prices, HM Land Registry, the last three years · life expectancy, ONS. Huntly has no Safety Grade, because Police Scotland doesn’t publish street-level crime, and so no overall grade. Its other subjects still get grades, below.
The 3 things Huntly 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 Huntly is from typical. American towns are graded separately.
Huntly has no Safety Grade, because Police Scotland doesn’t publish street-level crime, and so no overall grade. Its other subjects still get grades, below.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Historic Environment Scotland lists 71 buildings inside Huntly’s locality, 3 of them in the top category, and 2 scheduled monuments.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Huntly.
32% of households live in social housing. Owners make up 55% of households, below Aberdeenshire’s towns (70%) and Scotland’s towns (60%) alike. Private renters make up one in ten households.
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.
Some 1,008 pupils attend Huntly’s one primary and one secondary. Its two schools are below.
| School | Level | Pupils | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gordon Primary SchoolLargest primary schoolPrimary | Primary | 337 | – |
| The Gordon SchoolsLargest secondary schoolSecondary | Secondary | 671 | C+ |
Scotland’s Census was taken on 20 March 2022, a year after England and Wales’s lockdown census; 22% of workers were mainly at home, and shares here are of those who travelled.
Jobs per working resident: 1.1. 62% of commuters drove, below Aberdeenshire’s towns (77%) and Scotland’s towns (70%) alike. For 54% of commuters, work was under 5 km away.
Scotland’s Census 2022 (NRS), method of travel and distance to work · DWP claimant count · OGL
77% of people in Huntly rate their own health good or very good. At the census, 5.9% of residents said their health was bad or very bad, above Aberdeenshire’s towns (4.5%) but below Scotland’s towns (7.2%). Women here live to 81.7 on average and men to 76.6 (2020–24).
| Census 2022 | Huntly | Aberdeenshire | Scotland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Good or very good health | 77% | 83% | 78% |
| Bad or very bad health | 5.9% | 4.5% | 7.2% |
| Activities limited (health or disability) | 27% | 20% | 24% |
Scotland’s Census 2022, general health and disability · Public Health Scotland life expectancy by intermediate zone, 2020–24 · OGL · The census answers take no account of age, so a young town looks healthier; the Health Grade relies on age-adjusted measures, life expectancy and early deaths among them.
The heritage lists give each building’s grade but not its age, so we don’t say which is oldest.
For its size, Huntly has the second most listed buildings of the towns in Aberdeenshire. The town’s listed buildings include Gordon's Schools Original Building Only., Category A. Also worth knowing: the top grade, Category A, goes to 3 of them.
Historic Environment Scotland list, October 2026 · OGL
The middle age in Huntly is 48.5. 16% of residents are children under 15. People aged 15 to 24 make up a tenth of the town, higher than Aberdeenshire’s towns (9.7%) yet lower than Scotland’s towns (12%). Among adults, 21% have a degree.
53% women, 47% men
About 89 men for every 100 women. Across Scotland, 51% of residents are women. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
| Huntly | Aberdeenshire | Scotland | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 16% | 17% | 15% |
| 15–24 | 10% | 9.7% | 12% |
| 25–44 | 20% | 25% | 26% |
| 45–64 | 26% | 27% | 27% |
| 65+ | 28% | 21% | 19% |
| No qualifications | 24% | 16% | 17% |
| Apprenticeship | 10% | 10% | 7.5% |
| Highers or similar | 9.9% | 10% | 11% |
| Degree level | 21% | 29% | 32% |
Scotland’s Census 2022 · Aberdeenshire and Scotland: all residents of their towns · OGL
71 listed buildings in Huntly, 3 of them in the top category.
Huntly Castle: Photo: Rosser1954 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Scott's Hospital, Gladstone Road: Photo: Stanley Howe · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Binn Toll House Huntly.: Photo: Milestone Society · CC BY-SA 2.0 · 18, The Square, Huntly Hotel.: Photo: Bill Harrison · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Geograph
13 notable people were born in Huntly.
Andrew Young: Sandro Halank, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Iona Fyfe: Halfabeet, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Kirstie Gordon: Harrias, CC BY-SA 4.0 · William Hay, 4th Earl of Erroll: Sodacan, CC BY-SA 4.0
The nearest towns and villages, from National Records of Scotland’s 2022 localities. See them on the map →
That is 6.3 times the typical town in England and Wales for its size. Its Category A buildings include Gordon's Schools Original Building Only.. It also has 2 scheduled monuments.
Homes cost less than in most UK towns: the median sale over three years was £135,800, against £277,000 in the typical town in England and Wales. On cost of living it is the 10th most affordable of 296 Scottish towns.
Band D council tax in Huntly is £1,686 for 2026–27, less than in 91% 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 Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Huntly is a locality of 4,628 people, in the Aberdeenshire 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.
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