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A Band D home pays £1,686 in council tax. A town in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, home to 15,115 people.
Inverurie’s strongest is cost of living: a typical home costs £193,900 and rent runs £869 a month. It also does well on schools: school leavers’ results beat 69% of Scottish towns. Hazard risk is its weak spot — 2.1% of homes face a high or medium risk of river or sea flooding. The rest of its grades are middling: C+ for health and B for walkability.
Figures: prices, HM Land Registry, the last three years · flood risk, SEPA · life expectancy, ONS · commuting, Census 2022. Inverurie has no Safety Grade, because Police Scotland doesn’t publish street-level crime, and so no overall grade. Every other subject still has a grade below.
The 2 things Inverurie 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 Inverurie is from typical. American towns are graded separately.
Inverurie has no Safety Grade, because Police Scotland doesn’t publish street-level crime, and so no overall grade. Every other subject still has a grade below.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Historic Environment Scotland lists 26 buildings inside Inverurie’s locality, 21 of them in the second category, and 3 scheduled monuments.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Inverurie.
Private renters make up one in ten households, between Aberdeenshire’s towns (8%) and Scotland’s towns (13%). The median, £193,900, rests on 789 sales in Inverurie’s data zones from 2023 to 2025. 68% of households own their home.
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.
Of its 6 schools, two are shown below, each with the reason. Between them, four primaries and one secondary teach 2,623 pupils in Inverurie.
| School | Level | Pupils | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Uryside SchoolLargest primary schoolPrimary | Primary | 476 | – |
| Inverurie AcademyLargest secondary schoolSecondary | Secondary | 1,315 | B |
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.
Nearly four in five commuters took the car to work at the census. Working mainly from home: just over a quarter of workers, close to Aberdeenshire’s towns (26%) and below Scotland’s towns (31%). For 35% of commuters, work was under 5 km away. Work in town: 32% of resident commuters.
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.
Category B covers 21 of them. The national list protects 3 ancient monuments in Inverurie. The register of parks and gardens lists one in the town.
Historic Environment Scotland list, October 2026 · OGL
At the census, 84% of people in Inverurie called their health good or very good, above Aberdeenshire’s towns (83%) and Scotland’s towns (78%) alike. Disability touches a fifth of the town’s population. Life expectancy here is 83.4 for women and 79.7 for men (2020–24).
| Census 2022 | Inverurie | Aberdeenshire | Scotland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Good or very good health | 84% | 83% | 78% |
| Bad or very bad health | 4% | 4.5% | 7.2% |
| Activities limited (health or disability) | 20% | 20% | 24% |
Scotland’s Census 2022, general health and disability · Public Health Scotland life expectancy by intermediate zone, 2020–24 · OGL · Self-reported health favours young towns, since these answers ignore age; the Health Grade leans on age-adjusted measures such as life expectancy and early deaths.
18% of residents are children under 15. The 15-to-24 age group: 9.4%, close to Aberdeenshire’s towns (9.7%) and below Scotland’s towns (12%). Residents of Inverurie have a median age of 42.1.
52% women, 48% men
About 93 men for every 100 women. Across Scotland, 51% of residents are women.
| Inverurie | Aberdeenshire | Scotland | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 18% | 17% | 15% |
| 15–24 | 9.4% | 9.7% | 12% |
| 25–44 | 27% | 25% | 26% |
| 45–64 | 26% | 27% | 27% |
| 65+ | 20% | 21% | 19% |
| No qualifications | 14% | 16% | 17% |
| Apprenticeship | 11% | 10% | 7.5% |
| Highers or similar | 11% | 10% | 11% |
| Degree level | 30% | 29% | 32% |
Scotland’s Census 2022 · Aberdeenshire and Scotland: all residents of their towns · OGL
Museums, castles, gardens and days out in and near Inverurie. Best known first.
CastleCastle of Balquhain2.2 km outside town, to the northwest
CastleThe Bass and Little Bass100 m outside town, to the southeast
CastleHallforest Castle (ruin)2.6 km outside town, to the south
CastleBarra Castle2.7 km outside town, to the northeastMuseumMuseumCarnegie Inverurie Museumin townPhotos: each place’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
26 listed buildings in Inverurie.
Inverurie Town Hall, Market Place: Photo: John Aldersey-Williams · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Kintore Arms Hotel, 83 High Street: Photo: Bill Harrison · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Geograph · Parish Church of St. Andrew, High Street, (Excluding Halls): Photo: Bill Harrison · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Geograph · Administration Block, Inverurie Hospital, St James's Place and Upperboat Road, Inverurie: Photo: Bill Harrison · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Geograph
11 notable people were born in Inverurie.
Darren Mackie: Jonesy702, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Sir Walter Farquhar, 1st Baronet: Henry Raeburn, Public domain
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inverurie | 15,115 | — | — | A+ | — | C+ |
| Kintore | 4,545 | 3.9 | — | A+ | — | A |
| Kemnay | 3,864 | 4.1 | — | A+ | — | C |
| Oldmeldrum | 3,181 | 4.2 | — | A+ | — | C+ |
| Blackburn | 2,985 | 6.5 | — | A+ | — | A |
| Newmachar | 2,527 | 7.4 | — | A+ | — | B |
| Insch | 2,685 | 9.4 | — | A+ | — | C+ |
| Dyce | 6,998 | 9.4 | — | A− | — | C |
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.
Band D council tax in Inverurie 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.
Homes cost less than in most UK towns: the median sale over three years was £193,900, against £277,000 in the typical town in England and Wales. On cost of living it is the 32nd most affordable of 296 Scottish towns.
Town in Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Inverurie is a locality of 15,115 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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