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Some 4,545 people live in this town, in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Council tax at Band D comes to £1,686.
Homes are affordable: the median home sold for £260,000, 5 years of area income. Health is a strength: life expectancy 83.9 for men, 84.9 for women. Its weakest subject is walkability (C−) — on the way to work, 9% walk, cycle or take a bus or train. It lags on hazard risk as well — 1.5% of homes at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea.
Figures: prices, HM Land Registry, the last three years · life expectancy, ONS · commuting, Census 2022 · flood risk, SEPA. Police Scotland doesn’t publish street-level crime, so Kintore has no Safety Grade and, without it, no overall grade. The other subjects are graded below.
The 2 things Kintore 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 Kintore is from typical. American towns are graded separately.
Police Scotland doesn’t publish street-level crime, so Kintore has no Safety Grade and, without it, no overall grade. The other subjects are graded below.
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Historic Environment Scotland lists 7 buildings inside Kintore’s locality, 1 of them in the top category, and 2 scheduled monuments.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Kintore.
The social rented sector houses 12% of households. Owners make up 79% of households, above Aberdeenshire’s towns (70%) and Scotland’s towns (60%) alike. Kintore is the second most expensive of the 23 towns in Aberdeenshire, at £260,000.
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.
Kintore’s two primaries have 452 pupils between them. One of its 2 schools is below, with the reason it’s listed.
| School | Level | Pupils | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kintore SchoolLargest primary schoolPrimary | Primary | 311 | – |
2.6% of residents described their health as bad or very bad, lower than both Aberdeenshire’s towns (4.5%) and Scotland’s towns (7.2%). Asked at the census, 88% of residents of Kintore said they were in good or very good health.
| Census 2022 | Kintore | Aberdeenshire | Scotland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Good or very good health | 88% | 83% | 78% |
| Bad or very bad health | 2.6% | 4.5% | 7.2% |
| Activities limited (health or disability) | 15% | 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; 28% of workers were mainly at home, and shares here are of those who travelled.
The 2026 claimant rate among 16 to 64s was 1.7%. The car took 85% of commuters, above Aberdeenshire’s towns (77%) and Scotland’s towns (70%) alike. About 6% of its commuters stay in Kintore for work. There are 0.5 jobs in Kintore for each resident in work.
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.
2 scheduled monuments lie in Kintore. For its size, Kintore has 15 listed buildings per 10,000 residents, lower than both Aberdeenshire’s towns (24) and Scotland’s towns (22).
Historic Environment Scotland list, October 2026 · OGL
Half of Kintore is older than 41.9, half younger. 17% of residents are 65 or over, below Aberdeenshire’s towns (21%) and Scotland’s towns (19%) alike. Degrees are held by 36% of adults.
51% women, 49% men
About an even split. Across Scotland, 51% of residents are women.
| Kintore | Aberdeenshire | Scotland | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 22% | 17% | 15% |
| 15–24 | 10% | 9.7% | 12% |
| 25–44 | 24% | 25% | 26% |
| 45–64 | 28% | 27% | 27% |
| 65+ | 17% | 21% | 19% |
| No qualifications | 9.4% | 16% | 17% |
| Apprenticeship | 10% | 10% | 7.5% |
| Highers or similar | 13% | 10% | 11% |
| Degree level | 36% | 29% | 32% |
Scotland’s Census 2022 · Aberdeenshire and Scotland: all residents of their towns · OGL
Museums, castles, gardens and days out in and near Kintore. Best known first.
CastleHallforest Castle (ruin)500 m outside town, to the west
CastleThe Bass and Little Bass3.8 km outside town, to the northRuinsRuins · Historic Environment ScotlandKinkell Church2.2 km outside town, to the northMuseumMuseumCarnegie Inverurie Museum4.9 km outside town, to the northPhotos: each place’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
8 notable people were born in Kintore.
Connor Barron: Jim Easton, Public domain · James Park: Annie Elizabeth Kelly CBE (12 April 1877 – 4 October 1946), Public domain · Jimmy Bowie: Harry Sagers / Anefo, CC BY-SA 3.0 nl · John Duthie: Photographer unidentified, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kintore | 4,545 | — | — | A+ | — | A |
| Blackburn | 2,985 | 3 | — | A+ | — | A |
| Kemnay | 3,864 | 3.4 | — | A+ | — | C |
| Inverurie | 15,115 | 3.9 | — | A+ | — | C+ |
| Westhill | 11,778 | 5.7 | — | A+ | — | A |
| Newmachar | 2,527 | 6.5 | — | A+ | — | B |
| Dyce | 6,998 | 6.6 | — | A− | — | C |
| Kingswells | 4,776 | 7.1 | — | 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.
Band D council tax in Kintore 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.
GCSE results beat 69% of towns in England (Department for Education, Attainment 8). Kintore has 2 state schools; places are handled by the local council.
Surface water isn’t included. Check a specific address on GOV.UK’s flood risk service.
Town in Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Kintore is a locality of 4,545 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.
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.