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In Aberdeenshire, Scotland, this town has 4,609 residents.
Prices are modest for what you get: a typical home costs £145,600 and rent runs £869 a month. Health is a weak point (C): life expectancy 79 for men, 82.5 for women. Its other grades sit near the middle: C+ for schools and B for hazard risk. Council tax at Band D comes to £1,686.
Figures: prices, HM Land Registry, the last three years · life expectancy, ONS · flood risk, SEPA. Police Scotland doesn’t publish street-level crime, so Turriff has no Safety Grade and, without it, no overall grade. Its other subjects are graded below.
Each subject compared with the 2,160 UK towns with an overall grade (schools within Scotland), ordered by how far Turriff is from typical. American towns are graded separately.
Police Scotland doesn’t publish street-level crime, so Turriff has no Safety Grade and, without it, no overall grade. Its other subjects are graded below.
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The 3 things Turriff does most differently from other towns.
Historic Environment Scotland lists 22 buildings inside Turriff’s locality, 1 of them in the top category.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Turriff.
14% are under 15, below both Aberdeenshire’s towns (17%) and Scotland’s towns (15%). Young adults of 15 to 24 account for a tenth of the town. The median resident of Turriff is 48.3 years old. Among adults, 19% have a degree.
52% women, 48% men
About 92 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.
| Turriff | Aberdeenshire | Scotland | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 14% | 17% | 15% |
| 15–24 | 10% | 9.7% | 12% |
| 25–44 | 21% | 25% | 26% |
| 45–64 | 28% | 27% | 27% |
| 65+ | 26% | 21% | 19% |
| No qualifications | 23% | 16% | 17% |
| Apprenticeship | 10% | 10% | 7.5% |
| Highers or similar | 8.6% | 10% | 11% |
| Degree level | 19% | 29% | 32% |
Scotland’s Census 2022 · Aberdeenshire and Scotland: all residents of their towns · OGL
Some 985 pupils attend Turriff’s one primary and one secondary. Below are its two schools.
| School | Level | Pupils | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turriff Primary SchoolLargest primary schoolPrimary | Primary | 387 | – |
| Turriff AcademyLargest secondary schoolSecondary | Secondary | 598 | C+ |
Renting privately is how 10% of households live. Behind the median of £145,600: 216 sales in Turriff’s data zones, 2023 to 2025. Home ownership stands at 69% of 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.
Scotland’s Census was taken on 20 March 2022, a year after England and Wales’s lockdown census; 21% of workers were mainly at home, and shares here are of those who travelled.
47% of commuters travelled under 5 km to work. Working mainly from home: 21% of workers, lower than both Aberdeenshire’s towns (26%) and Scotland’s towns (31%). Driving is how 72% of commuters got to work at the census.
Scotland’s Census 2022 (NRS), method of travel and distance to work · DWP claimant count · OGL
Men in Turriff can expect to live to 79, women to 82.5 (2020–24). 23% of residents have a disability, about level with Scotland’s towns (24%) and above Aberdeenshire’s towns (20%).
| Census 2022 | Turriff | Aberdeenshire | Scotland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Good or very good health | 79% | 83% | 78% |
| Bad or very bad health | 5.6% | 4.5% | 7.2% |
| Activities limited (health or disability) | 23% | 20% | 24% |
Scotland’s Census 2022, general health and disability · Public Health Scotland life expectancy by intermediate zone, 2020–24 · OGL · Young towns look healthier on these answers, which aren’t adjusted for age; the Health Grade uses measures that are, such as life expectancy and early deaths.
The heritage lists give each building’s grade but not its age, so we don’t say which is oldest.
At the top of the list, 1 are Category A and 8 Category B. Turriff has 48 listed buildings for every 10,000 residents, above both Aberdeenshire’s towns (18) and Scotland’s towns (22).
Historic Environment Scotland list, October 2026 · OGL
11 notable people were born in Turriff.
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Town in Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Turriff is a locality of 4,609 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
The nearest towns and villages, from National Records of Scotland’s 2022 localities. See them on the map →
Homes cost less than in most UK towns: the median sale over three years was £145,600, 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 Turriff 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.
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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