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Band D council tax is £1,686. The town, home to 11,778 people, lies in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
Prices are modest for what you get: the median home sold for £233,000, 4.5 years of area income. Schools are a strength too — school leavers’ results beat 96% of Scottish towns. Walkability is its weak spot: 11% of commuters walk, cycle or take public transport. Hazard risk is lower than in most UK towns (A).
Figures: prices, HM Land Registry, the last three years · commuting, Census 2022 · flood risk, SEPA. Without street-level crime figures from Police Scotland, Westhill has no Safety Grade, and so no overall grade. Every other subject still has a grade below.
The 3 things Westhill 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 Westhill is from typical. American towns are graded separately.
Without street-level crime figures from Police Scotland, Westhill has no Safety Grade, and so no overall grade. Every other subject still has a grade below.
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Historic Environment Scotland lists 8 buildings inside Westhill’s locality, 7 of them in the second category.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Westhill.
Social housing holds 7% of households, lower than both Aberdeenshire’s towns (20%) and Scotland’s towns (24%). Private rents average £869 a month across the Aberdeen and Shire council area. Behind the median of £233,000: 538 sales in Westhill’s data zones, 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.
Westhill Academy’s results beat 93% of schools in Scotland like it. Two of its 4 schools are below, each with the reason it’s listed. Some 1,881 pupils attend the town’s three primaries and one secondary.
| School | Level | Pupils | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Crombie SchoolLargest primary schoolPrimary | Primary | 335 | – |
| Westhill AcademyLargest secondary schoolSecondary | Secondary | 909 | A |
Poor health, by residents’ own account, affects 2.7% of the town. At the census, 15% of people here had a disability, below Aberdeenshire’s towns (20%) and Scotland’s towns (24%) alike. Men in Westhill can expect to live to 83.2, women to 84 (2020–24).
| Census 2022 | Westhill | Aberdeenshire | Scotland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Good or very good health | 88% | 83% | 78% |
| Bad or very bad health | 2.7% | 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 · 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.
Scotland’s Census was taken on 20 March 2022, a year after England and Wales’s lockdown census; 29% of workers were mainly at home, and shares here are of those who travelled.
Short trips to work, under 5 km: 26%, lower than both Aberdeenshire’s towns (37%) and Scotland’s towns (44%). 1.3% of 16 to 64s claimed unemployment benefits in 2026. About just over a fifth of its commuters stay in Westhill for work. For every resident in work, Westhill has 1.9 jobs.
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.
Listed buildings per head: 7 for every 10,000 residents of Westhill.
Historic Environment Scotland list, October 2026 · OGL
9.5% of residents are 15 to 24, about level with Aberdeenshire’s towns (9.7%) and below Scotland’s towns (12%). Under-15s account for 18% of the population. At 44.3, the median resident of Westhill sits in the middle of the age range.
51% women, 49% men
About 95 men for every 100 women. Across Scotland, 51% of residents are women.
| Westhill | Aberdeenshire | Scotland | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 18% | 17% | 15% |
| 15–24 | 9.5% | 9.7% | 12% |
| 25–44 | 23% | 25% | 26% |
| 45–64 | 29% | 27% | 27% |
| 65+ | 20% | 21% | 19% |
| No qualifications | 7.6% | 16% | 17% |
| Apprenticeship | 8.9% | 10% | 7.5% |
| Highers or similar | 11% | 10% | 11% |
| Degree level | 43% | 29% | 32% |
Scotland’s Census 2022 · Aberdeenshire and Scotland: all residents of their towns · OGL
8 listed buildings in Westhill.
Kirkton House (Originally Kirkville): Photo: Bill Harrison · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Geograph · Kirkton House, Dovecot: Photo: Stanley Howe · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Geograph
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Westhill | 11,778 | — | — | A+ | — | A |
| Kingswells | 4,776 | 2.8 | — | C | — | B+ |
| Blackburn | 2,985 | 3.6 | — | A+ | — | A |
| Peterculter | 4,359 | 4 | — | A− | — | C+ |
| Milltimber | 3,049 | 4.1 | — | C− | — | B+ |
| Dyce | 6,998 | 5.3 | — | A− | — | C |
| Kintore | 4,545 | 5.7 | — | A+ | — | A |
| Aberdeen | 192,968 | 6.3 | — | 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.
GCSE results beat 96% of towns in England (Department for Education, Attainment 8).
Band D council tax in Westhill 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
Westhill is a locality of 11,778 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.
