Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
A town of 2,853 in Clackmannanshire, Scotland.
Police Scotland doesn’t publish street-level crime, so Dollar has no Safety Grade and, without it, no overall grade. Its other subjects are graded below. Its strongest subject is health (A): life expectancy 83.2 for men, 86.6 for women. Its weakest is schools (C−): school leavers’ results beat 23% of Scottish towns. The median home sold for £329,900 in the last three years, 7.5 times what households in the Clackmannanshire council area earn in a year.
The 3 things Dollar 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 Dollar is from typical. American towns are graded separately.
Police Scotland doesn’t publish street-level crime, so Dollar has no Safety Grade and, without it, no overall grade. Its other subjects are graded below.
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Historic Environment Scotland lists 115 buildings inside Dollar’s locality, 1 of them in the top category.
The archive holds 3 old photos and postcards going back to 1890.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Dollar.
That puts Dollar below both Clackmannanshire’s towns (26%) and Scotland’s towns (24%). Of the 8 towns in Clackmannanshire, Dollar has the smallest share in bad or very bad health: 4.1%. These answers aren’t adjusted for age, so young towns look healthier; the Health Grade uses age-adjusted measures, including life expectancy and early deaths.
| Census 2022 | Dollar | Clackmannanshire | Scotland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Good or very good health | 85% | 77% | 78% |
| Bad or very bad health | 4.1% | 7.7% | 7.2% |
| Activities limited (health or disability) | 18% | 26% | 24% |
Scotland’s Census 2022, general health and disability · Public Health Scotland life expectancy by intermediate zone, 2020–24 · OGL
Its one school is below. The grade uses the secondaries its children go to; Scotland publishes no primary results by school.
| School | Level | Pupils | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Strathdevon Primary SchoolLargest primary schoolPrimary | Primary | 165 | – |
On this, Dollar is above both Clackmannanshire’s towns (£148K) and Scotland’s towns (£174K). No town in Clackmannanshire costs more to buy into than Dollar, at £329,900, the highest of 8. 82% of households own their home.
Registers of Scotland data-zone sale prices · Scottish Government council tax · Scotland’s Census 2022 tenure · OGL
Scotland’s Census was taken on 20 March 2022, a year after England and Wales’s lockdown census; 39% of workers were mainly at home, and shares here are of those who travelled.
In the comparison, Dollar comes below both Clackmannanshire’s towns (3.2%) and Scotland’s towns (2.8%). 22% of commuters travelled under 5 km to 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.
For Dollar, that is above both Clackmannanshire’s towns (19) and Scotland’s towns (22). Dollar’s listed buildings include Dollar Academy, Category A. Dollar has 115 listed buildings on Historic Environment Scotland’s list: 1 Category A, 35 Category B.
Historic Environment Scotland list, October 2026 · OGL
Dollar sits above both Clackmannanshire’s towns (26%) and Scotland’s towns (32%) on this measure. 27% of residents are 65 or over. Dollar has a median age of 50.8.
52% women, 48% men
About 91 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.
| Dollar | Clackmannanshire | Scotland | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 15% | 16% | 15% |
| 15–24 | 11% | 10% | 12% |
| 25–44 | 15% | 24% | 26% |
| 45–64 | 31% | 29% | 27% |
| 65+ | 27% | 21% | 19% |
| No qualifications | 7.8% | 19% | 17% |
| Apprenticeship | 4.3% | 8.9% | 7.5% |
| Highers or similar | 9.3% | 10% | 11% |
| Degree level | 54% | 26% | 32% |
Scotland’s Census 2022 · Clackmannanshire and Scotland: all residents of their towns · OGL
Museums, castles, gardens and days out in and near Dollar. Best known first.
MuseumDollar Museumin town
Castle · Historic Environment ScotlandCastle Campbell400 m outside town, to the north
GardenCowden Japanese-Style Garden1.5 km outside town, to the northeastAttractionAttraction · National Trust for ScotlandDollar Glen400 m outside town, to the northPhotos: each place’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
115 listed buildings in Dollar, 1 of them in the top category.
Dollar Academy: Photo: Arisata89 · CC BY-SA 3.0 · North Bridge over Dollar Burn, High Street - Back Road: Photo: Leslie Barrie · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Castle Campbell Hotel: Photo: Jonathan Thacker · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Church Hall: Photo: Leslie Barrie · CC BY-SA 2.0
4 notable people were born in Dollar.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dollar | 2,853 | — | — | C− | — | A |
| Tillicoultry | 4,482 | 2.8 | — | A− | — | D |
| Sauchie | 6,357 | 4.8 | — | A− | — | D− |
| Clackmannan | 3,282 | 4.9 | — | A− | — | D− |
| Alva | 4,820 | 5.1 | — | A− | — | D |
| Alloa | 14,689 | 5.9 | — | A− | — | D |
| Tullibody | 8,515 | 6.7 | — | A− | — | D− |
| Kincardine | 2,887 | 6.7 | — | A | — | D |
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.
That is 16.5 times the typical town in England and Wales for its size. Its Category A building is Dollar Academy.
Band D council tax in Dollar is £1,684 for 2026–27, less than in 92% of UK towns (council, county, police and fire). Your own bill depends on your home’s band; check it on GOV.UK.
One state school is inside the town; places are handled by the local council.
Town in Clackmannanshire, Scotland
Dollar is a locality of 2,853 people, in the Clackmannanshire 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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