Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
A town of 2,834 in Clackmannanshire, Scotland.
Police Scotland doesn’t publish street-level crime, so Menstrie has no Safety Grade and, without it, no overall grade. Its other subjects are graded below. Its strongest subject is cost of living (B): the 268th most affordable of 296 Scottish towns: median sale £217,600, 5 years of area income; rent £930 a month. Its weakest is schools (C−): school leavers’ results beat 22% of Scottish towns.
The 3 things Menstrie 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 Menstrie is from typical. American towns are graded separately.
Police Scotland doesn’t publish street-level crime, so Menstrie has no Safety Grade and, without it, no overall grade. Its other subjects are graded below.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Historic Environment Scotland lists 3 buildings inside Menstrie’s locality, 1 of them in the top category.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Menstrie.
Below is its only school. Its one primary school teaches 237 pupils.
| School | Level | Pupils | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Menstrie Primary SchoolLargest primary schoolPrimary | Primary | 237 | – |
Menstrie’s share in bad or very bad health, 6.1%, is the second lowest of the 8 towns in Clackmannanshire. 81% of people in Menstrie rate their own health good or very good. Life expectancy here is 81.3 for women and 80.3 for men (2020–24).
| Census 2022 | Menstrie | Clackmannanshire | Scotland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Good or very good health | 81% | 77% | 78% |
| Bad or very bad health | 6.1% | 7.7% | 7.2% |
| Activities limited (health or disability) | 22% | 26% | 24% |
Scotland’s Census 2022, general health and disability · Public Health Scotland life expectancy by intermediate zone, 2020–24 · OGL · 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.
Scotland’s Census was taken on 20 March 2022, a year after England and Wales’s lockdown census; 31% of workers were mainly at home, and shares here are of those who travelled.
84% of commuters drove, about level with Clackmannanshire’s towns (82%) and above Scotland’s towns (70%). For 21% of commuters, work was under 5 km away. Among 16 to 64s, 1.5% claimed unemployment benefits in 2026.
Scotland’s Census 2022 (NRS), method of travel and distance to work · DWP claimant count · OGL
Private renters make up 8% of households, below Clackmannanshire’s towns (9%) and Scotland’s towns (13%) alike. 12% of households rent from a council or housing body. Menstrie is the second most expensive of the 8 towns in Clackmannanshire, at £217,600.
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.
The heritage lists give each building’s grade but not its age, so we don’t say which is oldest.
Historic Environment Scotland’s list names 3 listed buildings in Menstrie: 1 Category A, 2 Category B. Per 10,000 residents, Menstrie counts 11 listed buildings, below both Clackmannanshire’s towns (21) and Scotland’s towns (22).
Historic Environment Scotland list, October 2026 · OGL
Degrees are held by 35% of adults. Young adults of 15 to 24 are 8% of residents, lower than both Clackmannanshire’s towns (10%) and Scotland’s towns (12%). The 65-and-over age group makes up nearly a quarter of residents. Typical age in Menstrie: 45.5, the median.
53% women, 47% men
About 89 men for every 100 women. Across Scotland, 51% of residents are women.
| Menstrie | Clackmannanshire | Scotland | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 20% | 16% | 15% |
| 15–24 | 8% | 10% | 12% |
| 25–44 | 22% | 24% | 26% |
| 45–64 | 28% | 29% | 27% |
| 65+ | 23% | 21% | 19% |
| No qualifications | 14% | 19% | 17% |
| Apprenticeship | 8.7% | 8.9% | 7.5% |
| Highers or similar | 9.7% | 10% | 11% |
| Degree level | 35% | 26% | 32% |
Scotland’s Census 2022 · Clackmannanshire and Scotland: all residents of their towns · OGL
Museums, castles, gardens and days out in and near Menstrie. Best known first.
Castle · National Trust for ScotlandMenstrie Castlein town
Historic houseBroomhall Castlein town
Castle · National Trust for ScotlandAlloa Tower4.4 km outside town, to the southeast
CastleSauchie Tower3.1 km outside town, to the eastAbbey or prioryAbbey or priory · Historic Environment ScotlandCambuskenneth Abbey4.4 km outside town, to the southwestArt galleryArt galleryUniversity of Stirling Art Collection4 km outside town, to the westPhotos: each place’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
3 listed buildings in Menstrie, 1 of them in the top category.
Menstrie, Elmbank/Menstrie Mill: Photo: Craig Omus · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Ochil Road Bridge over Menstrie Burn, Menstrie: Photo: Clacksnapper · CC BY-SA 3.0
5 notable people were born in Menstrie.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Menstrie | 2,834 | — | — | B | — | C |
| Tullibody | 8,515 | 1.3 | — | A− | — | D− |
| Alva | 4,820 | 2 | — | A− | — | D |
| Alloa | 14,689 | 3.1 | — | A− | — | D |
| Fallin | 2,769 | 3.2 | — | A+ | — | D− |
| Sauchie | 6,357 | 3.2 | — | A− | — | D− |
| Bridge of Allan | 4,744 | 3.5 | — | A− | — | A− |
| Stirling | 38,590 | 3.9 | — | 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.
Band D council tax in Menstrie 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.
GCSE results trail 78% of towns in England (Department for Education, Attainment 8). One state school is inside the town; places are handled by the local council.
Homes cost less than in most UK towns: the median sale over three years was £217,600, against £277,000 in the typical town in England and Wales. On cost of living it is the 268th most affordable of 296 Scottish towns.
Town in Clackmannanshire, Scotland
Menstrie is a locality of 2,834 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.
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.
