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Band D council tax is £1,684. 4,482 people live in this town in Clackmannanshire, Scotland.
Prices are modest for what you get: a typical home costs £147,700 and rent runs £930 a month. Its lowest grade is for health — life expectancy is 75.7 for men and 81 for women. It also trails on schools (C−): school leavers’ results beat 23% of Scottish towns. Hazards are a real consideration: 14.6% of homes face a high or medium risk of river or sea flooding.
Figures: prices, HM Land Registry, the last three years · life expectancy, ONS · flood risk, SEPA. Police Scotland publishes no street-level crime, which leaves Tillicoultry without a Safety Grade or an overall grade. Its other subjects still get grades, below.
The 3 things Tillicoultry 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 Tillicoultry is from typical. American towns are graded separately.
Police Scotland publishes no street-level crime, which leaves Tillicoultry without a Safety Grade or an overall grade. Its other subjects still get grades, below.
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Historic Environment Scotland lists 13 buildings inside Tillicoultry’s locality, 10 of them in the second category, and 1 scheduled monument.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Tillicoultry.
At the census, just over three quarters of people in Tillicoultry called their health good or very good, lower than both Clackmannanshire’s towns (77%) and Scotland’s towns (78%). 28% of residents in Tillicoultry live with a disability.
| Census 2022 | Tillicoultry | Clackmannanshire | Scotland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Good or very good health | 76% | 77% | 78% |
| Bad or very bad health | 7.4% | 7.7% | 7.2% |
| Activities limited (health or disability) | 28% | 26% | 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.
Below is its only school. 234 pupils attend Tillicoultry’s one primary school. Its one school is below.
| School | Level | Pupils | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tillicoultry Primary SchoolLargest primary schoolPrimary | Primary | 234 | – |
9% rent privately, close to Clackmannanshire’s towns (9%) and below Scotland’s towns (13%). Behind the median of £147,700: 245 sales in Tillicoultry’s data zones, 2023 to 2025. The owner-occupied share of households is 64%.
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; 26% of workers were mainly at home, and shares here are of those who travelled.
The car took 82% of commuters, close to Clackmannanshire’s towns (82%) and above Scotland’s towns (70%). 3.2% of 16 to 64s claimed unemployment benefits in 2026. About 8% of its commuters stay in Tillicoultry for work. The town counts 0.5 jobs per working resident.
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.
Tillicoultry has 13 listed buildings on Historic Environment Scotland’s list: 10 Category B. It has one scheduled monument. Relative to its size, Tillicoultry keeps 29 listed buildings per 10,000 residents, higher than both Clackmannanshire’s towns (19) and Scotland’s towns (22).
Historic Environment Scotland list, October 2026 · OGL
26% of adults hold a degree, close to Clackmannanshire’s towns (26%) and below Scotland’s towns (32%). Those 65 and older account for 27% of residents. Half of Tillicoultry is older than 51, half younger. People aged 15 to 24 are nearly a tenth of the population.
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Across Scotland, 51% of residents are women.
| Tillicoultry | Clackmannanshire | Scotland | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 12% | 16% | 15% |
| 15–24 | 9.4% | 10% | 12% |
| 25–44 | 21% | 24% | 26% |
| 45–64 | 31% | 29% | 27% |
| 65+ | 27% | 21% | 19% |
| No qualifications | 20% | 19% | 17% |
| Apprenticeship | 11% | 8.9% | 7.5% |
| Highers or similar | 10% | 10% | 11% |
| Degree level | 26% | 26% | 32% |
Scotland’s Census 2022 · Clackmannanshire and Scotland: all residents of their towns · OGL
Museums, castles, gardens and days out in and near Tillicoultry. Best known first.
Castle · Historic Environment ScotlandCastle Campbell3.6 km outside town, to the northeast
Castle · National Trust for ScotlandAlloa Tower4.7 km outside town, to the southwest
CastleClackmannan Tower4.4 km outside town, to the south
CastleSauchie Tower1.8 km outside town, to the southwest
MuseumDollar Museum3.6 km outside town, to the eastAttractionAttraction · National Trust for ScotlandDollar Glen3.7 km outside town, to the northeastPhotos: each place’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
13 listed buildings in Tillicoultry.
Tower of Former Popular Institute Ochil Street: Photo: Paul McIlroy · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Upper Mill Street Clock Mill: Photo: Dan · CC BY-SA 2.0
10 notable people were born in Tillicoultry.
Alec Garden Fraser: Sam Britten, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tillicoultry | 4,482 | — | — | A− | — | D |
| Sauchie | 6,357 | 2.3 | — | A− | — | D− |
| Alva | 4,820 | 2.4 | — | A− | — | D |
| Dollar | 2,853 | 2.8 | — | C− | — | A |
| Clackmannan | 3,282 | 3.2 | — | A− | — | D− |
| Alloa | 14,689 | 3.4 | — | A− | — | D |
| Tullibody | 8,515 | 3.9 | — | A− | — | D− |
| Menstrie | 2,834 | 4.4 | — | B | — | 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.
Surface water isn’t included. Check a specific address on GOV.UK’s flood risk service.
Homes cost less than in most UK towns: the median sale over three years was £147,700, against £277,000 in the typical town in England and Wales. On cost of living it is the 215th most affordable of 296 Scottish towns.
Band D council tax in Tillicoultry 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 77% of towns in England (Department for Education, Attainment 8). One state school is inside the town; places are handled by the local council.
Town in Clackmannanshire, Scotland
Tillicoultry is a locality of 4,482 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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