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Council tax at Band D comes to £1,684. A town of 8,515 in Clackmannanshire, Scotland.
Tullibody’s best grade is for cost of living: a typical home costs £167,600 and rent runs £930 a month. Residents’ health trails most towns: men here can expect to live to 75.4, women to 80.2. It lags on schools as well: school leavers’ results beat just over a fifth of Scottish towns. On the way to work, 13% walk, cycle or take a bus or train.
Figures: prices, HM Land Registry, the last three years · life expectancy, ONS. Police Scotland doesn’t publish street-level crime, so Tullibody has no Safety Grade and, without it, no overall grade. Its other subjects still get grades, below.
The 3 things Tullibody 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 Tullibody is from typical. American towns are graded separately.
Police Scotland doesn’t publish street-level crime, so Tullibody has no Safety Grade and, without it, no overall grade. Its other subjects still get grades, below.
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Historic Environment Scotland lists 4 buildings inside Tullibody’s locality, 1 of them in the top category, and 1 scheduled monument.
Explore the history →Museums, castles, gardens and days out in and near Tullibody. Best known first.
Castle · National Trust for ScotlandAlloa Tower3 km outside town, to the southeast
Castle · National Trust for ScotlandMenstrie Castle1.5 km outside town, to the northwest
CastleClackmannan Tower4.6 km outside town, to the southeast
Historic houseBroomhall Castle1.6 km outside town, to the north
CastleSauchie Tower2.6 km outside town, to the eastAbbey or prioryAbbey or priory · Historic Environment ScotlandCambuskenneth Abbey3.9 km outside town, to the westPhotos: each place’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Tullibody.
At the census, nearly one in ten residents said their health was bad or very bad, higher than both Clackmannanshire’s towns (7.7%) and Scotland’s towns (7.2%). A disability affects just over a quarter of people in Tullibody. Asked at the census, 77% of residents of Tullibody said they were in good or very good health.
| Census 2022 | Tullibody | Clackmannanshire | Scotland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Good or very good health | 77% | 77% | 78% |
| Bad or very bad health | 8.3% | 7.7% | 7.2% |
| Activities limited (health or disability) | 26% | 26% | 24% |
Scotland’s Census 2022, general health and disability · Public Health Scotland life expectancy by intermediate zone, 2020–24 · OGL · Read these answers with age in mind: they aren’t adjusted, so younger places do better. The Health Grade uses age-adjusted measures, life expectancy and early deaths among them.
Of its 6 schools, one is shown below, with the reason. Tullibody’s four primaries have 685 pupils between them.
| School | Level | Pupils | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Abercromby Primary SchoolLargest primary schoolPrimary | Primary | 323 | – |
32% live in social housing, above Clackmannanshire’s towns (27%) and Scotland’s towns (24%) alike. Behind the median of £167,600: 307 sales in Tullibody’s data zones, 2023 to 2025. Households that own their home make up 60%.
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.
No town in Clackmannanshire has fewer listed buildings for its size than Tullibody. The town’s listed buildings include Iron Bridge over River Devon at Cambus, Category A. It has one scheduled monument.
Historic Environment Scotland list, October 2026 · OGL
Scotland’s Census was taken on 20 March 2022, a year after England and Wales’s lockdown census; 27% of workers were mainly at home, and shares here are of those who travelled.
Jobs per working resident: 0.5. Working mainly from home: 27% of workers, near Clackmannanshire’s towns (28%) and lower than Scotland’s towns (31%).
Scotland’s Census 2022 (NRS), method of travel and distance to work · DWP claimant count · OGL
Just over a fifth of adults hold a degree, below both Clackmannanshire’s towns (26%) and Scotland’s towns (32%). Over-65s are 17% of the population. Half the people of Tullibody are older than 41. The share aged 15 to 24 is 11%.
53% women, 47% men
About 90 men for every 100 women. Across Scotland, 51% of residents are women.
| Tullibody | Clackmannanshire | Scotland | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 19% | 16% | 15% |
| 15–24 | 11% | 10% | 12% |
| 25–44 | 25% | 24% | 26% |
| 45–64 | 29% | 29% | 27% |
| 65+ | 17% | 21% | 19% |
| No qualifications | 21% | 19% | 17% |
| Apprenticeship | 8.3% | 8.9% | 7.5% |
| Highers or similar | 11% | 10% | 11% |
| Degree level | 22% | 26% | 32% |
Scotland’s Census 2022 · Clackmannanshire and Scotland: all residents of their towns · OGL
4 listed buildings in Tullibody, 1 of them in the top category.
Tullibody,old parish church: Photo: William Starkey · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Doocot, New Mills Crossing: Photo: Lisa Jarvis · CC BY-SA 2.0
4 notable people were born in Tullibody.
William McKay Aitken: Winterline, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Ralph Walker: William Ridley, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tullibody | 8,515 | — | — | A− | — | D− |
| Menstrie | 2,834 | 1.3 | — | B | — | C |
| Alva | 4,820 | 1.8 | — | A− | — | D |
| Alloa | 14,689 | 1.8 | — | A− | — | D |
| Sauchie | 6,357 | 2.2 | — | A− | — | D− |
| Fallin | 2,769 | 2.5 | — | A+ | — | D− |
| Cowie | 2,708 | 3.8 | — | A+ | — | D |
| Clackmannan | 3,282 | 3.8 | — | 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 Tullibody 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.
Homes cost less than in most UK towns: the median sale over three years was £167,600, against £277,000 in the typical town in England and Wales. On cost of living it is the 230th most affordable of 296 Scottish towns.
GCSE results trail 78% of towns in England (Department for Education, Attainment 8).
Town in Clackmannanshire, Scotland
Tullibody is a locality of 8,515 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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