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Band D council tax is £1,579. 5,488 people live in this town in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland.
Locharbriggs’s strongest is cost of living: homes sell for a median £141,900, about 3.4 times local household income. School results are strong (B+): school leavers’ results beat 68% of Scottish towns. Health outcomes fall short of most towns: life expectancy is 79.2 for men and 83 for women. Natural hazards are less of a worry than in most UK towns — 0.1% of homes at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea.
Figures: prices, HM Land Registry, the last three years · life expectancy, ONS · flood risk, SEPA. Police Scotland doesn’t publish street-level crime, so Locharbriggs has no Safety Grade and, without it, no overall grade. The other subjects are graded below.
Each subject compared with the 2,160 UK towns with an overall grade (schools within Scotland), ordered by how far Locharbriggs is from typical. American towns are graded separately.
Police Scotland doesn’t publish street-level crime, so Locharbriggs has no Safety Grade and, without it, no overall grade. The other subjects are graded below.
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The 3 things Locharbriggs does most differently from other towns.
Historic Environment Scotland lists 2 buildings inside Locharbriggs’s locality, 1 of them in the second category.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Locharbriggs.
Social housing holds just over one in ten households. Behind the median of £141,900: 293 sales in Locharbriggs’s data zones, 2023 to 2025. Private rents average £641 a month across the Dumfries and Galloway council area.
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.
Below is one of its 3 schools, and why it was picked. Locharbriggs’s two primaries have 389 pupils between them.
| School | Level | Pupils | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Heathhall Primary SchoolLargest primary schoolPrimary | Primary | 276 | – |
Of the 10 towns in Dumfries and Galloway, Locharbriggs has the smallest share in bad or very bad health: 6.9%. At the census, a quarter of people here had a disability, below Dumfries and Galloway’s towns (27%) and close to Scotland’s towns (24%). Women here live to 83 on average and men to 79.2 (2020–24).
| Census 2022 | Locharbriggs | Dumfries and Galloway | Scotland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Good or very good health | 78% | 76% | 78% |
| Bad or very bad health | 6.9% | 7.7% | 7.2% |
| Activities limited (health or disability) | 25% | 27% | 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.
The heritage lists give each building’s grade but not its age, so we don’t say which is oldest.
Per 10,000 residents, Locharbriggs counts 4 listed buildings, lower than both Dumfries and Galloway’s towns (78) and Scotland’s towns (22). The town has 2 listed buildings on Historic Environment Scotland’s list: 1 Category B.
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; 23% of workers were mainly at home, and shares here are of those who travelled.
2% of 16 to 64s claimed unemployment benefits in 2026, below both Dumfries and Galloway’s towns (3.1%) and Scotland’s towns (2.8%). At the census, 88% of commuters went by car. About 11% of its commuters stay in Locharbriggs for work. Also worth knowing: the census counted 23% of workers working mainly from home.
Scotland’s Census 2022 (NRS), method of travel and distance to work · DWP claimant count · OGL
People 65 and over make up a quarter of the town, near Dumfries and Galloway’s towns (25%) and higher than Scotland’s towns (19%). Locharbriggs has a median age of 48.2 years. Degrees are held by 21% of adults.
52% women, 48% men
About 92 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.
| Locharbriggs | Dumfries and Galloway | Scotland | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 15% | 15% | 15% |
| 15–24 | 8.7% | 9.9% | 12% |
| 25–44 | 23% | 22% | 26% |
| 45–64 | 29% | 28% | 27% |
| 65+ | 25% | 25% | 19% |
| No qualifications | 23% | 23% | 17% |
| Apprenticeship | 11% | 8.9% | 7.5% |
| Highers or similar | 10% | 11% | 11% |
| Degree level | 21% | 23% | 32% |
Scotland’s Census 2022 · Dumfries and Galloway and Scotland: all residents of their towns · OGL
Museums, castles, gardens and days out in and near Locharbriggs. Best known first.
MuseumDumfries and Galloway Aviation Museumin town
MuseumDumfries Museum2.6 km outside town, to the southwest
MuseumGracefield Arts Centre1.6 km outside town, to the southwest
MuseumRobert Burns Centre2.5 km outside town, to the southwestMuseumMuseumOld Bridge House Museum2.5 km outside town, to the southwestMuseumMuseumCamera Obscura2.6 km outside town, to the southwestPhotos: each place’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
Town in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland
Locharbriggs is a locality of 5,488 people, in the Dumfries and Galloway 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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Locharbriggs | 5,488 | — | — | A+ | — | C |
| Dumfries | 33,694 | 2.3 | — | A+ | — | D |
| Lockerbie | 4,411 | 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.
Homes cost less than in most UK towns: the median sale over three years was £141,900, against £277,000 in the typical town in England and Wales. On cost of living it is the 18th most affordable of 296 Scottish towns.
Band D council tax in Locharbriggs is £1,579 for 2026–27, less than in 96% 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.
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.