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Band D council tax is £1,579. A town of 4,411 in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland.
Housing is within reach: a typical home costs £150,500 and rent runs £641 a month. Walkability is a strength too — on the way to work, 22% walk, cycle or take a bus or train. Where it falls short is health (D) — life expectancy 74.9 for men, 80.2 for women. It lags on schools as well — school leavers’ results beat 29% of Scottish towns.
Figures: prices, HM Land Registry, the last three years · commuting, Census 2022 · life expectancy, ONS. Police Scotland doesn’t publish street-level crime, so Lockerbie has no Safety Grade and, without it, no overall grade. The other subjects are graded below.
The 3 things Lockerbie 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 Lockerbie is from typical. American towns are graded separately.
Police Scotland doesn’t publish street-level crime, so Lockerbie has no Safety Grade and, without it, no overall grade. The other subjects are graded below.
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Historic Environment Scotland lists 38 buildings inside Lockerbie’s locality, 1 of them in the top category.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Lockerbie.
Private renters make up 12% of households, below both Dumfries and Galloway’s towns (12%) and Scotland’s towns (13%). 218 sales in Lockerbie’s data zones from 2023 to 2025 make up the median of £150,500. Just over a quarter of households live in social housing.
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.
Both of the town’s schools appear below. Lockerbie’s one primary and one secondary have 983 pupils between them. Its two schools are below.
| School | Level | Pupils | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lockerbie Primary SchoolLargest primary schoolPrimary | Primary | 291 | – |
| Lockerbie AcademyLargest secondary schoolSecondary | Secondary | 692 | C |
Disability touches 28% of Lockerbie’s population. At the census, 75% of people in Lockerbie called their health good or very good, close to Dumfries and Galloway’s towns (76%) and below Scotland’s towns (78%).
| Census 2022 | Lockerbie | Dumfries and Galloway | Scotland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Good or very good health | 75% | 76% | 78% |
| Bad or very bad health | 7.2% | 7.7% | 7.2% |
| Activities limited (health or disability) | 28% | 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.
Scotland’s Census was taken on 20 March 2022, a year after England and Wales’s lockdown census; 20% of workers were mainly at home, and shares here are of those who travelled.
Jobs per working resident: 1. Working mainly from home: 20% of workers, lower than both Dumfries and Galloway’s towns (24%) and Scotland’s towns (31%). 45% of commuters travelled under 5 km to work. Work in town: 28% of resident commuters.
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.
Relative to its size, Lockerbie keeps 86 listed buildings per 10,000 residents, above Dumfries and Galloway’s towns (75) and Scotland’s towns (22) alike. The town’s listed buildings include High Street, Town Hall, Category A.
Historic Environment Scotland list, October 2026 · OGL
People aged 15 to 24 make up 10% of the town, about level with Dumfries and Galloway’s towns (9.9%) and below Scotland’s towns (12%). At 47.9, the median resident of Lockerbie sits in the middle of the age range. Just over a fifth of adults hold a degree.
51% women, 49% men
About 96 men for every 100 women. Across Scotland, 51% of residents are women.
| Lockerbie | Dumfries and Galloway | Scotland | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 15% | 15% | 15% |
| 15–24 | 10% | 9.9% | 12% |
| 25–44 | 22% | 22% | 26% |
| 45–64 | 27% | 28% | 27% |
| 65+ | 26% | 25% | 19% |
| No qualifications | 25% | 23% | 17% |
| Apprenticeship | 10% | 8.9% | 7.5% |
| Highers or similar | 11% | 11% | 11% |
| Degree level | 21% | 23% | 32% |
Scotland’s Census 2022 · Dumfries and Galloway and Scotland: all residents of their towns · OGL
38 listed buildings in Lockerbie, 1 of them in the top category.
Station Square Lockerbie Station: Photo: Rosser1954 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Ashgrove Terrace, All Saints Episcopal Church: Photo: Chris Newman · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Carlisle Road, Somerton House Hotel, Including Gatepiers: Photo: Jim Barton · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Geograph · Bridge Street, Library: Photo: Richard Dorrell · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Geograph
8 notable people were born in Lockerbie.
Claire Hamilton: Krazytea, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Andrew Halliday: Wellcome Library, London, CC0
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lockerbie | 4,411 | — | — | A+ | — | D |
| Locharbriggs | 5,488 | 9 | — | A+ | — | C |
| Annan | 8,697 | 10 | — | A+ | — | D |
| Dumfries | 33,694 | 11 | — | 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 3.5 times the typical town in England and Wales for its size. Its Category A building is High Street, Town Hall.
Homes cost less than in most UK towns: the median sale over three years was £150,500, against £277,000 in the typical town in England and Wales. On cost of living it is the 26th most affordable of 296 Scottish towns.
Band D council tax in Lockerbie 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.
Lockerbie has 2 state schools; places are handled by the local council.
Town in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland
Lockerbie is a locality of 4,411 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
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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