DronganEast Ayrshire
3,063 people call this town in East Ayrshire, Scotland home. Walking, cycling and public transport carry 15% of commuters.
Is Drongan a good place to live?
Buying a home costs less than in most towns (A+): a typical home costs £91,600 and rent runs £656 a month. Where it falls short is health — life expectancy is 74 for men and 81 for women. Its remaining grades are unremarkable: B for schools and B for walkability. Natural hazards weigh more here: 2.9% 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 · commuting, Census 2022 · flood risk, SEPA. Drongan has no Safety Grade, because Police Scotland doesn’t publish street-level crime, and so no overall grade. Its other subjects still get grades, below.
What makes Drongan stand out
The 3 things Drongan does most differently from other towns.
How Drongan grades
Each subject compared with the 2,160 UK towns with an overall grade (schools within Scotland), ordered by how far Drongan is from typical. American towns are graded separately.
Drongan has no Safety Grade, because Police Scotland doesn’t publish street-level crime, and so no overall grade. Its other subjects still get grades, below.
How TownRatings grades towns →
The data
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Drongan.
Fewer people in Drongan hold a degree than in East Ayrshire’s towns or Scotland’s towns: 14%
The share of residents under 15 is 17%. Drongan has a median age of 44.6 years. Young adults of 15 to 24 are just over a tenth of the population.
Ages · share of residents
Qualifications · residents 16 and older
Women and men · all residents
55% women, 45% men
About 83 men for every 100 women. Across Scotland, 51% of residents are women.
| Drongan | East Ayrshire | Scotland | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 17% | 16% | 15% |
| 15–24 | 11% | 10% | 12% |
| 25–44 | 23% | 24% | 26% |
| 45–64 | 29% | 29% | 27% |
| 65+ | 21% | 21% | 19% |
| No qualifications | 28% | 22% | 17% |
| Apprenticeship | 9.5% | 8.7% | 7.5% |
| Highers or similar | 8.6% | 10% | 11% |
| Degree level | 14% | 23% | 32% |
Scotland’s Census 2022 · East Ayrshire and Scotland: all residents of their towns · OGL
Results at Drongan’s schools beat 62% of Scottish towns
Its one school is below. The town’s primary school has 241 pupils.
| School | Level | Pupils | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drongan Primary SchoolLargest primary schoolPrimary | Primary | 241 | – |
Buying in Drongan costs less than in East Ayrshire’s towns and across Scotland’s towns, at an estimated median of £92K
56% of households own their home. Social housing holds 35% of households, higher than both East Ayrshire’s towns (26%) and Scotland’s towns (24%). The private rented sector houses 7% of households.
Median sale price · 2023 to 2025, at early-2025 prices
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.
Drongan’s life expectancy trails 93% of UK towns
At the census, 29% of people here had a disability, higher than both East Ayrshire’s towns (27%) and Scotland’s towns (24%). Asked at the census, nearly three quarters of residents of Drongan said they were in good or very good health. Poor health, by residents’ own account, affects 8.3% of the town.
| Census 2022 | Drongan | East Ayrshire | Scotland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Good or very good health | 74% | 76% | 78% |
| Bad or very bad health | 8.3% | 8.1% | 7.2% |
| Activities limited (health or disability) | 29% | 27% | 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.
No listed buildings in Drongan
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 has no building inside Drongan’s locality.
Listed buildings by grade · Historic Environment Scotland
Historic Environment Scotland list, October 2026 · OGL
Only 11% of Drongan’s commuters work within 5 km, fewer than in East Ayrshire’s towns and across Scotland’s towns
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.
Among 16 to 64s, 4.1% claimed unemployment benefits in 2026. The car took 84% of commuters, above both East Ayrshire’s towns (82%) and Scotland’s towns (70%). The census counted nearly a quarter of workers working mainly from home.
How commuters got to work · March 2022
Scotland’s Census 2022 (NRS), method of travel and distance to work · DWP claimant count · OGL
Everything we know about Drongan
Drongan’s neighbours
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drongan | 3,063 | — | — | A+ | — | D |
| Ayr | 46,209 | 6.3 | — | A+ | — | D |
| Mauchline | 3,809 | 6.5 | — | A+ | — | D |
| Prestwick | 14,550 | 6.9 | — | A+ | — | C− |
| Auchinleck | 3,682 | 7.1 | — | A+ | — | D− |
| Cumnock | 8,835 | 8.1 | — | A+ | — | D− |
| Maybole | 4,333 | 10 | — | A+ | — | D− |
| Troon | 15,271 | 11 | — | A+ | — | 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.
Questions about Drongan
Is Drongan expensive to live in?
Homes cost less than in most UK towns: the median sale over three years was £91,600, against £277,000 in the typical town in England and Wales. On cost of living it is the 15th most affordable of 296 Scottish towns.
Who lives in Drongan?
At the 2022 Census, 11% of Drongan’s 3,063 residents were 15 to 24 and 21% were 65 or over, against 12% and 19% across Scotland’s towns.
Does Drongan flood?
Surface water isn’t included. Check a specific address on GOV.UK’s flood risk service.
About Drongan
Town in East Ayrshire, Scotland
Drongan is a locality of 3,063 people, in the East Ayrshire 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
- Population
- 3,063 (Census 2022)
- Council
- East Ayrshire
- Nation
- Scotland
- Area
- 0.3 sq mi (0.9 km²)
- NRS code
- S52000199
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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