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The large town, home to 23,759 people, lies in East Dunbartonshire, Scotland. Mortgage-free owners make up 49% of households.
School results are strong: school leavers’ results beat 88% of Scottish towns. Cost of living is a strength too (A) — homes sell for a median £257,600, about 4.5 times local household income. Hazard risk is lower than in most UK towns (A). Band D council tax is £1,752.
Figures: prices, HM Land Registry, the last three years · flood risk, SEPA. Bishopbriggs has no Safety Grade, because Police Scotland doesn’t publish street-level crime, and so no overall grade. Every other subject still has a grade below.
The 3 things Bishopbriggs 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 Bishopbriggs is from typical. American towns are graded separately.
Bishopbriggs has no Safety Grade, because Police Scotland doesn’t publish street-level crime, and so no overall grade. Every other subject still has a grade below.
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Historic Environment Scotland lists 8 buildings inside Bishopbriggs’s locality, 5 of them in the second category, and 1 scheduled monument.
Explore the history →Museums, castles, gardens and days out in and near Bishopbriggs. Best known first.
Big drawMuseumKelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum4.6 km outside town, to the southwest · 1M visitors a year
CathedralGlasgow Cathedral3.7 km outside town, to the south
MuseumGlasgow School of Art3.8 km outside town, to the southwest
Big drawArt galleryGallery of Modern Art4.2 km outside town, to the southwest · 596K visitors a year
CathedralSt Andrew's Cathedral4.7 km outside town, to the southwestPhotos: each place’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Bishopbriggs.
Below are three of its 9 schools, each with why it was picked. Bishopbriggs Academy’s results beat 96% of schools in Scotland like it. Its seven primaries and two secondaries have 4,205 pupils between them.
| School | Level | Pupils | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thomas Muir PrimaryLargest primary schoolPrimary | Primary | 627 | – |
| Bishopbriggs AcademyLargest secondary schoolSecondary | Secondary | 1,370 | A+ |
| Turnbull High SchoolTop results in townSecondary | Secondary | 664 | A+ |
6% rent privately, near East Dunbartonshire’s towns (6%) and lower than Scotland’s towns (13%). Council and housing-body homes hold 7% of households. Private rents average £1,185 a month across the East Dunbartonshire 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.
Scotland’s Census was taken on 20 March 2022, a year after England and Wales’s lockdown census; 34% of workers were mainly at home, and shares here are of those who travelled.
Just over one in ten commuters who live in Bishopbriggs also work there. At the census, a fifth of commuters got to work without a car. Short trips to work, under 5 km: 28%, above East Dunbartonshire’s towns (25%) but below Scotland’s towns (44%). In 2026, 1.7% of 16 to 64s were claiming unemployment benefits.
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.
For its size, Bishopbriggs has the fewest listed buildings of the towns in East Dunbartonshire. Conservation areas cover 1% of Bishopbriggs’ land, below East Dunbartonshire’s towns (8%) and close to Scotland’s towns (1%). The town has one scheduled monument.
Historic Environment Scotland list, October 2026 · OGL
Men in Bishopbriggs can expect to live to 80.6, women to 86.3 (2020–24). A disability affects just over a fifth of people locally.
| Census 2022 | Bishopbriggs | East Dunbartonshire | Scotland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Good or very good health | 80% | 82% | 78% |
| Bad or very bad health | 5.8% | 5.6% | 7.2% |
| Activities limited (health or disability) | 22% | 21% | 24% |
Scotland’s Census 2022, general health and disability · Public Health Scotland life expectancy by intermediate zone, 2020–24 · OGL · No age adjustment applies to these census answers, which flatter younger towns; the Health Grade’s measures, life expectancy and early deaths among them, do allow for age.
Young adults of 15 to 24 are nearly one in ten residents, about level with East Dunbartonshire’s towns (9.4%) and below Scotland’s towns (12%). Bishopbriggs has a median age of 45.8 years. Graduates make up 37% of adults.
51% women, 49% men
About 95 men for every 100 women. Across Scotland, 51% of residents are women.
| Bishopbriggs | East Dunbartonshire | Scotland | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 16% | 17% | 15% |
| 15–24 | 9.1% | 9.4% | 12% |
| 25–44 | 24% | 21% | 26% |
| 45–64 | 28% | 28% | 27% |
| 65+ | 23% | 24% | 19% |
| No qualifications | 15% | 12% | 17% |
| Apprenticeship | 8.3% | 6.9% | 7.5% |
| Highers or similar | 11% | 11% | 11% |
| Degree level | 37% | 43% | 32% |
Scotland’s Census 2022 · East Dunbartonshire and Scotland: all residents of their towns · OGL
8 listed buildings in Bishopbriggs.
Huntershill House: Photo: Dumgoyne · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Cadder Bridge Cottages: Photo: Richard Sutcliffe · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Geograph · Kirkintilloch Road, Strathkelvin District Library Headquarters, Formerly Bishopbriggs High School: Photo: Stephen Sweeney · CC BY-SA 2.0 · 118, 120 Kirkintilloch Road the Crow Tavern: Photo: Stephen Sweeney · CC BY-SA 2.0
11 notable people were born in Bishopbriggs.
Amy Macdonald: Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Jack Bruce: Christian Sahm, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Nieve Jennings: Jose Rosengurtt, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Stuart Bannigan: Andrew Hendo, CC BY-SA 3.0
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bishopbriggs | 23,759 | — | — | A | — | B− |
| Lenzie | 8,278 | 2.5 | — | B+ | — | A |
| Stepps | 7,643 | 3.1 | — | A | — | C− |
| Kirkintilloch | 22,013 | 3.6 | — | A | — | C− |
| Glasgow | 617,904 | 3.9 | — | B− | — | D− |
| Chryston | 3,257 | 4.1 | — | B | — | C− |
| Milton of Campsie | 3,843 | 4.3 | — | A | — | C |
| Lennoxtown | 4,162 | 4.7 | — | 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.
GCSE results beat 88% of towns in England (Department for Education, Attainment 8).
Surface water isn’t included. Check a specific address on GOV.UK’s flood risk service.
Band D council tax in Bishopbriggs is £1,752 for 2026–27, less than in 87% of UK towns (council, county, police and fire). Your own bill depends on your home’s band; check it on GOV.UK.
Large town in East Dunbartonshire, Scotland
Bishopbriggs is a locality of 23,759 people, in the East Dunbartonshire 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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