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Band D council tax is £1,752. It is a town of 4,162 residents in East Dunbartonshire, Scotland.
Lennoxtown’s best grade is for cost of living (A): homes sell for a median £160,700, about 2.8 times local household income. Schools do well: school leavers’ results beat 94% of Scottish towns. Health is a weak point (D): men here can expect to live to 75.5, women to 78.5. Hazard risk is higher than most: 2.8% 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. Lennoxtown has no Safety Grade, because Police Scotland doesn’t publish street-level crime, and so no overall grade. Its 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 Lennoxtown is from typical. American towns are graded separately.
Lennoxtown has no Safety Grade, because Police Scotland doesn’t publish street-level crime, and so no overall grade. Its other subjects are graded below.
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The 3 things Lennoxtown does most differently from other towns.
Historic Environment Scotland lists 2 buildings inside Lennoxtown’s locality, 1 of them in the top category.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Lennoxtown.
At the census, 27% of people here had a disability, higher than both East Dunbartonshire’s towns (21%) and Scotland’s towns (24%). Of the 7 towns in East Dunbartonshire, Lennoxtown has the largest share in bad or very bad health: 8.4%. Just over three quarters of people in Lennoxtown rate their own health good or very good.
| Census 2022 | Lennoxtown | East Dunbartonshire | Scotland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Good or very good health | 76% | 82% | 78% |
| Bad or very bad health | 8.4% | 5.6% | 7.2% |
| Activities limited (health or disability) | 27% | 21% | 24% |
Scotland’s Census 2022, general health and disability · Public Health Scotland life expectancy by intermediate zone, 2020–24 · OGL · A young population flatters these answers, which are not age-adjusted; the Health Grade instead uses measures that allow for age, such as life expectancy and early deaths.
Between them, two primaries teach 254 pupils in Lennoxtown. Of its 2 schools, one is shown below, with the reason.
| School | Level | Pupils | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Machan's Primary SchoolLargest primary schoolPrimary | Primary | 133 | – |
70% of households own their home, between East Dunbartonshire’s towns (82%) and Scotland’s towns (60%). No town in East Dunbartonshire costs less to buy into than Lennoxtown, at £160,700, the lowest of 7. Private tenants account for 6% of households.
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; 30% of workers were mainly at home, and shares here are of those who travelled.
For 17% of commuters, work was under 5 km away. About 6% of its commuters stay in Lennoxtown for work. This East Dunbartonshire town counts 0.4 jobs per working resident. 82% of commuters drove, above East Dunbartonshire’s towns (77%) and Scotland’s towns (70%) alike.
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.
Historic Environment Scotland’s list holds 2 listed buildings inside its locality: 1 Category A.
Historic Environment Scotland list, October 2026 · OGL
Young adults of 15 to 24 are one in ten residents, near East Dunbartonshire’s towns (9.4%) and lower than Scotland’s towns (12%). People 65 and over make up nearly a quarter of the town. Lennoxtown has a median age of 47.7. Degrees are held by 31% of adults.
53% women, 47% men
About 90 men for every 100 women. Across Scotland, 51% of residents are women.
| Lennoxtown | East Dunbartonshire | Scotland | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 15% | 17% | 15% |
| 15–24 | 9.7% | 9.4% | 12% |
| 25–44 | 22% | 21% | 26% |
| 45–64 | 30% | 28% | 27% |
| 65+ | 23% | 24% | 19% |
| No qualifications | 19% | 12% | 17% |
| Apprenticeship | 8.5% | 6.9% | 7.5% |
| Highers or similar | 11% | 11% | 11% |
| Degree level | 31% | 43% | 32% |
Scotland’s Census 2022 · East Dunbartonshire and Scotland: all residents of their towns · OGL
17 notable people were born in Lennoxtown.
Ted McKenna: Paul J. White, CC BY-SA 2.0 · John McLane: by Daniel Strain, Public domain · Denis Lawson: Western Mail, Public domain · John Young: AnonymousUnknown author, Public domain
Town in East Dunbartonshire, Scotland
Lennoxtown is a locality of 4,162 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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lennoxtown | 4,162 | — | — | A | — | D |
| Milton of Campsie | 3,843 | 1.6 | — | A | — | C |
| Kirkintilloch | 22,013 | 3.4 | — | A | — | C− |
| Lenzie | 8,278 | 4 | — | B+ | — | A |
| Bishopbriggs | 23,759 | 4.7 | — | A | — | B− |
| Milngavie | 12,758 | 5.3 | — | A− | — | B |
| Kilsyth | 10,958 | 5.5 | — | A+ | — | D |
| Chryston | 3,257 | 6 | — | B | — | 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.
GCSE results beat 94% of towns in England (Department for Education, Attainment 8). Lennoxtown has 2 state schools; places are handled by the local council.
Homes cost less than in most UK towns: the median sale over three years was £160,700, against £277,000 in the typical town in England and Wales. On cost of living it is the 138th most affordable of 296 Scottish towns.
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.
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