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A Band D home pays £1,752 in council tax. 8,278 people call this town in East Dunbartonshire, Scotland home.
Lenzie’s schools beat most: school leavers’ results beat 93% of Scottish towns. Health outcomes beat most towns: life expectancy is 83.8 for men and 86.7 for women. Buying the median home, at £308,200, takes 5.4 years of household income in the East Dunbartonshire council area. Where it falls short is hazard risk — 2.1% of homes at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea.
Figures: life expectancy and incomes, ONS · flood risk, SEPA · prices, HM Land Registry, the last three years. Without street-level crime figures from Police Scotland, Lenzie has no Safety Grade, and so no overall grade. The other subjects are graded below.
The 3 things Lenzie 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 Lenzie is from typical. American towns are graded separately.
Without street-level crime figures from Police Scotland, Lenzie has no Safety Grade, and so no overall grade. The other subjects are graded below.
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Historic Environment Scotland lists 18 buildings inside Lenzie’s locality, 2 of them in the top category.
The archive holds 2 old photos and postcards going back to 1902.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Lenzie.
Young adults of 15 to 24 are 9% of the population. People 65 and over make up 25% of the town, higher than both East Dunbartonshire’s towns (24%) and Scotland’s towns (19%). Children are 17% of the town. The age that splits Lenzie in two is 47.6.
51% women, 49% men
About 95 men for every 100 women. Across Scotland, 51% of residents are women.
| Lenzie | East Dunbartonshire | Scotland | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 17% | 17% | 15% |
| 15–24 | 9% | 9.4% | 12% |
| 25–44 | 20% | 21% | 26% |
| 45–64 | 28% | 28% | 27% |
| 65+ | 25% | 24% | 19% |
| No qualifications | 7.8% | 12% | 17% |
| Apprenticeship | 5.8% | 6.9% | 7.5% |
| Highers or similar | 12% | 11% | 11% |
| Degree level | 52% | 43% | 32% |
Scotland’s Census 2022 · East Dunbartonshire and Scotland: all residents of their towns · OGL
Of its 4 schools, two are shown below, each with the reason. Lenzie Academy’s results beat 95% of schools in Scotland like it. Its three primaries and one secondary have 2,587 pupils between them.
| School | Level | Pupils | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lenzie Meadow Primary SchoolLargest primary schoolPrimary | Primary | 566 | – |
| Lenzie AcademyLargest secondary schoolSecondary | Secondary | 1,365 | A+ |
3.8% of residents report bad or very bad health. At the census, 18% of people here had a disability, below both East Dunbartonshire’s towns (21%) and Scotland’s towns (24%). Self-reported good health: 86% of Lenzie’s residents.
| Census 2022 | Lenzie | East Dunbartonshire | Scotland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Good or very good health | 86% | 82% | 78% |
| Bad or very bad health | 3.8% | 5.6% | 7.2% |
| Activities limited (health or disability) | 18% | 21% | 24% |
Scotland’s Census 2022, general health and disability · Public Health Scotland life expectancy by intermediate zone, 2020–24 · OGL · The census answers take no account of age, so a young town looks healthier; the Health Grade relies on age-adjusted measures, life expectancy and early deaths among them.
Scotland’s Census was taken on 20 March 2022, a year after England and Wales’s lockdown census; 36% of workers were mainly at home, and shares here are of those who travelled.
At the census, just over a fifth of commuters walked, cycled or took the bus or train. Of the commuters living in Lenzie, 4% work in the town itself. There are 0.4 jobs in Lenzie for each resident in work. Working mainly from home: 36% of workers, higher than both East Dunbartonshire’s towns (34%) and Scotland’s towns (31%).
Scotland’s Census 2022 (NRS), method of travel and distance to work · DWP claimant count · OGL
Owners make up 92% of households, above East Dunbartonshire’s towns (82%) and Scotland’s towns (60%) alike. Social renters account for 3% of households. Only one of the 7 towns in East Dunbartonshire costs more to buy into than Lenzie, whose median sale is £308,200.
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.
The heritage lists give each building’s grade but not its age, so we don’t say which is oldest.
The top grade, Category A, goes to 2 of them. Lenzie’s listed buildings include Heriot Road, Lenzie Warwick Croft and No 43 Alexandra Road, Category A. Only one town in East Dunbartonshire has more listed buildings for its size than Lenzie. It has 18 listed buildings on Historic Environment Scotland’s list: 2 Category A, 7 Category B.
Historic Environment Scotland list, October 2026 · OGL
Museums, castles, gardens and days out in and near Lenzie. Best known first.
CastleBedlay Castle2.9 km outside town, to the southeastGardenGardenSeven Lochs Wetland Park4.4 km outside town, to the southeastMuseumMuseumAuld Kirk Museum1.1 km outside town, to the northMuseumMuseumThe Mousdale Fondation1.4 km outside town, to the westCastleCastleBalgray Tower4.9 km outside town, to the southwestAttractionAttractionGartloch Hospital4.5 km outside town, to the southeastPhotos: each place’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
18 listed buildings in Lenzie, 2 of them in the top category.
Lenzie, Beech Road St Cyprian's Episcopal Church & Lych Gate: Photo: WeeHolly · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Lenzie Old Parish Church, Kirkintilloch Road: Photo: Richard Sutcliffe · CC BY-SA 2.0
7 notable people were born in Lenzie.
Mike Miller: Pvt pauline, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lenzie | 8,278 | — | — | B+ | — | A |
| Kirkintilloch | 22,013 | 1.3 | — | A | — | C− |
| Chryston | 3,257 | 2.3 | — | B | — | C− |
| Stepps | 7,643 | 2.4 | — | A | — | C− |
| Bishopbriggs | 23,759 | 2.5 | — | A | — | B− |
| Milton of Campsie | 3,843 | 2.8 | — | A | — | C |
| Moodiesburn | 6,706 | 2.9 | — | A+ | — | D |
| Gartcosh | 3,252 | 3.6 | — | 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.
At the 2022 Census, 9% of Lenzie’s 8,278 residents were 15 to 24 and 25% were 65 or over, against 12% and 19% across Scotland’s towns.
GCSE results beat 93% 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.
Town in East Dunbartonshire, Scotland
Lenzie is a locality of 8,278 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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