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Band D council tax is £1,620. A town of 3,475 in East Renfrewshire, Scotland.
Where it does best is schools: school leavers’ results beat 100% of Scottish towns. Cost of living is another plus — homes sell for a median £224,300, about 3.8 times local household income. Elsewhere it is close to typical: B− for health and B− for walkability. Natural hazards weigh less here than in most UK towns (A).
Figures: prices, HM Land Registry, the last three years · life expectancy, ONS · commuting, Census 2022 · flood risk, SEPA. Police Scotland doesn’t publish street-level crime, so Eaglesham has no Safety Grade and, without it, no overall grade. Every other subject still has a grade below.
The 3 things Eaglesham 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 Eaglesham is from typical. American towns are graded separately.
Police Scotland doesn’t publish street-level crime, so Eaglesham has no Safety Grade and, without it, no overall grade. Every other subject still has a grade below.
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Historic Environment Scotland lists 64 buildings inside Eaglesham’s locality, 49 of them in the second category.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Eaglesham.
The town has one school, shown below. Its one primary school teaches 371 pupils.
| School | Level | Pupils | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eaglesham Primary SchoolLargest primary schoolPrimary | Primary | 371 | – |
Nearly four in five households own their home, about level with East Renfrewshire’s towns (82%) and above Scotland’s towns (60%). Private tenants account for 8% of households. The social rented sector houses 10% 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.
The heritage lists give each building’s grade but not its age, so we don’t say which is oldest.
Category B covers 49 of them. For its size, Eaglesham has more listed buildings than any other town in East Renfrewshire. Historic Environment Scotland’s list names 64 listed buildings locally: 49 Category B.
Historic Environment Scotland list, October 2026 · OGL
Scotland’s Census was taken on 20 March 2022, a year after England and Wales’s lockdown census; 35% of workers were mainly at home, and shares here are of those who travelled.
14% of commuters travelled under 5 km, below East Renfrewshire’s towns (22%) and Scotland’s towns (44%) alike. Walking, cycling and public transport carried 13% of commuters at the census. Of the commuters living in Eaglesham, 4% work in the town itself. In 2026, 1.6% of 16 to 64s were claiming unemployment benefits.
Scotland’s Census 2022 (NRS), method of travel and distance to work · DWP claimant count · OGL
Self-reported good health: 83% of Eaglesham’s residents. Nearly a fifth of residents have a disability, near East Renfrewshire’s towns (20%) and lower than Scotland’s towns (24%). Poor health, by residents’ own account, affects 6.1% of the town.
| Census 2022 | Eaglesham | East Renfrewshire | Scotland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Good or very good health | 83% | 83% | 78% |
| Bad or very bad health | 6.1% | 5.3% | 7.2% |
| Activities limited (health or disability) | 19% | 20% | 24% |
Scotland’s Census 2022, general health and disability · Public Health Scotland life expectancy by intermediate zone, 2020–24 · OGL · Young towns look healthier on these answers, which aren’t adjusted for age; the Health Grade uses measures that are, such as life expectancy and early deaths.
The median resident of Eaglesham is 45.1 years old. 20% are under 15, higher than both East Renfrewshire’s towns (18%) and Scotland’s towns (15%). Retirement age and beyond: 21% of residents are 65 or older.
51% women, 49% men
About 96 men for every 100 women. Across Scotland, 51% of residents are women.
| Eaglesham | East Renfrewshire | Scotland | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 20% | 18% | 15% |
| 15–24 | 8.9% | 11% | 12% |
| 25–44 | 20% | 21% | 26% |
| 45–64 | 28% | 28% | 27% |
| 65+ | 21% | 22% | 19% |
| No qualifications | 11% | 12% | 17% |
| Apprenticeship | 6.5% | 6% | 7.5% |
| Highers or similar | 14% | 12% | 11% |
| Degree level | 45% | 44% | 32% |
Scotland’s Census 2022 · East Renfrewshire and Scotland: all residents of their towns · OGL
Museums, castles, gardens and days out in and near Eaglesham. Best known first.
CastlePolnoon Castle800 m outside town, to the southeast
CastleMearns Castle3.2 km outside town, to the northwest
MuseumNational Museum of Rural Life4.4 km outside town, to the northeast
CastlePeel Castle3.7 km outside town, to the northeastMuseumMuseum · National Trust for ScotlandGreenbank Garden3.9 km outside town, to the northAttractionAttractionWhitelee Wind Farm Visitor Centre4.4 km outside town, to the southwestPhotos: each place’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
64 listed buildings in Eaglesham.
'Linn Cottage', Montgomery Street: Photo: Richard Sutcliffe · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Geograph · 11 Polnoon Street: Photo: Leslie Barrie · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Geograph
3 notable people were born in Eaglesham.
Chas McDevitt: Jack1956, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eaglesham | 3,475 | — | — | A | — | B− |
| Busby | 3,351 | 2.8 | — | A | — | C |
| Clarkston | 9,486 | 3.2 | — | B+ | — | A+ |
| Newton Mearns | 28,447 | 3.3 | — | B+ | — | A− |
| Stamperland | 3,497 | 3.7 | — | A | — | B+ |
| East Kilbride | 76,626 | 3.8 | — | A+ | — | C− |
| Netherlee | 4,493 | 4.3 | — | B+ | — | A+ |
| Giffnock | 11,963 | 4.4 | — | B+ | — | B+ |
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 almost all towns in England (Department for Education, Attainment 8). One state school is inside the town; places are handled by the local council.
That is 7.6 times the typical town in England and Wales for its size.
Band D council tax in Eaglesham is £1,620 for 2026–27, less than in 94% of UK towns (council, county, police and fire). Your own bill depends on your home’s band; check it on GOV.UK.
Town in East Renfrewshire, Scotland
Eaglesham is a locality of 3,475 people, in the East Renfrewshire 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.
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026 (ONS boundaries). Northern Ireland: Source: NISRA; contains Land & Property Services data and Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland information, © Crown copyright, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Scotland: contains National Records of Scotland data, Registers of Scotland data and SEPA data, © Crown copyright / © SEPA 2025, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
