CarronshoreFalkirk council area
A town of 2,880 in the Falkirk council area, Scotland.
Is Carronshore a good place to live?
Police Scotland doesn’t publish street-level crime, so Carronshore has no Safety Grade and, without it, no overall grade. Its other subjects are graded below. Its strongest subject is schools (A): school leavers’ results beat 86% of Scottish towns. Its weakest is health (D): life expectancy 77.8 for men, 80.7 for women. The median home sold for £186,700 in the last three years, 4.2 times what households in the Falkirk council area earn in a year.
What makes Carronshore stand out
The 3 things Carronshore does most differently from other towns.
How Carronshore grades
Each subject compared with the 2,160 UK towns with an overall grade (schools within Scotland), ordered by how far Carronshore is from typical. American towns are graded separately.
Police Scotland doesn’t publish street-level crime, so Carronshore has no Safety Grade and, without it, no overall grade. Its other subjects are graded below.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Airth Castle and 9 more in and around Carronshore
Museums, castles, gardens and days out in and near Carronshore. Best known first.
CastleAirth Castle3.2 km outside town, to the north
MuseumCallendar House3.1 km outside town, to the south
CastlePlean Castle4.9 km outside town, to the northwestMuseumMuseum · National Trust for ScotlandThe Dunmore Pineapple4.8 km outside town, to the northAttractionAttractionThe Kelpies1.3 km outside town, to the southeastAttractionAttractionFalkirk Wheel4.4 km outside town, to the southwestPhotos: each place’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
Photo credits (3)
- Airth Castle: James Allan, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Callendar House: John Lord, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Plean Castle: Derek Ferris, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
The data
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Carronshore.
A younger town: only 15% of people in Carronshore are 65 or over, fewer than in Falkirk council area’s towns and Scotland’s towns
Carronshore sits below both Falkirk council area’s towns (19%) and Scotland’s towns (19%) on this measure. Under-15s account for 18% of the population. The median resident of Carronshore is 41.2 years old.
Ages · share of residents
Qualifications · residents 16 and older
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About an even split. Across Scotland, 51% of residents are women.
| Carronshore | Falkirk council area | Scotland | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 18% | 16% | 15% |
| 15–24 | 12% | 10% | 12% |
| 25–44 | 26% | 25% | 26% |
| 45–64 | 30% | 29% | 27% |
| 65+ | 15% | 19% | 19% |
| No qualifications | 18% | 17% | 17% |
| Apprenticeship | 10% | 9.3% | 7.5% |
| Highers or similar | 11% | 11% | 11% |
| Degree level | 21% | 26% | 32% |
Scotland’s Census 2022 · Falkirk council area and Scotland: all residents of their towns · OGL
Carronshore gets an A for
Its one school is below. The grade uses the secondaries its children go to; Scotland publishes no primary results by school.
| School | Level | Pupils | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carronshore Primary SchoolLargest primary schoolPrimary | Primary | 245 | – |
Life expectancy in Carronshore is shorter than in 85% of UK towns
Women here live to 80.7 on average and men to 77.8 (2020–24). These answers aren’t adjusted for age, so young towns look healthier; the Health Grade uses age-adjusted measures, including life expectancy and early deaths.
| Census 2022 | Carronshore | Falkirk council area | Scotland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Good or very good health | 78% | 78% | 78% |
| Bad or very bad health | 6.6% | 7.2% | 7.2% |
| Activities limited (health or disability) | 24% | 25% | 24% |
Scotland’s Census 2022, general health and disability · Public Health Scotland life expectancy by intermediate zone, 2020–24 · OGL
Private renting is less common in Carronshore than in Falkirk council area’s towns or across Scotland’s towns: 6%
That puts Carronshore below both Falkirk council area’s towns (9%) and Scotland’s towns (13%).
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
0 listed buildings, 0 of them in the top category
The heritage lists give each building’s grade but not its age, so we don’t say which is oldest.
Carronshore has 0 listed buildings inside its locality on Historic Environment Scotland’s list: 0 Category A, 0 Category B.
Listed buildings by grade · Historic Environment Scotland
Historic Environment Scotland list, October 2026 · OGL
Walking, cycling and public transport carry fewer commuters in Carronshore than in Falkirk council area’s towns or Scotland’s towns: 13%
Scotland’s Census was taken on 20 March 2022, a year after England and Wales’s lockdown census; 26% of workers were mainly at home, and shares here are of those who travelled.
On this, Carronshore is below both Falkirk council area’s towns (17%) and Scotland’s towns (27%). The car carried 84% of commuters at the census.
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 Carronshore
Famous people from Carronshore
4 notable people were born in Carronshore.
Photo credits
Daniel McVey: Not identified, Public domain
Carronshore’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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carronshore | 2,880 | — | — | B+ | — | D |
| Stenhousemuir | 9,566 | 1.1 | — | A− | — | C− |
| Larbert | 12,688 | 1.8 | — | B− | — | C |
| Falkirk | 34,637 | 2 | — | A | — | D− |
| Grangemouth | 16,028 | 2.7 | — | A | — | D− |
| Hallglen | 3,158 | 3 | — | A | — | D− |
| Redding | 3,812 | 3.3 | — | B+ | — | C− |
| Kincardine | 2,887 | 3.8 | — | 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.
Questions about Carronshore
Are schools in Carronshore good?
GCSE results beat 86% of towns in England (Department for Education, Attainment 8). One state school is inside the town; places are handled by the local council.
Is Carronshore expensive to live in?
Homes cost less than in most UK towns: the median sale over three years was £186,700, against £277,000 in the typical town in England and Wales. On cost of living it is the 242nd most affordable of 296 Scottish towns.
Does Carronshore flood?
Surface water isn’t included. Check a specific address on GOV.UK’s flood risk service.
About Carronshore
Town in Falkirk, Scotland
Carronshore is a locality of 2,880 people, in the Falkirk 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
- 2,880 (Census 2022)
- Council
- Falkirk
- Nation
- Scotland
- Area
- 0.3 sq mi (0.7 km²)
- NRS code
- S52000128
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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