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A town of 9,390 in the Falkirk council area, Scotland.
Police Scotland doesn’t publish street-level crime, so Denny has no Safety Grade and, without it, no overall grade. Its other subjects are graded below. Its strongest subject is cost of living (A−): the 210th most affordable of 296 Scottish towns: median sale £154,200, 3.5 years of area income; rent £930 a month. Its weakest is health (D): life expectancy 78 for men, 81.1 for women.
The 3 things Denny 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 Denny is from typical. American towns are graded separately.
Police Scotland doesn’t publish street-level crime, so Denny has no Safety Grade and, without it, no overall grade. Its other subjects are graded below.
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Historic Environment Scotland lists 4 buildings inside Denny’s locality, 2 of them in the second category.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Denny.
At the census, nearly a quarter of people here had a disability, close to both Falkirk council area’s towns (25%) and Scotland’s towns (24%). 78% of Denny’s residents described their health as good or very good in 2022, against 78% across the council area’s towns.
| Census 2022 | Denny | Falkirk council area | Scotland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Good or very good health | 78% | 78% | 78% |
| Bad or very bad health | 7.3% | 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 · 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.
Of its 4 schools, two are shown below, each with the reason. Between them, three primaries and one secondary teach 2,145 pupils in Denny.
| School | Level | Pupils | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Denny Primary SchoolLargest primary schoolPrimary | Primary | 324 | – |
| Denny High SchoolLargest secondary schoolSecondary | Secondary | 1,397 | C+ |
The private rented sector houses nearly one in ten households. 29% live in social housing, above both Falkirk council area’s towns (26%) and Scotland’s towns (24%). 456 sales in Denny’s data zones from 2023 to 2025 make up the median of £154,200.
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.
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; 28% of workers were mainly at home, and shares here are of those who travelled.
3.6% of 16 to 64s claimed unemployment benefits in 2026, above both Falkirk council area’s towns (2.6%) and Scotland’s towns (2.8%). Driving is how 83% of commuters got to work at the census. For 23% of commuters, work was under 5 km away.
Scotland’s Census 2022 (NRS), method of travel and distance to work · DWP claimant count · OGL
Children under 15 make up 17%, higher than both Falkirk council area’s towns (16%) and Scotland’s towns (15%). The age that splits Denny in two is 40.8. People 65 and over make up 17% of the town.
51% women, 49% men
About an even split. Across Scotland, 51% of residents are women.
| Denny | Falkirk council area | Scotland | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 17% | 16% | 15% |
| 15–24 | 10% | 10% | 12% |
| 25–44 | 27% | 25% | 26% |
| 45–64 | 27% | 29% | 27% |
| 65+ | 17% | 19% | 19% |
| No qualifications | 18% | 17% | 17% |
| Apprenticeship | 9.6% | 9.3% | 7.5% |
| Highers or similar | 11% | 11% | 11% |
| Degree level | 23% | 26% | 32% |
Scotland’s Census 2022 · Falkirk council area and Scotland: all residents of their towns · OGL
Museums, castles, gardens and days out in and near Denny. Best known first.
CastlePlean Castle4.8 km outside town, to the northeast
CastleCastlecary Castle4.2 km outside town, to the southwestAttractionAttractionFalkirk Wheel3.5 km outside town, to the southeastPhotos: each place’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
31 notable people were born in Denny.
John McNally: Chris McAndrew, CC BY 3.0 · Jack Hamilton: Blethering Scot, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Peter Dougall: Bram Wisman / Anefo, CC0 · Thomas Bain: William James Topley, Public domain
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Denny | 9,390 | — | — | A− | — | D |
| Dunipace | 2,563 | 0.8 | — | A− | — | D |
| Bonnybridge | 5,085 | 1.3 | — | A− | — | D |
| Larbert | 12,688 | 3.4 | — | B− | — | C |
| Stenhousemuir | 9,566 | 4 | — | A− | — | C− |
| Falkirk | 34,637 | 4.7 | — | A | — | D− |
| Cowie | 2,708 | 4.7 | — | A+ | — | D |
| Bannockburn | 6,587 | 4.9 | — | 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.
Homes cost less than in most UK towns: the median sale over three years was £154,200, against £277,000 in the typical town in England and Wales. On cost of living it is the 210th most affordable of 296 Scottish towns.
Band D council tax in Denny is £1,715 for 2026–27, less than in 89% of UK towns (council, county, police and fire). Your own bill depends on your home’s band; check it on GOV.UK.
Town in Falkirk, Scotland
Denny is a locality of 9,390 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
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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