Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
A town of 16,028 in the Falkirk council area, Scotland.
Police Scotland doesn’t publish street-level crime, so Grangemouth 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 201st most affordable of 296 Scottish towns: median sale £118,400, 2.7 years of area income; rent £930 a month. Its weakest is hazard risk (D−): 13% of homes at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea.
The 3 things Grangemouth 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 Grangemouth is from typical. American towns are graded separately.
Police Scotland doesn’t publish street-level crime, so Grangemouth has no Safety Grade and, without it, no overall grade. Its other subjects are graded below.
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Historic Environment Scotland lists 12 buildings inside Grangemouth’s locality, 1 of them in the top category, and 1 scheduled monument.
Explore the history →Museums, castles, gardens and days out in and near Grangemouth. Best known first.
CastleAirth Castle4.7 km outside town, to the northwest
Castle · Historic Environment ScotlandKinneil House2.5 km outside town, to the east
MuseumCallendar House1.8 km outside town, to the southwest
Abbey or prioryCulross Abbey4.3 km outside town, to the northeast
Museum · National Trust for ScotlandCulross Palace3.9 km outside town, to the northeastPhotos: each place’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Grangemouth.
Children under 15 make up 14%, below both Falkirk council area’s towns (16%) and Scotland’s towns (15%). People 65 and over make up just over a fifth of the town. Half of Grangemouth is older than 45.3, half younger. Young adults of 15 to 24 account for 10% of the town.
52% women, 48% men
About 94 men for every 100 women. Across Scotland, 51% of residents are women.
| Grangemouth | Falkirk council area | Scotland | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 14% | 16% | 15% |
| 15–24 | 10% | 10% | 12% |
| 25–44 | 25% | 25% | 26% |
| 45–64 | 30% | 29% | 27% |
| 65+ | 21% | 19% | 19% |
| No qualifications | 20% | 17% | 17% |
| Apprenticeship | 10% | 9.3% | 7.5% |
| Highers or similar | 10% | 11% | 11% |
| Degree level | 16% | 26% | 32% |
Scotland’s Census 2022 · Falkirk council area and Scotland: all residents of their towns · OGL
Some 1,944 pupils attend Grangemouth’s four primaries and one secondary. Two of its 6 schools are below, each with the reason it’s listed.
| School | Level | Pupils | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beancross Primary SchoolLargest primary schoolPrimary | Primary | 367 | – |
| Grangemouth High SchoolLargest secondary schoolSecondary | Secondary | 830 | C− |
73% of people in Grangemouth rate their own health good or very good. Its share in bad or very bad health, 9%, is the second highest of the 14 towns in Falkirk council area. Disability touches 29% of the town’s population.
| Census 2022 | Grangemouth | Falkirk council area | Scotland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Good or very good health | 73% | 78% | 78% |
| Bad or very bad health | 9% | 7.2% | 7.2% |
| Activities limited (health or disability) | 29% | 25% | 24% |
Scotland’s Census 2022, general health and disability · Public Health Scotland life expectancy by intermediate zone, 2020–24 · OGL · These shares come straight from the census, without allowing for age, and young towns benefit; the Health Grade instead weighs age-adjusted measures, including life expectancy and early deaths.
57% of households own their home. Private renters make up 8% of households, near Falkirk council area’s towns (9%) and lower than Scotland’s towns (13%). Grangemouth is the second cheapest of the 14 towns in the Falkirk council area, at £118,400.
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; 25% of workers were mainly at home, and shares here are of those who travelled.
For every resident in work, Grangemouth has 1.6 jobs. 29% of commuters who live in Grangemouth also work there. The census counted a quarter of workers working mainly from home. Short trips to work, under 5 km: 50%, above both Falkirk council area’s towns (38%) and Scotland’s towns (44%).
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.
At the top of the list, 1 are Category A and 8 Category B. Grangemouth’s listed buildings include Dundas Church Bo'ness Road, Category A. The national list protects one ancient monument locally.
Historic Environment Scotland list, October 2026 · OGL
12 listed buildings in Grangemouth, 1 of them in the top category.
Grangemouth, Station Road, Former La Scala Cinema: Photo: Tom Sargent · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Ronaldsay Crescent Zetland Parish Church (Old Parish Church): Photo: Auldcathy · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Sacred Heart Rc Church Dalratho Road and Drummond Place: Photo: Auldcathy · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Ronaldshay Crescent and Park Road Grange Church and Church Hall: Photo: Marcus-Grangemouth · CC BY-SA 4.0
24 notable people were born in Grangemouth.
Thomas Mitchell: unsigned, Public domain · Elizabeth Fraser: john or juan, CC BY 2.0 · Alexander Winton: E. G. Williams & Bro, Public domain · Tommy Whittle: Jeff Hardcastle England, CC BY 2.0
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grangemouth | 16,028 | — | — | A | — | D− |
| Polmont | 5,044 | 1.5 | — | A− | — | C+ |
| Redding | 3,812 | 1.8 | — | B+ | — | C− |
| Brightons | 4,048 | 2 | — | B+ | — | C+ |
| Maddiston | 3,835 | 2.6 | — | B | — | C− |
| Hallglen | 3,158 | 2.6 | — | A | — | D− |
| Carronshore | 2,880 | 2.7 | — | B+ | — | D |
| Falkirk | 34,637 | 2.9 | — | 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 £118,400, against £277,000 in the typical town in England and Wales. On cost of living it is the 201st most affordable of 296 Scottish towns.
Surface water isn’t included. Check a specific address on GOV.UK’s flood risk service.
At the 2022 Census, 10% of Grangemouth’s 16,028 residents were 15 to 24 and 21% were 65 or over, against 12% and 19% across Scotland’s towns.
Town in Falkirk, Scotland
Grangemouth is a locality of 16,028 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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