MaddistonFalkirk council area
A town of 3,835 in the Falkirk council area, Scotland.
Is Maddiston a good place to live?
Police Scotland doesn’t publish street-level crime, so Maddiston has no Safety Grade and, without it, no overall grade. Its other subjects are graded below. Its strongest subject is hazard risk (A): 0% of homes at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea. Its weakest is health (C−): life expectancy 79.6 for men, 80.4 for women. The median home sold for £223,500 in the last three years, 5 times what households in the Falkirk council area earn in a year.
What makes Maddiston stand out
The 3 things Maddiston does most differently from other towns.
How Maddiston grades
Each subject compared with the 2,160 UK towns with an overall grade (schools within Scotland), ordered by how far Maddiston is from typical. American towns are graded separately.
Police Scotland doesn’t publish street-level crime, so Maddiston has no Safety Grade and, without it, no overall grade. Its other subjects are graded below.
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The data
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Maddiston.
Results at Maddiston’s schools beat 91% of Scottish towns
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maddiston Primary SchoolLargest primary schoolPrimary | Primary | 463 | – |
Fewer people in Maddiston live with a disability than in Falkirk council area’s towns or across Scotland’s towns: 21%
Maddiston sits below both Falkirk council area’s towns (25%) and Scotland’s towns (24%) on this measure. Women here live to 80.4 on average and men to 79.6 (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 | Maddiston | Falkirk council area | Scotland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Good or very good health | 82% | 78% | 78% |
| Bad or very bad health | 6.5% | 7.2% | 7.2% |
| Activities limited (health or disability) | 21% | 25% | 24% |
Scotland’s Census 2022, general health and disability · Public Health Scotland life expectancy by intermediate zone, 2020–24 · OGL
Fewer commuters in Maddiston walk, cycle or take the bus or train than in Falkirk council area’s towns or Scotland’s towns: 12%
Scotland’s Census was taken on 20 March 2022, a year after England and Wales’s lockdown census; 30% of workers were mainly at home, and shares here are of those who travelled.
That puts Maddiston below both Falkirk council area’s towns (17%) and Scotland’s towns (27%). 15% of commuters travelled under 5 km to work.
How commuters got to work · March 2022
Scotland’s Census 2022 (NRS), method of travel and distance to work · DWP claimant count · OGL
Few households rent privately in Maddiston: 5%, fewer than in Falkirk council area’s towns and Scotland’s towns
On this, Maddiston is below both Falkirk council area’s towns (9%) and Scotland’s towns (13%). 68% of households own their home. Maddiston is the second most expensive of the 14 towns in the Falkirk council area, at £223,500.
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.
Maddiston 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
Children make up 23% of Maddiston, above Falkirk council area’s towns and Scotland’s towns
In the comparison, Maddiston comes above both Falkirk council area’s towns (16%) and Scotland’s towns (15%). 12% of residents are 65 or over. The median resident of Maddiston is 36.2 years old.
Ages · share of residents
Qualifications · residents 16 and older
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 91 men for every 100 women. Across Scotland, 51% of residents are women.
| Maddiston | Falkirk council area | Scotland | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 23% | 16% | 15% |
| 15–24 | 12% | 10% | 12% |
| 25–44 | 28% | 25% | 26% |
| 45–64 | 26% | 29% | 27% |
| 65+ | 12% | 19% | 19% |
| No qualifications | 15% | 17% | 17% |
| Apprenticeship | 7.2% | 9.3% | 7.5% |
| Highers or similar | 11% | 11% | 11% |
| Degree level | 28% | 26% | 32% |
Scotland’s Census 2022 · Falkirk council area and Scotland: all residents of their towns · OGL
Callendar House and 6 more in and around Maddiston
Museums, castles, gardens and days out in and near Maddiston. Best known first.
MuseumCallendar House4 km outside town, to the northwest
CastleAlmond Castle1 km outside town, to the eastAttractionAttractionFalkirk Distillery2.3 km outside town, to the northwestAttractionAttractionThe Milk Barn4.6 km outside town, to the westMuseumMuseumFalkirk Museums Workshop and Store4.1 km outside town, to the northAbbey or prioryAbbey or prioryManuel Nunnery2.5 km outside town, to the eastPhotos: each place’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
Photo credits (2)
- Callendar House: John Lord, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Almond Castle: Rob Burke, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
Everything we know about Maddiston
Maddiston’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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maddiston | 3,835 | — | — | B | — | C− |
| Brightons | 4,048 | 1 | — | B+ | — | C+ |
| Polmont | 5,044 | 1.1 | — | A− | — | C+ |
| Redding | 3,812 | 2 | — | B+ | — | C− |
| Grangemouth | 16,028 | 2.6 | — | A | — | D− |
| Hallglen | 3,158 | 3.1 | — | A | — | D− |
| Linlithgow | 12,522 | 3.6 | — | A | — | B− |
| Falkirk | 34,637 | 4.2 | — | 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 Maddiston
Are schools in Maddiston good?
GCSE results beat 91% of towns in England (Department for Education, Attainment 8). One state school is inside the town; places are handled by the local council.
Does Maddiston flood?
Surface water isn’t included. Check a specific address on GOV.UK’s flood risk service.
About Maddiston
Town in Falkirk, Scotland
Maddiston is a locality of 3,835 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
- 3,835 (Census 2022)
- Council
- Falkirk
- Nation
- Scotland
- Area
- 0.4 sq mi (1 km²)
- NRS code
- S52000427
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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