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A town of 9,566 in the Falkirk council area, Scotland.
Police Scotland doesn’t publish street-level crime, so Stenhousemuir 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 83% of Scottish towns. Its weakest is health (C−): life expectancy 77.9 for men, 81.5 for women. The median home sold for £177,400 in the last three years, 4 times what households in the Falkirk council area earn in a year.
The 3 things Stenhousemuir 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 Stenhousemuir is from typical. American towns are graded separately.
Police Scotland doesn’t publish street-level crime, so Stenhousemuir has no Safety Grade and, without it, no overall grade. Its other subjects are graded below.
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Historic Environment Scotland lists 7 buildings inside Stenhousemuir’s locality, 1 of them in the top category.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Stenhousemuir.
26% of residents in Stenhousemuir live with a disability. At the census, 77% of people in Stenhousemuir called their health good or very good, close to both Falkirk council area’s towns (78%) and Scotland’s towns (78%).
| Census 2022 | Stenhousemuir | Falkirk council area | Scotland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Good or very good health | 77% | 78% | 78% |
| Bad or very bad health | 7.4% | 7.2% | 7.2% |
| Activities limited (health or disability) | 26% | 25% | 24% |
Scotland’s Census 2022, general health and disability · Public Health Scotland life expectancy by intermediate zone, 2020–24 · OGL · Census health answers are raw, so younger towns score better on them; for the Health Grade we use age-adjusted figures like life expectancy and early deaths.
Larbert High School’s results beat nearly nine in ten schools in Scotland like it. Of its 3 schools, two are shown below, each with the reason. Stenhousemuir’s two primaries and one secondary have 2,547 pupils between them.
| School | Level | Pupils | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stenhousemuir Primary SchoolLargest primary schoolPrimary | Primary | 303 | – |
| Larbert High SchoolLargest secondary schoolSecondary | Secondary | 2,065 | A |
Owners make up two thirds of households, above both Falkirk council area’s towns (63%) and Scotland’s towns (60%). Behind the median of £177,400: 359 sales in Stenhousemuir’s data zones, 2023 to 2025. Private rents average £930 a month across the Forth Valley council area.
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; 29% of workers were mainly at home, and shares here are of those who travelled.
Just over four in five commuters drove to work at the census. Unemployment benefit claims came to 2.2% of 16 to 64s in 2026, below both Falkirk council area’s towns (2.6%) and Scotland’s towns (2.8%). For 46% of commuters, work was under 5 km away.
Scotland’s Census 2022 (NRS), method of travel and distance to work · DWP claimant count · OGL
Aged 15 to 24: one in ten residents. At 47.4, the median resident of Stenhousemuir sits in the middle of the age range.
53% women, 47% men
About 90 men for every 100 women. Across Scotland, 51% of residents are women.
| Stenhousemuir | Falkirk council area | Scotland | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 15% | 16% | 15% |
| 15–24 | 10% | 10% | 12% |
| 25–44 | 22% | 25% | 26% |
| 45–64 | 31% | 29% | 27% |
| 65+ | 23% | 19% | 19% |
| No qualifications | 17% | 17% | 17% |
| Apprenticeship | 10% | 9.3% | 7.5% |
| Highers or similar | 11% | 11% | 11% |
| Degree level | 24% | 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 Stenhousemuir. Best known first.
CastleAirth Castle3.2 km outside town, to the northeast
MuseumCallendar House3.5 km outside town, to the southeast
CastlePlean Castle3.6 km outside town, to the northwestMuseumMuseum · National Trust for ScotlandThe Dunmore Pineapple4.3 km outside town, to the northAttractionAttractionThe Kelpies2.6 km outside town, to the eastAttractionAttractionFalkirk Wheel2.5 km outside town, to the southwestPhotos: each place’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
7 listed buildings in Stenhousemuir, 1 of them in the top category.
Larbert East Church and Hall King Street, Stenhousemuir: Photo: Drkirstyross · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Stenhousemuir Off Main Street, Carron Grange House: Photo: Drkirstyross · CC BY-SA 4.0
14 notable people were born in Stenhousemuir.
Helen Eadie: Scottish Labour, CC BY-SA 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stenhousemuir | 9,566 | — | — | A− | — | C− |
| Larbert | 12,688 | 0.7 | — | B− | — | C |
| Carronshore | 2,880 | 1.1 | — | B+ | — | D |
| Falkirk | 34,637 | 1.9 | — | A | — | D− |
| Hallglen | 3,158 | 3.2 | — | A | — | D− |
| Bonnybridge | 5,085 | 3.5 | — | A− | — | D |
| Grangemouth | 16,028 | 3.7 | — | A | — | D− |
| Redding | 3,812 | 3.8 | — | B+ | — | C− |
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 83% of towns in England (Department for Education, Attainment 8). Stenhousemuir has 3 state schools; places are handled by the local council.
Homes cost less than in most UK towns: the median sale over three years was £177,400, against £277,000 in the typical town in England and Wales. On cost of living it is the 234th most affordable of 296 Scottish towns.
Surface water isn’t included. Check a specific address on GOV.UK’s flood risk service.
Town in Falkirk, Scotland
Stenhousemuir is a locality of 9,566 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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