CrossgatesFife
A town of 2,993 in Fife, Scotland.
Is Crossgates a good place to live?
Police Scotland doesn’t publish street-level crime, so Crossgates 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 walkability (C−): 10% of commuters walk, cycle or take public transport. The median home sold for £179,500 in the last three years, 4.1 times what households in the Fife council area earn in a year.
What makes Crossgates stand out
The 3 things Crossgates does most differently from other towns.
How Crossgates grades
Each subject compared with the 2,160 UK towns with an overall grade (schools within Scotland), ordered by how far Crossgates is from typical. American towns are graded separately.
Police Scotland doesn’t publish street-level crime, so Crossgates has no Safety Grade and, without it, no overall grade. Its other subjects are graded below.
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Dunfermline Palace & Abbey (ruins) and 7 more in and around Crossgates
Museums, castles, gardens and days out in and near Crossgates. Best known first.
Castle · Historic Environment ScotlandDunfermline Palace & Abbey (ruins)4.7 km outside town, to the west
Abbey or prioryDunfermline Abbey4.7 km outside town, to the west
CastleFordell Castle2.9 km outside town, to the south
CastleCouston Castle3.9 km outside town, to the southeast
MuseumAbbot House, Dunfermline4.6 km outside town, to the westArt galleryArt galleryDunfermline Carnegie Library & Galleries4.6 km outside town, to the westPhotos: each place’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
Photo credits (5)
- Dunfermline Palace & Abbey (ruins): Chiswick Chap, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Dunfermline Abbey: Paul McIlroy, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Fordell Castle: kim traynor, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Couston Castle: M J Richardson, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Abbot House, Dunfermline: Kim Traynor, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
The data
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Crossgates.
Crossgates is a town of owners: 79% of households own their home, above Fife’s towns and Scotland’s towns
In the comparison, Crossgates comes above both Fife’s towns (63%) and Scotland’s towns (60%). 8% of households rent privately.
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
Results at Crossgates’s schools trail 68% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Crossgates Primary SchoolLargest primary schoolPrimary | Primary | 234 | – |
More commuters in Crossgates drive than in Fife’s towns or Scotland’s towns: 89%
Scotland’s Census was taken on 20 March 2022, a year after England and Wales’s lockdown census; 31% of workers were mainly at home, and shares here are of those who travelled.
For Crossgates, that is above both Fife’s towns (78%) and Scotland’s towns (70%). 23% 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
Just 5.1% of people in Crossgates say their health is bad or very bad, fewer than in Fife’s towns and Scotland’s towns
Crossgates sits below both Fife’s towns (7.2%) and Scotland’s towns (7.2%) on this measure. Women here live to 81.2 on average and men to 78 (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 | Crossgates | Fife | Scotland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Good or very good health | 81% | 77% | 78% |
| Bad or very bad health | 5.1% | 7.2% | 7.2% |
| Activities limited (health or disability) | 21% | 26% | 24% |
Scotland’s Census 2022, general health and disability · Public Health Scotland life expectancy by intermediate zone, 2020–24 · 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.
Crossgates 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
Few people in Crossgates are 15 to 24: 10%, fewer than in Fife’s towns and Scotland’s towns
That puts Crossgates below both Fife’s towns (13%) and Scotland’s towns (12%). Half the people of Crossgates are older than 45.
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.
| Crossgates | Fife | Scotland | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 15% | 16% | 15% |
| 15–24 | 10% | 13% | 12% |
| 25–44 | 25% | 24% | 26% |
| 45–64 | 30% | 27% | 27% |
| 65+ | 20% | 20% | 19% |
| No qualifications | 14% | 17% | 17% |
| Apprenticeship | 10% | 8.2% | 7.5% |
| Highers or similar | 11% | 12% | 11% |
| Degree level | 28% | 27% | 32% |
Scotland’s Census 2022 · Fife and Scotland: all residents of their towns · OGL
Everything we know about Crossgates
Crossgates’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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crossgates | 2,993 | — | — | A | — | C− |
| Cowdenbeath and Lumphinnans | 11,979 | 1.9 | — | A | — | D− |
| Dunfermline | 56,053 | 2.6 | — | A | — | C− |
| Dalgety Bay and Hillend | 9,452 | 3.4 | — | A− | — | B+ |
| Kelty | 6,898 | 3.6 | — | A | — | D |
| Inverkeithing | 5,273 | 3.7 | — | A | — | D |
| Lochgelly | 7,157 | 3.8 | — | A | — | D− |
| Rosyth | 13,309 | 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 Crossgates
How much is council tax in Crossgates?
Band D council tax in Crossgates is £1,574 for 2026–27, less than in 97% of UK towns (council, county, police and fire). Your own bill depends on your home’s band; check it on GOV.UK.
Is Crossgates expensive to live in?
Homes cost less than in most UK towns: the median sale over three years was £179,500, against £277,000 in the typical town in England and Wales. On cost of living it is the 186th most affordable of 296 Scottish towns.
Are schools in Crossgates good?
One state school is inside the town; places are handled by the local council.
About Crossgates
Town in Fife, Scotland
Crossgates is a locality of 2,993 people, in the Fife 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
- 2,993 (Census 2022)
- Council
- Fife
- Nation
- Scotland
- Area
- 0.4 sq mi (1 km²)
- NRS code
- S52000170
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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