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A town of 2,887 in Fife, Scotland. 53 listed buildings, 0 of them in the top category.
Police Scotland doesn’t publish street-level crime, so Kincardine 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 161st most affordable of 296 Scottish towns: median sale £145,500, 3.3 years of area income; rent £868 a month. Its weakest is hazard risk (D): 9.4% of homes at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea.
The 3 things Kincardine 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 Kincardine is from typical. American towns are graded separately.
Police Scotland doesn’t publish street-level crime, so Kincardine has no Safety Grade and, without it, no overall grade. Its other subjects are graded below.
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Historic Environment Scotland lists 53 buildings inside Kincardine’s locality, 30 of them in the second category.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Kincardine.
The social rented sector houses nearly a fifth of households. Owners make up 70% of households, higher than both Fife’s towns (63%) and Scotland’s towns (60%). 151 sales in Kincardine’s data zones from 2023 to 2025 make up the median of £145,500.
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.
Below is its only school. Its one primary school teaches 166 pupils.
| School | Level | Pupils | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tulliallan Primary SchoolLargest primary schoolPrimary | Primary | 166 | – |
At the census, 27% of people here had a disability, above Fife’s towns (26%) and Scotland’s towns (24%) alike. 76% of people in Kincardine rate their own health good or very good. Poor health, by residents’ own account, affects 7% of the town.
| Census 2022 | Kincardine | Fife | Scotland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Good or very good health | 76% | 77% | 78% |
| Bad or very bad health | 7% | 7.2% | 7.2% |
| Activities limited (health or disability) | 27% | 26% | 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.
Scotland’s Census was taken on 20 March 2022, a year after England and Wales’s lockdown census; 27% of workers were mainly at home, and shares here are of those who travelled.
Just over one in ten commuters who live in Kincardine also work there. At the census, 17% of commuters got to work without a car. Working mainly from home: 27% of workers, below Fife’s towns (30%) and Scotland’s towns (31%) alike. In 2026, 2.4% of 16 to 64s were claiming unemployment benefits.
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.
Category B covers 30 of them. Per 10,000 residents, Kincardine counts 184 listed buildings. The town counts 53 listed buildings on the national list (Historic Environment Scotland): 30 Category B.
Historic Environment Scotland list, October 2026 · OGL
People 65 and over make up 27% of the town. 13% are under 15, below both Fife’s towns (16%) and Scotland’s towns (15%). At 52.2, the median resident of Kincardine sits in the middle of the age range. Degrees are held by nearly a quarter of adults.
52% women, 48% men
About 93 men for every 100 women. Across Scotland, 51% of residents are women. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
| Kincardine | Fife | Scotland | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 13% | 16% | 15% |
| 15–24 | 7.8% | 13% | 12% |
| 25–44 | 21% | 24% | 26% |
| 45–64 | 33% | 27% | 27% |
| 65+ | 27% | 20% | 19% |
| No qualifications | 19% | 17% | 17% |
| Apprenticeship | 11% | 8.2% | 7.5% |
| Highers or similar | 9.3% | 12% | 11% |
| Degree level | 23% | 27% | 32% |
Scotland’s Census 2022 · Fife and Scotland: all residents of their towns · OGL
Museums, castles, gardens and days out in and near Kincardine. Best known first.
CastleAirth Castle2.8 km outside town, to the west
CastleClackmannan Tower4 km outside town, to the northwest
CastleOld Tulliallan Castle100 m outside town, to the northwest
Museum · National Trust for ScotlandCulross Palace4.7 km outside town, to the eastMuseumMuseum · National Trust for ScotlandThe Dunmore Pineapple3.9 km outside town, to the westZooZooHillview Animal Park4.3 km outside town, to the northeastPhotos: each place’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
53 listed buildings in Kincardine.
Commercial Hotel, 2 Elphinstone Street Kincardine-on-Forth: Photo: Drkirstyross · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Kincardine Rc Chapel 6 Coopers Lane Kincardine-on-Forth: Photo: Drkirstyross · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Tulliallan Old Parish Church: Photo: Drkirstyross · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 2-20 Hawkhill Road Inclusive (All Even Numbers) Kincardine-on-Forth: Photo: Drkirstyross · CC BY-SA 3.0
11 notable people were born in Kincardine.
Sir James Wylie: Formerly attributed to Mihály Zichy, Public domain · James Cochrane: AnonymousUnknown author, Public domain · David Fife: Ic3b3rg, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kincardine | 2,887 | — | — | A | — | D |
| Clackmannan | 3,282 | 2.9 | — | A− | — | D− |
| Carronshore | 2,880 | 3.8 | — | B+ | — | D |
| Grangemouth | 16,028 | 4.3 | — | A | — | D− |
| Alloa | 14,689 | 4.5 | — | A− | — | D |
| Stenhousemuir | 9,566 | 4.6 | — | A− | — | C− |
| Sauchie | 6,357 | 4.7 | — | A− | — | D− |
| Larbert | 12,688 | 5.1 | — | 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.
That is 7.5 times the typical town in England and Wales for its size.
Surface water isn’t included. Check a specific address on GOV.UK’s flood risk service.
GCSE results trail 92% of towns in England (Department for Education, Attainment 8). One state school is inside the town; places are handled by the local council.
Homes cost less than in most UK towns: the median sale over three years was £145,500, against £277,000 in the typical town in England and Wales. On cost of living it is the 161st most affordable of 296 Scottish towns.
Town in Fife, Scotland
Kincardine is a locality of 2,887 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
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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