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A town of 2,944 in Fife, Scotland.
Police Scotland doesn’t publish street-level crime, so Kinghorn 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 181st most affordable of 296 Scottish towns: median sale £174,000, 3.9 years of area income; rent £868 a month. Its weakest is health (C): life expectancy 75.5 for men, 83.6 for women.
The 3 things Kinghorn 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 Kinghorn is from typical. American towns are graded separately.
Police Scotland doesn’t publish street-level crime, so Kinghorn has no Safety Grade and, without it, no overall grade. Its other subjects are graded below.
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Historic Environment Scotland lists 57 buildings inside Kinghorn’s locality, 1 of them in the top category, and 2 scheduled monuments.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Kinghorn.
Owners make up 75% of households, above Fife’s towns (63%) and Scotland’s towns (60%) alike. The social rented sector houses 14% of households. 172 sales in Kinghorn’s data zones from 2023 to 2025 make up the median of £174,000.
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 one school in town appears below. 187 pupils attend Kinghorn’s one primary school.
| School | Level | Pupils | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kinghorn Primary SchoolLargest primary schoolPrimary | Primary | 187 | – |
Scotland’s Census was taken on 20 March 2022, a year after England and Wales’s lockdown census; 32% of workers were mainly at home, and shares here are of those who travelled.
Unemployment benefit claims reached 2.9% of 16 to 64s in 2026. The car took 77% of commuters, near Fife’s towns (78%) and higher than Scotland’s towns (70%). Work in town: 7% of resident commuters. Kinghorn counts 0.3 jobs per working resident.
Scotland’s Census 2022 (NRS), method of travel and distance to work · DWP claimant count · OGL
At the census, 6.2% of people here described their health as bad or very bad. Asked at the census, four in five residents of Kinghorn said they were in good or very good health. 24% of residents in Kinghorn live with a disability.
| Census 2022 | Kinghorn | Fife | Scotland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Good or very good health | 80% | 77% | 78% |
| Bad or very bad health | 6.2% | 7.2% | 7.2% |
| Activities limited (health or disability) | 24% | 26% | 24% |
Scotland’s Census 2022, general health and disability · Public Health Scotland life expectancy by intermediate zone, 2020–24 · OGL · A young population flatters these answers, which are not age-adjusted; the Health Grade instead uses measures that allow for age, such as life expectancy and early deaths.
The heritage lists give each building’s grade but not its age, so we don’t say which is oldest.
Kinghorn’s listed buildings include Bruce Terrace, Bowbutts House with Ancillary Building, Category A. Of the town’s 57 listed buildings on Historic Environment Scotland’s list, Category A counts 1 and Category B 23. Conservation areas cover 6% of the town’s land, above both Fife’s towns (0%) and Scotland’s towns (1%).
Historic Environment Scotland list, October 2026 · OGL
The share of residents under 15 is 13%. 28% of residents are 65 or over, above both Fife’s towns (20%) and Scotland’s towns (19%). Half the people of Kinghorn are older than 51.7. Graduates make up 37% of adults.
53% women, 47% men
About 90 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.
| Kinghorn | Fife | Scotland | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 13% | 16% | 15% |
| 15–24 | 7.9% | 13% | 12% |
| 25–44 | 20% | 24% | 26% |
| 45–64 | 31% | 27% | 27% |
| 65+ | 28% | 20% | 19% |
| No qualifications | 13% | 17% | 17% |
| Apprenticeship | 8.2% | 8.2% | 7.5% |
| Highers or similar | 9.4% | 12% | 11% |
| Degree level | 37% | 27% | 32% |
Scotland’s Census 2022 · Fife and Scotland: all residents of their towns · OGL
Museums, castles, gardens and days out in and near Kinghorn. Best known first.
CastleRossend Castle2.5 km outside town, to the westMuseumMuseumKirkcaldy Museum and Art Gallery4 km outside town, to the northAttractionAttractionThe Ecology Centre200 m outside town, to the northwestMuseumMuseumMuseum of Communication2.1 km outside town, to the westMuseumMuseumBurntisland Heritage Exhibition2.1 km outside town, to the westMuseumMuseumAdam Smith Heritage Centre4 km outside town, to the northPhotos: each place’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
57 listed buildings in Kinghorn, 1 of them in the top category.
Nethergate, Kinghorn Parish Church of St Leonard (Church of Scotland): Photo: Paul McIlroy · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Inchkeith Island and fortifications: Photo: Stewart Glasson · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Kinghorn Road, Alexander III Monument: Photo: Richard Sutcliffe · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Geograph · Harbour Road, Railway Footbridge: Photo: Paul McIlroy · 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kinghorn | 2,944 | — | — | A | — | C |
| Burntisland | 6,259 | 2.3 | — | A | — | D |
| Kirkcaldy and Dysart | 51,135 | 3.7 | — | A | — | D |
| Cardenden and Auchterderran | 5,266 | 6 | — | A | — | D− |
| Lochgelly | 7,157 | 6.5 | — | A | — | D− |
| Dalgety Bay and Hillend | 9,452 | 7.4 | — | A− | — | B+ |
| Cowdenbeath and Lumphinnans | 11,979 | 7.4 | — | A | — | D− |
| Crossgates | 2,993 | 7.6 | — | A | — | 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 7.9 times the typical town in England and Wales for its size. Its Category A building is Bruce Terrace, Bowbutts House with Ancillary Building. It also has 2 scheduled monuments.
Band D council tax in Kinghorn 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.
Homes cost less than in most UK towns: the median sale over three years was £174,000, against £277,000 in the typical town in England and Wales. On cost of living it is the 181st most affordable of 296 Scottish towns.
Town in Fife, Scotland
Kinghorn is a locality of 2,944 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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