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37 buildings are listed here, 0 at Category A. A town in Fife, Scotland, home to 4,119 people.
People here tend to be in good health: men here can expect to live to 83.9, women to 84. Homes sell for a median £263,500, about 6 years of what households in the Fife council area earn. Where it falls short is schools: school leavers’ results beat 34% of Scottish towns. Its remaining grades are unremarkable: B for walkability and B− for hazard risk.
Figures: life expectancy and incomes, ONS · prices, HM Land Registry, the last three years · commuting, Census 2022 · flood risk, SEPA. Police Scotland doesn’t publish street-level crime, so Newport-on-Tay and Wormit has no Safety Grade and, without it, no overall grade. Its other subjects are graded below.
The 3 things Newport-on-Tay and Wormit 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 Newport-on-Tay and Wormit is from typical. American towns are graded separately.
Police Scotland doesn’t publish street-level crime, so Newport-on-Tay and Wormit has no Safety Grade and, without it, no overall grade. Its other subjects are graded below.
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Historic Environment Scotland lists 37 buildings inside Newport-on-Tay and Wormit’s locality, 22 of them in the second category.
Explore the history →Museums, castles, gardens and days out in and near Newport-on-Tay and Wormit. Best known first.
CathedralSt Andrew's Cathedral, Dundee2.6 km outside town, to the northwest
CathedralSt Paul's Cathedral, Dundee2.5 km outside town, to the north
MuseumV&A Dundee2.2 km outside town, to the north
Castle · Historic Environment ScotlandBroughty Castle4.3 km outside town, to the northeast
Castle · Historic Environment ScotlandClaypotts Castle4.2 km outside town, to the northeastPhotos: each place’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Newport-on-Tay and Wormit.
Typical age in Newport-on-Tay and Wormit: 50.7, the median. People 65 and over make up 28% of the town, higher than both Fife’s towns (20%) and Scotland’s towns (19%). Among adults, 57% have a degree.
52% women, 48% men
About 92 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.
| Newport-on-Tay and Wormit | Fife | Scotland | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 15% | 16% | 15% |
| 15–24 | 7% | 13% | 12% |
| 25–44 | 21% | 24% | 26% |
| 45–64 | 29% | 27% | 27% |
| 65+ | 28% | 20% | 19% |
| No qualifications | 8% | 17% | 17% |
| Apprenticeship | 5.3% | 8.2% | 7.5% |
| Highers or similar | 9% | 12% | 11% |
| Degree level | 57% | 27% | 32% |
Scotland’s Census 2022 · Fife and Scotland: all residents of their towns · OGL
Below is its only school. The town’s primary school has 190 pupils. Its one school is below.
| School | Level | Pupils | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wormit Primary SchoolLargest primary schoolPrimary | Primary | 190 | – |
Scotland’s Census was taken on 20 March 2022, a year after England and Wales’s lockdown census; 33% of workers were mainly at home, and shares here are of those who travelled.
33% of workers worked mainly from home, higher than both Fife’s towns (30%) and Scotland’s towns (31%). There are 0.3 jobs in Newport-on-Tay and Wormit for each resident in work. Of the commuters living in the town, 6% work in the town itself.
Scotland’s Census 2022 (NRS), method of travel and distance to work · DWP claimant count · OGL
At the census, 4.8% of residents said their health was bad or very bad, below both Fife’s towns (7.2%) and Scotland’s towns (7.2%). Just over a fifth of residents in Newport-on-Tay and Wormit live with a disability. Men in Newport-on-Tay and Wormit can expect to live to 83.9, women to 84 (2020–24).
| Census 2022 | Newport-on-Tay and Wormit | Fife | Scotland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Good or very good health | 83% | 77% | 78% |
| Bad or very bad health | 4.8% | 7.2% | 7.2% |
| Activities limited (health or disability) | 22% | 26% | 24% |
Scotland’s Census 2022, general health and disability · Public Health Scotland life expectancy by intermediate zone, 2020–24 · OGL · No age adjustment applies to these census answers, which flatter younger towns; the Health Grade’s measures, life expectancy and early deaths among them, do allow for age.
The heritage lists give each building’s grade but not its age, so we don’t say which is oldest.
Newport-on-Tay and Wormit has 90 listed buildings for every 10,000 residents. Historic Environment Scotland’s list names 37 listed buildings here: 22 Category B.
Historic Environment Scotland list, October 2026 · OGL
7% rent privately, lower than both Fife’s towns (12%) and Scotland’s towns (13%). Social renters account for 9% of households. Newport-on-Tay and Wormit is the second most expensive of the 26 towns in Fife, at £263,500.
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.
37 listed buildings in Newport-on-Tay and Wormit.
Trinity Uf Church: Photo: FHL2 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Tay Street, Canopied Drinking Fountain Including Railings and Stone Piers: Photo: James Allan · CC BY-SA 2.0 · 23 Naughton Road Wormit: Photo: Stanley Howe · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Geograph · St. Marys Episcopal Church, High Street and Blyth Hall Street: Photo: Scott Cormie · CC BY-SA 2.0
11 notable people were born in Newport-on-Tay and Wormit.
Richard Gadd: Soccer Aid for UNICEF, CC BY 3.0 · Valentine Fleming: Unknown. The Illustrated London News provided a list of photographic studios as credit for the photographs used in this feature, but have not identified which specific photographic studio should be c…, Public domain · Stephen Gilbert: Evelyn Marc, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Horse McDonald: Raimond Spekking, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Frederick Claud Sturrock: 'n Eeu van Vervoer (C. 1945), Public domain · John Sturrock: Bassano Ltd, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Newport-on-Tay and Wormit | 4,119 | — | — | B | — | B |
| Tayport | 3,967 | 2.8 | — | A | — | C− |
| Dundee | 147,365 | 2.9 | — | B+ | — | D− |
| Monifieth | 9,356 | 5.9 | — | B+ | — | C+ |
| Cupar | 8,835 | 8.4 | — | A | — | C− |
| St Andrews | 16,465 | 8.9 | — | C | — | C+ |
| Carnoustie | 11,373 | 10 | — | 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.
At the 2022 Census, 7% of Newport-on-Tay and Wormit’s 4,119 residents were 15 to 24 and 28% were 65 or over, against 12% and 19% across Scotland’s towns.
That is 3.7 times the typical town in England and Wales for its size.
Band D council tax in Newport-on-Tay and Wormit 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.
One state school is inside the town; places are handled by the local council.
Town in Fife, Scotland
Newport-on-Tay and Wormit is a locality of 4,119 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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