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A town of 3,967 in Fife, Scotland. 39 listed buildings, 0 of them in the top category.
Police Scotland doesn’t publish street-level crime, so Tayport 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 182nd most affordable of 296 Scottish towns: median sale £174,800, 4 years of area income; rent £868 a month. Its weakest is health (C−): life expectancy 77.5 for men, 84 for women.
The 3 things Tayport 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 Tayport is from typical. American towns are graded separately.
Police Scotland doesn’t publish street-level crime, so Tayport has no Safety Grade and, without it, no overall grade. Its other subjects are graded below.
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Historic Environment Scotland lists 39 buildings inside Tayport’s locality, 13 of them in the second category, and 1 scheduled monument.
Explore the history →Museums, castles, gardens and days out in and near Tayport. Best known first.
Castle · Historic Environment ScotlandBroughty Castle1.4 km outside town, to the north
Castle · Historic Environment ScotlandClaypotts Castle2.6 km outside town, to the north
CathedralSt Andrew's Cathedral, Dundee4.6 km outside town, to the west
CathedralSt Paul's Cathedral, Dundee4.2 km outside town, to the west
MuseumV&A Dundee4.1 km outside town, to the westPhotos: each place’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Tayport.
Households that own their home make up 67%. 20% live in social housing, lower than both Fife’s towns (24%) and Scotland’s towns (24%). The median, £174,800, rests on 187 sales in Tayport’s data zones from 2023 to 2025.
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.
Its only school is listed below. 211 pupils attend Tayport’s one primary school.
| School | Level | Pupils | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tayport Primary SchoolLargest primary schoolPrimary | Primary | 211 | – |
Men in Tayport can expect to live to 77.5, women to 84 (2020–24). A disability affects 26% of people here.
| Census 2022 | Tayport | Fife | Scotland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Good or very good health | 78% | 77% | 78% |
| Bad or very bad health | 6.7% | 7.2% | 7.2% |
| Activities limited (health or disability) | 26% | 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; 26% of workers were mainly at home, and shares here are of those who travelled.
Working from home was the norm for just over a quarter of workers at the census. A fifth of commuters walked, cycled or took the bus or train at the census, close to Fife’s towns (20%) and below Scotland’s towns (27%). The car carried 77% of commuters at the census. Work in town: 6% of resident commuters.
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 13 of them. Historic Environment Scotland’s list names 39 listed buildings in Tayport: 13 Category B. One scheduled monument lies here.
Historic Environment Scotland list, October 2026 · OGL
Graduates make up 38% of adults. People 65 and over make up 21% of the town, about level with Fife’s towns (20%) and above Scotland’s towns (19%). The middle age in Tayport is 48.
52% women, 48% men
About 91 men for every 100 women. Across Scotland, 51% of residents are women.
| Tayport | Fife | Scotland | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 16% | 16% | 15% |
| 15–24 | 9.5% | 13% | 12% |
| 25–44 | 22% | 24% | 26% |
| 45–64 | 32% | 27% | 27% |
| 65+ | 21% | 20% | 19% |
| No qualifications | 12% | 17% | 17% |
| Apprenticeship | 8.2% | 8.2% | 7.5% |
| Highers or similar | 11% | 12% | 11% |
| Degree level | 38% | 27% | 32% |
Scotland’s Census 2022 · Fife and Scotland: all residents of their towns · OGL
39 listed buildings in Tayport.
Parish Kirk of Ferryport-on-Craig Castle Street: Photo: 716131dia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Queen Street, Tayport Primary School Including Railings and Boundary Walls: Photo: 716131dia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 1 Whitenhill 'the Auld Hoose Bar' and Adjoining House, 3 Whitenhill: Photo: 716131dia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 3, 7, 9 Rose Street: Photo: 716131dia · CC BY-SA 3.0
4 notable people were born in Tayport.
Agnes Husband: w:Alec Grieve, Public domain · Nicolas Vilant: Nicolas Vilant (1737-1807), 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tayport | 3,967 | — | — | A | — | C− |
| Newport-on-Tay and Wormit | 4,119 | 2.8 | — | B | — | B |
| Monifieth | 9,356 | 3.4 | — | B+ | — | C+ |
| Dundee | 147,365 | 3.7 | — | B+ | — | D− |
| Carnoustie | 11,373 | 7.3 | — | A | — | C |
| St Andrews | 16,465 | 8.2 | — | C | — | C+ |
| Cupar | 8,835 | 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.
That is 4 times the typical town in England and Wales for its size. It also has 1 scheduled monument.
Band D council tax in Tayport 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.
GCSE results beat 85% 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 £174,800, against £277,000 in the typical town in England and Wales. On cost of living it is the 182nd most affordable of 296 Scottish towns.
Town in Fife, Scotland
Tayport is a locality of 3,967 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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