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A town of 4,554 in Moray, Scotland.
Police Scotland doesn’t publish street-level crime, so Keith 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 144th most affordable of 296 Scottish towns: median sale £138,300, 3.1 years of area income; rent £816 a month. Its weakest is schools (D−): school leavers’ results beat 4% of Scottish towns.
The 3 things Keith 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 Keith is from typical. American towns are graded separately.
Police Scotland doesn’t publish street-level crime, so Keith has no Safety Grade and, without it, no overall grade. Its other subjects are graded below.
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Historic Environment Scotland lists 58 buildings inside Keith’s locality, 4 of them in the top category, and 1 scheduled monument.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Keith.
11% of residents are aged 15 to 24. People 65 and over make up 26% of the town, above both Moray’s towns (22%) and Scotland’s towns (19%). Under 15: 14% of residents. Keith has a median age of 48.3.
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.
| Keith | Moray | Scotland | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 14% | 16% | 15% |
| 15–24 | 11% | 9.8% | 12% |
| 25–44 | 21% | 25% | 26% |
| 45–64 | 28% | 27% | 27% |
| 65+ | 26% | 22% | 19% |
| No qualifications | 26% | 18% | 17% |
| Apprenticeship | 11% | 10% | 7.5% |
| Highers or similar | 11% | 11% | 11% |
| Degree level | 18% | 24% | 32% |
Scotland’s Census 2022 · Moray and Scotland: all residents of their towns · OGL
Between them, two primaries and one secondary teach 718 pupils in Keith. Two of its 3 schools are below, each with the reason it’s listed.
| School | Level | Pupils | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Keith Primary SchoolLargest primary schoolPrimary | Primary | 332 | – |
| Keith Grammar SchoolLargest secondary schoolSecondary | Secondary | 348 | D |
Private renters make up one in ten households, below both Moray’s towns (13%) and Scotland’s towns (13%). Keith is the cheapest of the 5 towns in Moray: its median sale is £138,300. 26% of households live in social housing.
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.
Scotland’s Census was taken on 20 March 2022, a year after England and Wales’s lockdown census; 21% of workers were mainly at home, and shares here are of those who travelled.
For every resident in work, Keith has 0.9 jobs. Of the commuters living here, 35% work in the town itself. At the census, 21% of workers worked mainly from home. Short trips to work, under 5 km: 42%, below Moray’s towns (53%) and close to Scotland’s towns (44%).
Scotland’s Census 2022 (NRS), method of travel and distance to work · DWP claimant count · OGL
Of the 5 towns in Moray, Keith has the largest share in bad or very bad health: 6.3%. 26% of residents have a disability, above Moray’s towns (23%) and Scotland’s towns (24%) alike. Asked at the census, 78% of residents of Keith said they were in good or very good health.
| Census 2022 | Keith | Moray | Scotland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Good or very good health | 78% | 80% | 78% |
| Bad or very bad health | 6.3% | 5.9% | 7.2% |
| Activities limited (health or disability) | 26% | 23% | 24% |
Scotland’s Census 2022, general health and disability · Public Health Scotland life expectancy by intermediate zone, 2020–24 · OGL · Census health answers are raw, so younger towns score better on them; for the Health Grade we use age-adjusted figures like 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.
Category B covers 30 of them, Category A 4. Keith has 58 listed buildings on Historic Environment Scotland’s list: 4 Category A, 30 Category B. It has one scheduled monument.
Historic Environment Scotland list, October 2026 · OGL
58 listed buildings in Keith, 4 of them in the top category.
Chapel Street, Roman Catholic Church of St Thomas and Presbytery: Photo: Lucas Kendall · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Old Keith, Bridge over River Isla: Photo: Lucas Kendall · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Mid Street, North Church of Scotland: Photo: Lucas Kendall · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 36 Regent Street and 4, 5 Regent Square, Grampian Hotel (Formerly Gordon Arms Hotel): Photo: Lucas Kendall · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Geograph
12 notable people were born in Keith.
Colin Hendry: Nick from Bristol, UK, CC BY 2.0 · James Gordon Bennett Sr.: Mathew Brady's studio, Public domain · John Strachan: unknown (Life time: photo of the person who died in 1907), Public domain · Irvine Laidlaw, Baron Laidlaw: Mogens Engelund, CC BY-SA 3.0 · George Sellar: Knight, Newport (no individual credited), Public domain · John Ripley: Looch2009, CC BY-SA 4.0
The nearest towns and villages, from National Records of Scotland’s 2022 localities. See them on the map →
Keith has 3 state schools; places are handled by the local council.
That is 5.2 times the typical town in England and Wales for its size. Its Category A buildings include Chapel Street, Roman Catholic Church of St Thomas and Presbytery. It also has 1 scheduled monument.
Homes cost less than in most UK towns: the median sale over three years was £138,300, against £277,000 in the typical town in England and Wales. On cost of living it is the 144th most affordable of 296 Scottish towns.
Town in Moray, Scotland
Keith is a locality of 4,554 people, in the Moray 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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