Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
The town has 7,061 residents and lies in North Lanarkshire, Scotland.
Chapelhall’s strongest subject is cost of living — a typical home costs £143,900 and rent runs £779 a month. Few people walk, cycle or take the bus to work: 8% of commuters get to work on foot, by bike or by public transport. It lags on health as well: life expectancy 80.1 for men, 80.1 for women. Band D council tax is £1,555.
Figures: prices, HM Land Registry, the last three years · commuting, Census 2022 · life expectancy, ONS. Without street-level crime figures from Police Scotland, Chapelhall has no Safety Grade, and so no overall grade. Every other subject still has a grade below.
The 3 things Chapelhall 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 Chapelhall is from typical. American towns are graded separately.
Without street-level crime figures from Police Scotland, Chapelhall has no Safety Grade, and so no overall grade. Every other subject still has a grade below.
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Historic Environment Scotland lists 2 buildings inside Chapelhall’s locality, 1 of them in the second category.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Chapelhall.
17% live in social housing, lower than both North Lanarkshire’s towns (28%) and Scotland’s towns (24%). The owner-occupied share of households is 74%. Also worth knowing: 285 sales in Chapelhall’s data zones from 2023 to 2025 make up the median of £143,900.
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 one of its 2 schools, and why it was picked. Between them, two primaries teach 554 pupils in Chapelhall.
| School | Level | Pupils | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chapelhall Primary SchoolLargest primary schoolPrimary | Primary | 310 | – |
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 came to 1.8% of 16 to 64s in 2026, below both North Lanarkshire’s towns (2.8%) and Scotland’s towns (2.8%). For 28% of commuters, work was under 5 km away. 3% of commuters who live in Chapelhall also work there.
Scotland’s Census 2022 (NRS), method of travel and distance to work · DWP claimant count · OGL
At the census, just over a fifth of people here had a disability, below North Lanarkshire’s towns (26%) and Scotland’s towns (24%) alike. Poor health, by residents’ own account, affects 6.8% of the town.
| Census 2022 | Chapelhall | North Lanarkshire | Scotland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Good or very good health | 80% | 75% | 78% |
| Bad or very bad health | 6.8% | 9% | 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 · Self-reported health favours young towns, since these answers ignore age; the Health Grade leans on age-adjusted measures 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.
Chapelhall has 2 listed buildings on Historic Environment Scotland’s list: 1 Category B. Per 10,000 residents, Chapelhall counts 3 listed buildings, lower than both North Lanarkshire’s towns (3) and Scotland’s towns (22).
Historic Environment Scotland list, October 2026 · OGL
Nearly a quarter of adults hold a degree. People 65 and over make up 14% of the town, below both North Lanarkshire’s towns (18%) and Scotland’s towns (19%). Chapelhall has a median age of 39.9 years.
52% women, 48% men
About 93 men for every 100 women. Across Scotland, 51% of residents are women.
| Chapelhall | North Lanarkshire | Scotland | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 19% | 16% | 15% |
| 15–24 | 13% | 12% | 12% |
| 25–44 | 27% | 25% | 26% |
| 45–64 | 29% | 29% | 27% |
| 65+ | 14% | 18% | 19% |
| No qualifications | 18% | 21% | 17% |
| Apprenticeship | 7.7% | 8.4% | 7.5% |
| Highers or similar | 13% | 11% | 11% |
| Degree level | 23% | 23% | 32% |
Scotland’s Census 2022 · North Lanarkshire and Scotland: all residents of their towns · OGL
Museums, castles, gardens and days out in and near Chapelhall. Best known first.
8 notable people were born in Chapelhall.
Robert Montgomery: John Lord from Edinburgh, Scotland, CC BY 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chapelhall | 7,061 | — | — | A+ | — | C− |
| Holytown | 5,121 | 1.6 | — | A+ | — | D |
| Newarthill | 6,956 | 1.8 | — | A | — | D− |
| Airdrie | 35,847 | 2.1 | — | A+ | — | D− |
| New Stevenston | 6,298 | 2.2 | — | A+ | — | D− |
| Carfin | 4,427 | 2.5 | — | A | — | D |
| Cleland | 3,043 | 2.9 | — | A+ | — | D− |
| Plains | 3,122 | 3 | — | A+ | — | D− |
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.
Homes cost less than in most UK towns: the median sale over three years was £143,900, against £277,000 in the typical town in England and Wales. On cost of living it is the 70th most affordable of 296 Scottish towns.
Band D council tax in Chapelhall is £1,555 for 2026–27, less than in 98% of UK towns (council, county, police and fire). Your own bill depends on your home’s band; check it on GOV.UK.
Surface water isn’t included. Check a specific address on GOV.UK’s flood risk service.
Town in North Lanarkshire, Scotland
Chapelhall is a locality of 7,061 people, in the North Lanarkshire 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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