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Council tax at Band D comes to £1,555. With 3,257 residents, it is a town in North Lanarkshire, Scotland.
Floods and other hazards weigh less here (A). It is strong on schools as well (B+): school leavers’ results beat 71% of Scottish towns. The median home sold for £337,200, 7.7 times what households in the North Lanarkshire council area earn in a year. Health is a weak point: life expectancy is 79.5 for men and 82.9 for women.
Figures: flood risk, SEPA · life expectancy and incomes, ONS · prices, HM Land Registry, the last three years. Without street-level crime figures from Police Scotland, Chryston has no Safety Grade, and so no overall grade. The other subjects are graded below.
The 2 things Chryston 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 Chryston is from typical. American towns are graded separately.
Without street-level crime figures from Police Scotland, Chryston has no Safety Grade, and so no overall grade. The other subjects are graded below.
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Historic Environment Scotland lists 1 building inside Chryston’s locality.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Chryston.
Women here live to 82.9 on average and men to 79.5 (2020–24). At the census, 25% of people here had a disability, about level with Scotland’s towns (24%) and below North Lanarkshire’s towns (26%).
| Census 2022 | Chryston | North Lanarkshire | Scotland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Good or very good health | 79% | 75% | 78% |
| Bad or very bad health | 7.9% | 9% | 7.2% |
| Activities limited (health or disability) | 25% | 26% | 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.
Between them, one primary and one secondary teach 1,475 pupils in Chryston. Both of the town’s schools appear below. Its two schools are below.
| School | Level | Pupils | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chryston Primary SchoolLargest primary schoolPrimary | Primary | 434 | – |
| Chryston High SchoolLargest secondary schoolSecondary | Secondary | 1,041 | B+ |
75% of households own their home. Chryston is the most expensive of the 24 towns in North Lanarkshire: its median sale is £337,200. Private renters make up 4% of households, lower than both North Lanarkshire’s towns (9%) and Scotland’s towns (13%); what’s more, the social rented sector houses nearly a fifth of households.
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 heritage lists give each building’s grade but not its age, so we don’t say which is oldest.
Historic Environment Scotland’s list puts 1 listed building inside Chryston’s locality.
Historic Environment Scotland list, October 2026 · OGL
Scotland’s Census was taken on 20 March 2022, a year after England and Wales’s lockdown census; 29% of workers were mainly at home, and shares here are of those who travelled.
Work in town: 3% of resident commuters. Walking, cycling and public transport carried 14% of commuters at the census. Unemployment benefit claims came to 2% of 16 to 64s in 2026, below both North Lanarkshire’s towns (2.8%) and Scotland’s towns (2.8%). Jobs per working resident: 0.8.
Scotland’s Census 2022 (NRS), method of travel and distance to work · DWP claimant count · OGL
The age that splits Chryston in two is 45.4. People aged 15 to 24 make up a tenth of the town, below North Lanarkshire’s towns (12%) and Scotland’s towns (12%) alike. Graduates make up 29% of adults.
51% women, 49% men
About 95 men for every 100 women. Across Scotland, 51% of residents are women.
| Chryston | North Lanarkshire | Scotland | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 16% | 16% | 15% |
| 15–24 | 10% | 12% | 12% |
| 25–44 | 23% | 25% | 26% |
| 45–64 | 28% | 29% | 27% |
| 65+ | 22% | 18% | 19% |
| No qualifications | 18% | 21% | 17% |
| Apprenticeship | 8.6% | 8.4% | 7.5% |
| Highers or similar | 12% | 11% | 11% |
| Degree level | 29% | 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 Chryston. Best known first.
CastleBedlay Castle200 m outside town, to the eastGardenGardenSeven Lochs Wetland Park1.9 km outside town, to the southMuseumMuseumAuld Kirk Museum4.7 km outside town, to the northwestAttractionAttractionGartloch Hospital1.9 km outside town, to the southAttractionAttractionProvan Hall2.8 km outside town, to the southPhotos: each place’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chryston | 3,257 | — | — | B | — | C− |
| Moodiesburn | 6,706 | 1.2 | — | A+ | — | D |
| Gartcosh | 3,252 | 1.3 | — | A− | — | C |
| Stepps | 7,643 | 1.7 | — | A | — | C− |
| Lenzie | 8,278 | 2.3 | — | B+ | — | A |
| Glenboig | 3,035 | 2.4 | — | A− | — | D |
| Kirkintilloch | 22,013 | 2.7 | — | A | — | C− |
| Bargeddie | 3,567 | 3.4 | — | 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.
Band D council tax in Chryston 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.
GCSE results beat 71% of towns in England (Department for Education, Attainment 8). Chryston has 2 state schools; places are handled by the local council.
Town in North Lanarkshire, Scotland
Chryston is a locality of 3,257 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.
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026 (ONS boundaries). Northern Ireland: Source: NISRA; contains Land & Property Services data and Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland information, © Crown copyright, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Scotland: contains National Records of Scotland data, Registers of Scotland data and SEPA data, © Crown copyright / © SEPA 2025, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.