HarthillNorth Lanarkshire
A Band D home pays £1,555 in council tax. The town, home to 2,613 people, lies in North Lanarkshire, Scotland.
Is Harthill a good place to live?
Housing is within reach: a typical home costs £133,200 and rent runs £779 a month. Its schools beat most: school leavers’ results beat 95% of Scottish towns. Health outcomes fall short of most towns: life expectancy 77 for men, 79.8 for women. Hazard risk is lower than in most UK towns (A).
Figures: prices, HM Land Registry, the last three years · life expectancy, ONS · flood risk, SEPA. Harthill has no Safety Grade, because Police Scotland doesn’t publish street-level crime, and so no overall grade. The other subjects are graded below.
What makes Harthill stand out
The 3 things Harthill does most differently from other towns.
How Harthill grades
Each subject compared with the 2,160 UK towns with an overall grade (schools within Scotland), ordered by how far Harthill is from typical. American towns are graded separately.
Harthill has no Safety Grade, because Police Scotland doesn’t publish street-level crime, and so no overall grade. The other subjects are graded below.
How TownRatings grades towns →
The data
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Harthill.
Fewer people in Harthill hold a degree than in North Lanarkshire’s towns or Scotland’s towns: 15%
People 65 and over make up a fifth of the town, higher than both North Lanarkshire’s towns (18%) and Scotland’s towns (19%). Aged 15 to 24: nearly one in ten residents. At 45.4, the median resident of Harthill sits in the middle of the age range.
Ages · share of residents
Qualifications · residents 16 and older
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About an even split. Across Scotland, 51% of residents are women.
| Harthill | North Lanarkshire | Scotland | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 16% | 16% | 15% |
| 15–24 | 8.9% | 12% | 12% |
| 25–44 | 25% | 25% | 26% |
| 45–64 | 30% | 29% | 27% |
| 65+ | 20% | 18% | 19% |
| No qualifications | 27% | 21% | 17% |
| Apprenticeship | 8.6% | 8.4% | 7.5% |
| Highers or similar | 9.7% | 11% | 11% |
| Degree level | 15% | 23% | 32% |
Scotland’s Census 2022 · North Lanarkshire and Scotland: all residents of their towns · OGL
For , Harthill gets an A
Of its 2 schools, one is shown below, with the reason. Harthill’s two primaries have 255 pupils between them.
| School | Level | Pupils | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alexander Peden PrimaryLargest primary schoolPrimary | Primary | 142 | – |
Private renting is less common in Harthill than in North Lanarkshire’s towns or across Scotland’s towns: 8%
30% live in social housing, higher than both North Lanarkshire’s towns (28%) and Scotland’s towns (24%). The owner-occupied share of households is 58%. Also worth knowing: 93 sales in Harthill’s data zones from 2023 to 2025 make up the median of £133,200.
Median sale price · 2023 to 2025, at early-2025 prices
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.
Harthill’s life expectancy trails 91% of UK towns
Disability touches 30% of Harthill’s population. Of the 24 towns in North Lanarkshire, Harthill has the second-largest share in bad or very bad health: 11%. 72% of people in Harthill rate their own health good or very good.
| Census 2022 | Harthill | North Lanarkshire | Scotland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Good or very good health | 72% | 75% | 78% |
| Bad or very bad health | 11% | 9% | 7.2% |
| Activities limited (health or disability) | 30% | 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.
No listed buildings in Harthill
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 has no building inside Harthill’s locality.
Listed buildings by grade · Historic Environment Scotland
Historic Environment Scotland list, October 2026 · OGL
Commuters in Harthill travel far: only 14% go under 5 km, fewer than in both North Lanarkshire’s towns and Scotland’s towns
Scotland’s Census was taken on 20 March 2022, a year after England and Wales’s lockdown census; 25% of workers were mainly at home, and shares here are of those who travelled.
83% of commuters drove to work at the census. Of the commuters living in Harthill, 2% work in the town itself. Home was the main workplace for a quarter of workers at the census.
How commuters got to work · March 2022
Scotland’s Census 2022 (NRS), method of travel and distance to work · DWP claimant count · OGL
Scottish Owl Centre and 4 more in and around Harthill
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Everything we know about Harthill
Famous people from Harthill
10 notable people were born in Harthill.
Photo credits
Alex Cunningham: Chris McAndrew, CC BY 3.0 · Colin Cloud: Dragon Dream Photography, CC0
Harthill’s neighbours
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harthill | 2,613 | — | — | A+ | — | D− |
| Whitburn | 11,772 | 2.4 | — | A+ | — | D− |
| Fauldhouse | 4,587 | 2.9 | — | A+ | — | D− |
| Armadale | 12,590 | 3.2 | — | A | — | D |
| Shotts | 8,794 | 3.3 | — | A+ | — | D− |
| Blackburn | 5,263 | 5.1 | — | A | — | D− |
| Bathgate | 22,229 | 5.2 | — | A+ | — | C− |
| Newmains | 5,364 | 6.9 | — | 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.
Questions about Harthill
Are schools in Harthill good?
GCSE results beat 95% of towns in England (Department for Education, Attainment 8). Harthill has 2 state schools; places are handled by the local council.
Is Harthill expensive to live in?
Homes cost less than in most UK towns: the median sale over three years was £133,200, against £277,000 in the typical town in England and Wales. On cost of living it is the 66th most affordable of 296 Scottish towns.
How much is council tax in Harthill?
Band D council tax in Harthill 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.
About Harthill
Town in North Lanarkshire, Scotland
Harthill is a locality of 2,613 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
- Population
- 2,613 (Census 2022)
- Council
- North Lanarkshire (mostly)
- Nation
- Scotland
- Area
- 0.3 sq mi (0.8 km²)
- NRS code
- S52000307
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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