MoodiesburnNorth Lanarkshire
A Band D home pays £1,555 in council tax. The town has 6,706 residents and lies in North Lanarkshire, Scotland.
Is Moodiesburn a good place to live?
Homes are affordable: homes sell for a median £175,400, about 4 times local household income. Schools are another plus — school leavers’ results beat 71% of Scottish towns. The weak point is health — life expectancy is 77.8 for men and 80.8 for women. Natural hazards weigh less here than in most UK towns (A−): 0.1% of homes at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea.
Figures: prices, HM Land Registry, the last three years · life expectancy, ONS · flood risk, SEPA. Police Scotland publishes no street-level crime, which leaves Moodiesburn without a Safety Grade or an overall grade. Every other subject still has a grade below.
What makes Moodiesburn stand out
The 2 things Moodiesburn does most differently from other towns.
How Moodiesburn grades
Each subject compared with the 2,160 UK towns with an overall grade (schools within Scotland), ordered by how far Moodiesburn is from typical. American towns are graded separately.
Police Scotland publishes no street-level crime, which leaves Moodiesburn without a Safety Grade or an overall grade. Every other subject still has a grade below.
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The data
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Moodiesburn.
Private renting is less common in Moodiesburn than in North Lanarkshire’s towns or across Scotland’s towns: 6%
Owners make up 69% of households, higher than both North Lanarkshire’s towns (61%) and Scotland’s towns (60%). 311 sales in Moodiesburn’s data zones from 2023 to 2025 make up the median of £175,400. Private rents average £779 a month across the North Lanarkshire council area.
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.
Moodiesburn’s grade for : a B+
Some 477 pupils attend Moodiesburn’s two primaries. Below is one of its 2 schools, and why it was picked.
| School | Level | Pupils | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Michael's Primary SchoolLargest primary schoolPrimary | Primary | 258 | – |
People in Moodiesburn live shorter lives than in 85% of UK towns
Nearly a quarter of residents have a disability, about level with Scotland’s towns (24%) and below North Lanarkshire’s towns (26%). At the census, 7.4% of people here described their health as bad or very bad. Asked at the census, 78% of residents of Moodiesburn said they were in good or very good health.
| Census 2022 | Moodiesburn | North Lanarkshire | Scotland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Good or very good health | 78% | 75% | 78% |
| Bad or very bad health | 7.4% | 9% | 7.2% |
| Activities limited (health or disability) | 24% | 26% | 24% |
Scotland’s Census 2022, general health and disability · Public Health Scotland life expectancy by intermediate zone, 2020–24 · OGL · No age adjustment applies to these census answers, which flatter younger towns; the Health Grade’s measures, life expectancy and early deaths among them, do allow for age.
Under 5 km to work: 15% in Moodiesburn, 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; 31% of workers were mainly at home, and shares here are of those who travelled.
17% of commuters walked, cycled or took the bus or train at the census, close to North Lanarkshire’s towns (17%) and below Scotland’s towns (27%). The car carried 81% of commuters at the census. In 2026, 3.2% of 16 to 64s were claiming unemployment benefits.
How commuters got to work · March 2022
Scotland’s Census 2022 (NRS), method of travel and distance to work · DWP claimant count · OGL
No listed buildings in Moodiesburn
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 Moodiesburn’s locality.
Listed buildings by grade · Historic Environment Scotland
Historic Environment Scotland list, October 2026 · OGL
A typical mix of ages for Scotland
Line up the people of Moodiesburn by age and the one in the middle is 43.1. Children under 15 make up 15%, about level with Scotland’s towns (15%) and below North Lanarkshire’s towns (16%). Young adults of 15 to 24 are just over a tenth of the population.
Ages · share of residents
Qualifications · residents 16 and older
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
About 93 men for every 100 women. Across Scotland, 51% of residents are women.
| Moodiesburn | North Lanarkshire | Scotland | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 15% | 16% | 15% |
| 15–24 | 12% | 12% | 12% |
| 25–44 | 25% | 25% | 26% |
| 45–64 | 29% | 29% | 27% |
| 65+ | 18% | 18% | 19% |
| No qualifications | 19% | 21% | 17% |
| Apprenticeship | 9.4% | 8.4% | 7.5% |
| Highers or similar | 11% | 11% | 11% |
| Degree level | 24% | 23% | 32% |
Scotland’s Census 2022 · North Lanarkshire and Scotland: all residents of their towns · OGL
Bedlay Castle and 4 more in and around Moodiesburn
Museums, castles, gardens and days out in and near Moodiesburn. Best known first.
CastleBedlay Castle400 m outside town, to the southwestGardenGardenSeven Lochs Wetland Park3.2 km outside town, to the southMuseumMuseumAuld Kirk Museum4.9 km outside town, to the northwestAttractionAttractionGartloch Hospital3 km outside town, to the southAttractionAttractionProvan Hall4.6 km outside town, to the southwestPhotos: each place’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
Photo credits (1)
- Bedlay Castle: Drawn by User:Supergolden, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
Everything we know about Moodiesburn
Moodiesburn’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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Moodiesburn | 6,706 | — | — | A+ | — | D |
| Chryston | 3,257 | 1.2 | — | B | — | C− |
| Gartcosh | 3,252 | 1.6 | — | A− | — | C |
| Glenboig | 3,035 | 1.9 | — | A− | — | D |
| Kirkintilloch | 22,013 | 2.7 | — | A | — | C− |
| Stepps | 7,643 | 2.9 | — | A | — | C− |
| Lenzie | 8,278 | 2.9 | — | B+ | — | A |
| Bargeddie | 3,567 | 3.9 | — | 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 Moodiesburn
How much is council tax in Moodiesburn?
Band D council tax in Moodiesburn 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.
Is Moodiesburn expensive to live in?
Homes cost less than in most UK towns: the median sale over three years was £175,400, against £277,000 in the typical town in England and Wales. On cost of living it is the 101st most affordable of 296 Scottish towns.
Does Moodiesburn flood?
Surface water isn’t included. Check a specific address on GOV.UK’s flood risk service.
About Moodiesburn
Town in North Lanarkshire, Scotland
Moodiesburn is a locality of 6,706 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
- 6,706 (Census 2022)
- Council
- North Lanarkshire
- Nation
- Scotland
- Area
- 0.7 sq mi (1.7 km²)
- NRS code
- S52000458
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.