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Home to 6,058 people, this town lies in Perth and Kinross, Scotland.
Auchterarder’s strongest subject is cost of living (A): the median home sold for £275,500, 5.7 years of area income. Add schools to its strengths: school leavers’ results beat nearly three quarters of Scottish towns. A Band D home pays £1,674 in council tax. Private rents average £760 a month.
Figures: prices, HM Land Registry, the last three years. Police Scotland publishes no street-level crime, which leaves Auchterarder without a Safety Grade or an overall grade. The other subjects are graded below.
Each subject compared with the 2,160 UK towns with an overall grade (schools within Scotland), ordered by how far Auchterarder is from typical. American towns are graded separately.
Police Scotland publishes no street-level crime, which leaves Auchterarder without a Safety Grade or an overall grade. The other subjects are graded below.
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The 3 things Auchterarder does most differently from other towns.
Historic Environment Scotland lists 27 buildings inside Auchterarder’s locality, 17 of them in the second category.
Explore the history →27 listed buildings in Auchterarder.
Aytoun Hall, High Street.: Photo: Martin Addison · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Old Parish Church Tower and Graveyard.: Photo: Richard Sutcliffe · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Geograph
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Auchterarder.
Social housing holds 14% of households, below Perth and Kinross’ towns (21%) and Scotland’s towns (24%) alike. No town in Perth and Kinross costs more to buy into than Auchterarder, at £275,500, the highest of 8. 11% of households are private tenants.
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 one school in town appears below. Its one secondary school teaches 508 pupils.
| School | Level | Pupils | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Community School of AuchterarderLargest secondary schoolAll-through | All-through | 508 | B+ |
The middle age in Auchterarder is 47.8. Nearly a tenth of the population is aged 15 to 24, lower than both Perth and Kinross’ towns (10%) and Scotland’s towns (12%). The under-15s are 16% of the population here.
51% women, 49% men
About an even split. Across Scotland, 51% of residents are women.
| Auchterarder | Perth and Kinross | Scotland | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 16% | 15% | 15% |
| 15–24 | 8.6% | 10% | 12% |
| 25–44 | 22% | 24% | 26% |
| 45–64 | 27% | 27% | 27% |
| 65+ | 26% | 24% | 19% |
| No qualifications | 12% | 16% | 17% |
| Apprenticeship | 7.2% | 7.9% | 7.5% |
| Highers or similar | 12% | 11% | 11% |
| Degree level | 41% | 33% | 32% |
Scotland’s Census 2022 · Perth and Kinross and Scotland: all residents of their towns · OGL
Scotland’s Census was taken on 20 March 2022, a year after England and Wales’s lockdown census; 35% of workers were mainly at home, and shares here are of those who travelled.
Nearly two in five commuters travelled under 5 km to work. The car took 78% of commuters, higher than both Perth and Kinross’ towns (71%) and Scotland’s towns (70%). The 2026 claimant rate among 16 to 64s was 1.5%.
Scotland’s Census 2022 (NRS), method of travel and distance to work · DWP claimant count · OGL
The heritage lists give each building’s grade but not its age, so we don’t say which is oldest.
Category B covers 17 of them. Only one town in Perth and Kinross has fewer listed buildings for its size than Auchterarder. One garden or designed landscape lies in the town.
Historic Environment Scotland list, October 2026 · OGL
Poor health, by residents’ own account, affects 4.9% of the town. At the census, 20% of people here had a disability, below Perth and Kinross’ towns (24%) and Scotland’s towns (24%) alike.
| Census 2022 | Auchterarder | Perth and Kinross | Scotland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Good or very good health | 84% | 80% | 78% |
| Bad or very bad health | 4.9% | 6% | 7.2% |
| Activities limited (health or disability) | 20% | 24% | 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.
12 notable people were born in Auchterarder.
Eve Graham: Rob Mieremet / Anefo, CC0 · Norma Lorimer: Alexander Bassano, Public domain
Town in Perth and Kinross, Scotland
Auchterarder is a locality of 6,058 people, in the Perth and Kinross 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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Auchterarder | 6,058 | — | — | A | — | B− |
| Crieff | 7,136 | 7.3 | — | A+ | — | C |
| Dollar | 2,853 | 9.2 | — | C− | — | A |
| Tillicoultry | 4,482 | 9.8 | — | A− | — | D |
| Alva | 4,820 | 10 | — | A− | — | D |
| Menstrie | 2,834 | 11 | — | B | — | C |
| Sauchie | 6,357 | 12 | — | 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.
An older town. More households own their home than across Scotland’s towns: 72%, against 60%.
Band D council tax in Auchterarder is £1,674 for 2026–27, less than in 92% of UK towns (council, county, police and fire). Your own bill depends on your home’s band; check it on GOV.UK.
GCSE results beat 74% of towns in England (Department for Education, Attainment 8). One state school is inside the town; places are handled by the local council.
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.
