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With 7,136 residents, it is a town in Perth and Kinross, Scotland. Over-65s are 27% of the population.
Buying a home costs less than in most towns: a typical home costs £231,800 and rent runs £760 a month. Health outcomes fall short of most towns (C): life expectancy 79 for men, 82 for women. 113 buildings are listed here, 3 at Category A. Council tax at Band D comes to £1,674.
Figures: prices, HM Land Registry, the last three years · life expectancy, ONS. Police Scotland publishes no street-level crime, which leaves Crieff without a Safety Grade or an overall grade. Its other subjects are graded below.
The 3 things Crieff 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 Crieff is from typical. American towns are graded separately.
Police Scotland publishes no street-level crime, which leaves Crieff without a Safety Grade or an overall grade. Its other subjects are graded below.
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Historic Environment Scotland lists 113 buildings inside Crieff’s locality, 3 of them in the top category.
The archive holds 3 old photos and postcards going back to 1890.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Crieff.
Social housing holds 17% of households, below both Perth and Kinross’ towns (21%) and Scotland’s towns (24%). Behind the median of £231,800: 614 sales in Crieff’s data zones, 2023 to 2025. Private tenants account for 13% 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.
Below are two of its 3 schools, each with why it was picked. Crieff High School’s results beat 77% of schools in Scotland like it. Some 1,175 pupils attend the town’s two primaries and one secondary.
| School | Level | Pupils | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Crieff Primary SchoolLargest primary schoolPrimary | Primary | 391 | – |
| Crieff High SchoolLargest secondary schoolSecondary | Secondary | 645 | A− |
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: 43% of resident commuters. 51% of commuters travelled under 5 km, lower than Perth and Kinross’ towns (59%) yet higher than Scotland’s towns (44%). There are 0.9 jobs in Crieff for each resident in work.
Scotland’s Census 2022 (NRS), method of travel and distance to work · DWP claimant count · OGL
Residents of Crieff have a median age of 50.1. People aged 15 to 24 make up nearly a tenth of the town. 37% of adults hold a degree, above both Perth and Kinross’ towns (33%) and Scotland’s towns (32%).
52% women, 48% men
About 93 men for every 100 women. Across Scotland, 51% of residents are women. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
| Crieff | Perth and Kinross | Scotland | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 15% | 15% | 15% |
| 15–24 | 8.6% | 10% | 12% |
| 25–44 | 20% | 24% | 26% |
| 45–64 | 29% | 27% | 27% |
| 65+ | 27% | 24% | 19% |
| No qualifications | 14% | 16% | 17% |
| Apprenticeship | 7.7% | 7.9% | 7.5% |
| Highers or similar | 12% | 11% | 11% |
| Degree level | 37% | 33% | 32% |
Scotland’s Census 2022 · Perth and Kinross and Scotland: all residents of their towns · OGL
Men in Crieff can expect to live to 79, women to 82 (2020–24). At the census, just over four fifths of people in Crieff called their health good or very good, near Perth and Kinross’ towns (80%) and higher than Scotland’s towns (78%).
| Census 2022 | Crieff | Perth and Kinross | Scotland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Good or very good health | 81% | 80% | 78% |
| Bad or very bad health | 5.1% | 6% | 7.2% |
| Activities limited (health or disability) | 24% | 24% | 24% |
Scotland’s Census 2022, general health and disability · Public Health Scotland life expectancy by intermediate zone, 2020–24 · OGL · Young towns look healthier on these answers, which aren’t adjusted for age; the Health Grade uses measures that are, 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.
Scaled to its population, that is 158 listed buildings for every 10,000 people in Crieff. Category B covers 52 of them, Category A 3. One garden or designed landscape lies locally.
Historic Environment Scotland list, October 2026 · OGL
Museums, castles, gardens and days out in and near Crieff. Best known first.
CastleDrummond Castle2.6 km outside town, to the southwest
CastleMonzie Castle1.8 km outside town, to the north
CastleCastle Cluggy1.6 km outside town, to the northwest
CastleInnerpeffray Castle4.2 km outside town, to the southeastAttractionAttractionGlenturret Distillery Visitor Centre500 m outside town, to the northwestMuseumMuseumThe Library of Innerpeffray3.7 km outside town, to the southeastPhotos: each place’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
113 listed buildings in Crieff, 3 of them in the top category.
High Street, The Bank Restaurant, Former British Linen Bank: Photo: Basher Eyre · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Comrie Street, Old South Church, Antique Galleries Including Mission Hall, Boundary Walls, Railings, Gatepiers and Gates: Photo: M J Richardson · CC BY-SA 2.0 · High Street, Tourist Information Centre, Former Town Hall: Photo: M J Richardson · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Drummond Terrace, Roundelwood Health Spa Including Boundary Walls with Gatepiers: Photo: LornaMCampbell · CC BY-SA 4.0
14 notable people were born in Crieff.
Thomas Thomson: AnonymousUnknown author, Public domain · Gavin Strang: Benoît Bourgeois, © European Communities, 1997, CC BY 4.0 · Alexander Dow: Joshua Reynolds, Public domain
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crieff | 7,136 | — | — | A+ | — | C |
| Auchterarder | 6,058 | 7.3 | — | A | — | B− |
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.
That is 6.5 times the typical town in England and Wales for its size. Its Category A buildings include Broich Terrace, Inchglas Including Boundary Walls and Gatepiers.
Band D council tax in Crieff 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 81% of towns in England (Department for Education, Attainment 8). Crieff has 3 state schools; places are handled by the local council.
Town in Perth and Kinross, Scotland
Crieff is a locality of 7,136 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
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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