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A Band D home pays £1,674 in council tax. Home to 5,611 people, this town lies in Perth and Kinross, Scotland.
Prices are modest for what you get: homes sell for a median £238,400, about 5 times local household income. Hazards are a real consideration: 1.6% of homes face a high or medium risk of river or sea flooding. Its other grades sit near the middle: C+ for health and B for walkability. 31 listed buildings, 0 of them in the top category.
Figures: prices, HM Land Registry, the last three years · flood risk, SEPA · life expectancy, ONS · commuting, Census 2022. Without street-level crime figures from Police Scotland, Kinross has no Safety Grade, and so no overall grade. The other subjects are graded below.
The 3 things Kinross 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 Kinross is from typical. American towns are graded separately.
Without street-level crime figures from Police Scotland, Kinross has no Safety Grade, and so no overall grade. The other subjects are graded below.
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Historic Environment Scotland lists 31 buildings inside Kinross’s locality, 18 of them in the second category, and 1 scheduled monument.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Kinross.
9% of households are private tenants. Social housing holds 13% of households, below both Perth and Kinross’ towns (21%) and Scotland’s towns (24%). The median, £238,400, rests on 480 sales in the town’s data zones from 2023 to 2025.
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.
Kinross High School’s results beat 88% of schools in Scotland like it. Its two schools are below. Some 1,317 pupils attend the town’s one primary and one secondary.
| School | Level | Pupils | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kinross Primary SchoolLargest primary schoolPrimary | Primary | 454 | – |
| Kinross High SchoolLargest secondary schoolSecondary | Secondary | 863 | A |
Scotland’s Census was taken on 20 March 2022, a year after England and Wales’s lockdown census; 30% of workers were mainly at home, and shares here are of those who travelled.
26% of commuters travelled under 5 km to work. At the census, 16% went to work on foot, by bike or by public transport, below Perth and Kinross’ towns (27%) and Scotland’s towns (27%) alike. Unemployment benefit claims reached 1.8% of 16 to 64s in 2026.
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 18 of them. Kinross has 31 listed buildings on Historic Environment Scotland’s list: 18 Category B. It has one scheduled monument.
Historic Environment Scotland list, October 2026 · OGL
At the census, 82% of people in Kinross called their health good or very good, higher than both Perth and Kinross’ towns (80%) and Scotland’s towns (78%). 22% of residents in Kinross live with a disability.
| Census 2022 | Kinross | Perth and Kinross | Scotland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Good or very good health | 82% | 80% | 78% |
| Bad or very bad health | 5.1% | 6% | 7.2% |
| Activities limited (health or disability) | 22% | 24% | 24% |
Scotland’s Census 2022, general health and disability · Public Health Scotland life expectancy by intermediate zone, 2020–24 · OGL · Read these answers with age in mind: they aren’t adjusted, so younger places do better. The Health Grade uses age-adjusted measures, life expectancy and early deaths among them.
The 15-to-24 age group: 8.8%, below both Perth and Kinross’ towns (10%) and Scotland’s towns (12%). The age that splits Kinross in two is 48.5. One measure of family life: 16% of residents are under 15.
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.
| Kinross | Perth and Kinross | Scotland | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 16% | 15% | 15% |
| 15–24 | 8.8% | 10% | 12% |
| 25–44 | 21% | 24% | 26% |
| 45–64 | 27% | 27% | 27% |
| 65+ | 26% | 24% | 19% |
| No qualifications | 14% | 16% | 17% |
| Apprenticeship | 7.4% | 7.9% | 7.5% |
| Highers or similar | 11% | 11% | 11% |
| Degree level | 40% | 33% | 32% |
Scotland’s Census 2022 · Perth and Kinross and Scotland: all residents of their towns · OGL
Museums, castles, gardens and days out in and near Kinross. Best known first.
Castle · Historic Environment ScotlandLoch Leven Castle1.4 km outside town, to the southeast
Historic houseKinross House500 m outside town, to the southeast
CastleCleish Castle4.8 km outside town, to the southwestCastleCastleBurleigh Castle1.4 km outside town, to the northeastAttractionAttractionScottish Lavender1.7 km outside town, to the northeastPhotos: each place’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
31 listed buildings in Kinross.
49 Muirs, The Muirs Inn Including Gatepiers and Boundary Walls: Photo: Sandywood689 · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Mercat Cross Sandport: Photo: kim traynor · CC BY-SA 2.0
7 notable people were born in Kinross.
Chloé Webster: Manny Lopez (friend), CC BY-SA 4.0
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kinross | 5,611 | — | — | A+ | — | C+ |
| Ballingry | 5,823 | 5.2 | — | A | — | D− |
| Kelty | 6,898 | 5.4 | — | A | — | D |
| Lochgelly | 7,157 | 7.3 | — | A | — | D− |
| Cowdenbeath and Lumphinnans | 11,979 | 7.5 | — | A | — | D− |
| Cardenden and Auchterderran | 5,266 | 8 | — | A | — | D− |
| Leslie | 2,888 | 8.1 | — | A | — | D |
| Crossgates | 2,993 | 9 | — | A | — | C− |
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 2.3 times the typical town in England and Wales for its size. It also has 1 scheduled monument.
GCSE results beat 92% of towns in England (Department for Education, Attainment 8). Kinross has 2 state schools; places are handled by the local council.
Band D council tax in Kinross 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.
Surface water isn’t included. Check a specific address on GOV.UK’s flood risk service.
Town in Perth and Kinross, Scotland
Kinross is a locality of 5,611 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.
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.