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A Band D home pays £1,691 in council tax. 14,857 residents make their home in this town in Renfrewshire, Scotland.
Cost of living is its strong suit — homes sell for a median £174,300, about 4.2 times local household income. Health is its weak spot: men here can expect to live to 78.6, women to 82.3. Elsewhere it is close to typical: B− for schools and B for walkability. Natural hazards are less of a worry than in most UK towns: 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 · commuting, Census 2022 · flood risk, SEPA. Police Scotland doesn’t publish street-level crime, so Erskine has no Safety Grade and, without it, no overall grade. Its 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 Erskine is from typical. American towns are graded separately.
Police Scotland doesn’t publish street-level crime, so Erskine has no Safety Grade and, without it, no overall grade. Its other subjects are graded below.
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The 3 things Erskine does most differently from other towns.
Historic Environment Scotland lists 11 buildings inside Erskine’s locality, 1 of them in the top category.
Explore the history →11 listed buildings in Erskine, 1 of them in the top category.
Erskine Parish Church, Freeland by Bishoptown: Photo: william craig · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Erskine House, Stable Court: Photo: Gordon McKinlay · CC BY-SA 2.0
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Erskine.
The social rented sector houses 14% of households. Owners make up 78% of households, higher than both Renfrewshire’s towns (65%) and Scotland’s towns (60%). Behind the median of £174,300: 717 sales in Erskine’s data zones, 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.
Erskine’s five primaries and one secondary have 2,606 pupils between them. Two of its 6 schools are below, each with the reason it’s listed.
| School | Level | Pupils | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Barsail Primary SchoolLargest primary schoolPrimary | Primary | 336 | – |
| Park Mains High SchoolLargest secondary schoolSecondary | Secondary | 1,534 | A |
Just over a quarter of residents in Erskine live with a disability. At the census, 7.3% of residents said their health was bad or very bad, below Renfrewshire’s towns (7.7%) and close to Scotland’s towns (7.2%).
| Census 2022 | Erskine | Renfrewshire | Scotland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Good or very good health | 78% | 78% | 78% |
| Bad or very bad health | 7.3% | 7.7% | 7.2% |
| Activities limited (health or disability) | 26% | 25% | 24% |
Scotland’s Census 2022, general health and disability · Public Health Scotland life expectancy by intermediate zone, 2020–24 · OGL · Because the census answers ignore age, a younger population lifts them; that is why the Health Grade is built on age-adjusted measures like 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.
At the top of the list, 1 are Category A and 9 Category B. Relative to its size, Erskine keeps 7 listed buildings per 10,000 residents, lower than both Renfrewshire’s towns (20) and Scotland’s towns (22).
Historic Environment Scotland list, October 2026 · OGL
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.
The car took just over four in five commuters, above both Renfrewshire’s towns (76%) and Scotland’s towns (70%). 30% of commuters travelled under 5 km to work. Of the commuters living in Erskine, 12% work in the town itself. 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
Graduates make up 27% of adults. Line up the people of Erskine by age and the one in the middle is 46.3. The 15-to-24 age group: 11%, about level with Renfrewshire’s towns (11%) and below Scotland’s towns (12%).
52% women, 48% men
About 93 men for every 100 women. Across Scotland, 51% of residents are women.
| Erskine | Renfrewshire | Scotland | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 15% | 15% | 15% |
| 15–24 | 11% | 11% | 12% |
| 25–44 | 21% | 26% | 26% |
| 45–64 | 29% | 28% | 27% |
| 65+ | 22% | 19% | 19% |
| No qualifications | 15% | 17% | 17% |
| Apprenticeship | 9.8% | 8.5% | 7.5% |
| Highers or similar | 11% | 11% | 11% |
| Degree level | 27% | 30% | 32% |
Scotland’s Census 2022 · Renfrewshire and Scotland: all residents of their towns · OGL
Museums, castles, gardens and days out in and near Erskine. Best known first.
Castle · Historic Environment ScotlandDumbarton Castle5 km outside town, to the northwest
MuseumClydebank Museum and Art Gallery1.1 km outside town, to the eastAttractionAttractionAuchentoshan Distillery1.5 km outside town, to the northAttractionAttractionTitan Crane900 m outside town, to the eastMuseumMuseumRenfrew Museum2.9 km outside town, to the southeastCastleCastleDargavel House2.1 km outside town, to the westPhotos: each place’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
6 notable people were born in Erskine.
Chloe Arthur: James Boyes from UK, CC BY 2.0 · Blair Spittal: Andrew Hendo, Public domain
Town in Renfrewshire, Scotland
Erskine is a locality of 14,857 people, in the Renfrewshire 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Erskine | 14,857 | — | — | A | — | C− |
| Bowling and Old Kilpatrick | 4,761 | 1.6 | — | B+ | — | C |
| Clydebank | 26,220 | 1.7 | — | A− | — | D− |
| Duntocher and Hardgate | 6,573 | 2.2 | — | B+ | — | C− |
| Bishopton | 10,048 | 2.3 | — | B− | — | A− |
| Faifley | 4,785 | 2.9 | — | A− | — | D− |
| Renfrew | 23,812 | 2.9 | — | A | — | D |
| Linwood | 8,408 | 4.1 | — | 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.
Homes cost less than in most UK towns: the median sale over three years was £174,300, against £277,000 in the typical town in England and Wales. On cost of living it is the 190th most affordable of 296 Scottish towns.
Band D council tax in Erskine is £1,691 for 2026–27, less than in 90% 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.
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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