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A town of 3,698 in Scottish Borders, Scotland.
Police Scotland doesn’t publish street-level crime, so Eyemouth has no Safety Grade and, without it, no overall grade. Its other subjects are graded below. Its strongest subject is cost of living (A+): the 80th most affordable of 296 Scottish towns: median sale £161,000, 3.6 years of area income; rent £760 a month. Its weakest is hazard risk (D): 7% of homes at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea.
The 3 things Eyemouth 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 Eyemouth is from typical. American towns are graded separately.
Police Scotland doesn’t publish street-level crime, so Eyemouth has no Safety Grade and, without it, no overall grade. Its other subjects are graded below.
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Historic Environment Scotland lists 54 buildings inside Eyemouth’s locality, 2 of them in the top category, and 2 scheduled monuments.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Eyemouth.
For Eyemouth, that is below both Scottish Borders’ towns (12%) and Scotland’s towns (13%). 38% of households live in social housing.
Registers of Scotland data-zone sale prices · Scottish Government council tax · Scotland’s Census 2022 tenure · OGL
Its two schools are below. The grade uses the secondaries its children go to; Scotland publishes no primary results by school.
| School | Level | Pupils | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eyemouth Primary SchoolLargest primary schoolPrimary | Primary | 279 | – |
| Eyemouth High SchoolLargest secondary schoolSecondary | Secondary | 502 | B− |
Scotland’s Census was taken on 20 March 2022, a year after England and Wales’s lockdown census; 24% of workers were mainly at home, and shares here are of those who travelled.
Eyemouth sits above both Scottish Borders’ towns (3.3%) and Scotland’s towns (2.8%) on this measure. 24% of workers worked mainly from home at the census.
Scotland’s Census 2022 (NRS), method of travel and distance to work · DWP claimant count · OGL
Women here live to 83.1 on average and men to 77.6 (2020–24). Of the 11 towns in Scottish Borders, Eyemouth has the second-largest share in bad or very bad health: 7.7%. These answers aren’t adjusted for age, so young towns look healthier; the Health Grade uses age-adjusted measures, including life expectancy and early deaths.
| Census 2022 | Eyemouth | Scottish Borders | Scotland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Good or very good health | 77% | 78% | 78% |
| Bad or very bad health | 7.7% | 6.4% | 7.2% |
| Activities limited (health or disability) | 25% | 25% | 24% |
Scotland’s Census 2022, general health and disability · Public Health Scotland life expectancy by intermediate zone, 2020–24 · OGL
The heritage lists give each building’s grade but not its age, so we don’t say which is oldest.
That puts Eyemouth above both Scottish Borders’ towns (8%) and Scotland’s towns (1%). For its size, Eyemouth has 146 listed buildings per 10,000 residents. Eyemouth has 54 listed buildings on Historic Environment Scotland’s list: 2 Category A, 12 Category B.
Historic Environment Scotland list, October 2026 · OGL
On this, Eyemouth is below both Scottish Borders’ towns (26%) and Scotland’s towns (32%). Children are 17% of the town. Half the people of Eyemouth are older than 45.
52% women, 48% men
About 92 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.
| Eyemouth | Scottish Borders | Scotland | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 17% | 15% | 15% |
| 15–24 | 10% | 10% | 12% |
| 25–44 | 22% | 21% | 26% |
| 45–64 | 26% | 28% | 27% |
| 65+ | 24% | 26% | 19% |
| No qualifications | 24% | 20% | 17% |
| Apprenticeship | 8.5% | 9.3% | 7.5% |
| Highers or similar | 12% | 11% | 11% |
| Degree level | 19% | 26% | 32% |
Scotland’s Census 2022 · Scottish Borders and Scotland: all residents of their towns · OGL
Museums, castles, gardens and days out in and near Eyemouth. Best known first.
CastleAyton Castle2.5 km outside town, to the southwestPark or estatePark or estate · National Trust for ScotlandSt Abb's Head National Nature Reserve4.7 km outside town, to the northwestPhotos: each place’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
54 listed buildings in Eyemouth, 2 of them in the top category.
High Street and Albert Road Old Churchyard and Watch-House: Photo: Victuallers · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Church Street Evangelical Union Congregational Church: Photo: Mainlymazza · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Eyemouth Fort: Photo: Eirian Evans · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Geograph · Victoria Road Eyemouth Parish Church: Photo: Victuallers · 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eyemouth | 3,698 | — | — | A+ | — | C− |
| Berwick-upon-Tweed | 13,181 | 8.1 | C | A | C | C− |
| Duns | 3,117 | 12 | — | 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 6 times the typical town in England and Wales for its size. Its Category A buildings include Gunsgreen House and Terrace Retaining Wall. (Eyemouth Golf Club and Border Sailing Club). It also has 2 scheduled monuments.
Surface water isn’t included. Check a specific address on GOV.UK’s flood risk service.
Band D council tax in Eyemouth is £1,619 for 2026–27, less than in 95% of UK towns (council, county, police and fire). Your own bill depends on your home’s band; check it on GOV.UK.
Homes cost less than in most UK towns: the median sale over three years was £161,000, against £277,000 in the typical town in England and Wales. On cost of living it is the 80th most affordable of 296 Scottish towns.
Town in Scottish Borders, Scotland
Eyemouth is a locality of 3,698 people, in the Scottish Borders 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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