Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
A town of 3,530 in Scottish Borders, Scotland. Band D council tax is £1,619.
Police Scotland doesn’t publish street-level crime, so Langlee 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 99th most affordable of 296 Scottish towns: median sale £175,600, 4 years of area income; rent £760 a month. Its weakest is schools (C−): school leavers’ results beat 18% of Scottish towns.
The 3 things Langlee 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 Langlee is from typical. American towns are graded separately.
Police Scotland doesn’t publish street-level crime, so Langlee has no Safety Grade and, without it, no overall grade. Its other subjects are graded below.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Historic Environment Scotland lists 2 buildings inside Langlee’s locality, 1 of them in the second category.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Langlee.
7% rent privately, below Scottish Borders’ towns (12%) and Scotland’s towns (13%) alike. Home ownership stands at 46% of households. 136 sales in Langlee’s data zones from 2023 to 2025 make up the median of £175,600.
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 is its only school. Its one primary school teaches 172 pupils.
| School | Level | Pupils | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Langlee Primary SchoolLargest primary schoolPrimary | Primary | 172 | – |
Scotland’s Census was taken on 20 March 2022, a year after England and Wales’s lockdown census; 26% of workers were mainly at home, and shares here are of those who travelled.
22% of commuters walked, cycled or took the bus or train at the census, lower than both Scottish Borders’ towns (26%) and Scotland’s towns (27%). There are 0.3 jobs in Langlee for each resident in work. Of the commuters living in the town, 4% work in the town itself. Also worth knowing: for nearly two thirds of commuters, work was under 5 km away.
Scotland’s Census 2022 (NRS), method of travel and distance to work · DWP claimant count · OGL
Men in Langlee can expect to live to 76.6, women to 84.7 (2020–24). Poor health, by residents’ own account, affects 7.4% of the town. Just over a quarter of residents in Langlee live with a disability.
| Census 2022 | Langlee | Scottish Borders | Scotland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Good or very good health | 76% | 78% | 78% |
| Bad or very bad health | 7.4% | 6.4% | 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 · A young population flatters these answers, which are not age-adjusted; the Health Grade instead uses measures that allow for age, 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.
Langlee has 2 listed buildings on Historic Environment Scotland’s list: 1 Category B. Relative to its size, Langlee keeps 6 listed buildings per 10,000 residents.
Historic Environment Scotland list, October 2026 · OGL
21% of adults hold a degree, below Scottish Borders’ towns (26%) and Scotland’s towns (32%) alike. Retirement age and beyond: 16% of residents are 65 or older. The middle age in Langlee is 39. Those aged 15 to 24 account for one in ten residents.
51% women, 49% men
About 94 men for every 100 women. Across Scotland, 51% of residents are women.
| Langlee | Scottish Borders | Scotland | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 19% | 15% | 15% |
| 15–24 | 10% | 10% | 12% |
| 25–44 | 29% | 21% | 26% |
| 45–64 | 25% | 28% | 27% |
| 65+ | 16% | 26% | 19% |
| No qualifications | 21% | 20% | 17% |
| Apprenticeship | 7.2% | 9.3% | 7.5% |
| Highers or similar | 11% | 11% | 11% |
| Degree level | 21% | 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 Langlee. Best known first.
Historic houseAbbotsford House700 m outside town, to the south
Abbey or priory · National Trust for ScotlandMelrose Abbey2.6 km outside town, to the east
Garden · National Trust for ScotlandHarmony Garden2.5 km outside town, to the east
MuseumOld Gala House1.2 km outside town, to the west
MuseumCommendator's House Museum2.6 km outside town, to the eastAttractionAttraction · National Trust for ScotlandPriorwood Garden2.7 km outside town, to the southeastPhotos: each place’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Langlee | 3,530 | — | — | A+ | — | C− |
| Galashiels | 10,071 | 1.4 | — | A+ | — | C− |
| Selkirk | 4,669 | 5 | — | A+ | — | C− |
| Innerleithen | 3,152 | 11 | — | 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.
Band D council tax in Langlee 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.
One state school is inside the town; places are handled by the local council.
Homes cost less than in most UK towns: the median sale over three years was £175,600, against £277,000 in the typical town in England and Wales. On cost of living it is the 99th most affordable of 296 Scottish towns.
Town in Scottish Borders, Scotland
Langlee is a locality of 3,530 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.
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.