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15,271 people call this town in South Ayrshire, Scotland home. Over-65s are 29% of the population.
Troon’s strongest is cost of living: a typical home costs £186,200 and rent runs £656 a month. Schools do well (B+): school leavers’ results beat 70% of Scottish towns. Hazard risk is higher than most: 7.1% of homes face a high or medium risk of river or sea flooding. Health is a weak point: men here can expect to live to 79.3, women to 82.7.
Figures: prices, HM Land Registry, the last three years · flood risk, SEPA · life expectancy, ONS. Troon has no Safety Grade, because Police Scotland doesn’t publish street-level crime, and so 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 Troon is from typical. American towns are graded separately.
Troon has no Safety Grade, because Police Scotland doesn’t publish street-level crime, and so no overall grade. Its other subjects are graded below.
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The 3 things Troon does most differently from other towns.
Historic Environment Scotland lists 66 buildings inside Troon’s locality, 2 of them in the top category.
Explore the history →66 listed buildings in Troon, 2 of them in the top category.
15 Craigend Road, Piersland House Hotel (Formerly Piersland Lodge), Including Summer Houses, Terrace and Columns: Photo: Thomas Nugent · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Geograph · Troon Railway Station: Photo: Geof Sheppard · CC BY-SA 4.0 · South Beach, Crosbie Tower Including Conservatory, Boundary Wall, Piers and Gates: Photo: Alan Reid · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Geograph · Harbour Road, Retail Premises and Dwellings, Former Harbour Office and Custom House, Including Rear Walls: Photo: Leslie Barrie · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Geograph
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Troon.
Social housing holds 13% of households, below South Ayrshire’s towns (19%) and Scotland’s towns (24%) alike. Just over one in ten households are private tenants. The median, £186,200, rests on 963 sales in Troon’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.
Between them, five primaries and one secondary teach 2,140 pupils in Troon. Below are two of its 6 schools, each with why it was picked.
| School | Level | Pupils | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Struthers Primary SchoolLargest primary schoolPrimary | Primary | 333 | – |
| Marr CollegeLargest secondary schoolSecondary | Secondary | 1,093 | B+ |
Young adults of 15 to 24 are 8% of residents, below both South Ayrshire’s towns (9.7%) and Scotland’s towns (12%). Line up the people of Troon by age and the one in the middle is 51.7. Among adults, 39% have a degree.
52% women, 48% men
About 91 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.
| Troon | South Ayrshire | Scotland | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 15% | 14% | 15% |
| 15–24 | 8% | 9.7% | 12% |
| 25–44 | 20% | 20% | 26% |
| 45–64 | 29% | 29% | 27% |
| 65+ | 29% | 27% | 19% |
| No qualifications | 13% | 18% | 17% |
| Apprenticeship | 7.3% | 8% | 7.5% |
| Highers or similar | 12% | 11% | 11% |
| Degree level | 39% | 31% | 32% |
Scotland’s Census 2022 · South Ayrshire and Scotland: all residents of their towns · OGL
A disability affects 24% of people in Troon. At the census, 79% of people in Troon called their health good or very good, above South Ayrshire’s towns (76%) and close to Scotland’s towns (78%).
| Census 2022 | Troon | South Ayrshire | Scotland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Good or very good health | 79% | 76% | 78% |
| Bad or very bad health | 6.4% | 7.7% | 7.2% |
| Activities limited (health or disability) | 24% | 27% | 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.
Scotland’s Census was taken on 20 March 2022, a year after England and Wales’s lockdown census; 32% of workers were mainly at home, and shares here are of those who travelled.
Jobs per working resident: 0.5. The car took four in five commuters, above South Ayrshire’s towns (78%) and Scotland’s towns (70%) alike. Unemployment benefit claims reached 2.4% of 16 to 64s in 2026. Work in town: 18% of resident commuters.
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.
Per 10,000 residents, Troon counts 43 listed buildings. Of the town’s 66 listed buildings on Historic Environment Scotland’s list, Category A counts 2 and Category B 27.
Historic Environment Scotland list, October 2026 · OGL
Museums, castles, gardens and days out in and near Troon. Best known first.
CastleDundonald Castle2.8 km outside town, to the northeast
CastleAuchans2 km outside town, to the northeast
MuseumScottish Maritime Museum4.5 km outside town, to the northMuseumMuseumBig Idea4.9 km outside town, to the northwestPhotos: each place’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
29 notable people were born in Troon.
Neill Collins: IJA, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Scott Manley: Christopher Michel, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Gordon Brown: Robyburns, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Peter Brown: Robyburns, CC BY-SA 4.0
Town in South Ayrshire, Scotland
Troon is a locality of 15,271 people, in the South Ayrshire 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Troon | 15,271 | — | — | A+ | — | C |
| Dundonald | 2,579 | 2.8 | — | A | — | C− |
| Dreghorn | 3,362 | 4 | — | A+ | — | D |
| Prestwick | 14,550 | 4.4 | — | A+ | — | C− |
| Irvine | 34,005 | 4.9 | — | A+ | — | D− |
| Crosshouse | 2,609 | 5.8 | — | A+ | — | D− |
| Ayr | 46,209 | 6.7 | — | A+ | — | D |
| Stevenston | 8,658 | 7.4 | — | 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.
Surface water isn’t included. Check a specific address on GOV.UK’s flood risk service.
Homes cost less than in most UK towns: the median sale over three years was £186,200, against £277,000 in the typical town in England and Wales. On cost of living it is the 39th most affordable of 296 Scottish towns.
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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