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The large town has 33,250 residents and lies in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. Only 13% of residents are 65 or over.
Cambuslang’s strongest subject is cost of living — homes sell for a median £237,900, about 5.1 times local household income. Where it falls short is health: life expectancy 76.8 for men, 81.2 for women. Elsewhere it is close to typical: B− for schools and C+ for hazard risk. Band D council tax is £1,468.
Figures: prices, HM Land Registry, the last three years · life expectancy, ONS · flood risk, SEPA. Without street-level crime figures from Police Scotland, Cambuslang has no Safety Grade, and so no overall grade. Its other subjects still get grades, below.
The 3 things Cambuslang 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 Cambuslang is from typical. American towns are graded separately.
Without street-level crime figures from Police Scotland, Cambuslang has no Safety Grade, and so no overall grade. Its other subjects still get grades, below.
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Historic Environment Scotland lists 15 buildings inside Cambuslang’s locality, 11 of them in the second category.
Explore the history →Museums, castles, gardens and days out in and near Cambuslang. Best known first.
CathedralGlasgow Cathedral4.2 km outside town, to the northwest
Big drawArt galleryGallery of Modern Art4.8 km outside town, to the northwest · 596K visitors a year
Castle · Historic Environment ScotlandBothwell Castle1.7 km outside town, to the east
CathedralSt Andrew's Cathedral4.5 km outside town, to the northwest
MuseumPeople's Palace3.4 km outside town, to the northwest · 290K visitors a year
Museum · National Trust for ScotlandDavid Livingstone Museum2.7 km outside town, to the eastPhotos: each place’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Cambuslang.
Owners make up 71% of households, above South Lanarkshire’s towns (69%) and Scotland’s towns (60%) alike. Private rents average £839 a month across the South Lanarkshire council area. 2,137 sales in Cambuslang’s data zones from 2023 to 2025 make up the median of £237,900.
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.
Of its 12 schools, two are shown below, each with the reason. Some 5,089 pupils attend Cambuslang’s nine primaries and two secondaries.
| School | Level | Pupils | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Newton Farm Primary SchoolLargest primary schoolPrimary | Primary | 708 | – |
| Trinity High SchoolLargest secondary schoolSecondary | Secondary | 1,270 | B+ |
At the census, 22% of people here had a disability, lower than both South Lanarkshire’s towns (25%) and Scotland’s towns (24%). Asked at the census, 81% of residents of Cambuslang said they were in good or very good health. 6.9% of residents report bad or very bad health.
| Census 2022 | Cambuslang | South Lanarkshire | Scotland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Good or very good health | 81% | 77% | 78% |
| Bad or very bad health | 6.9% | 7.9% | 7.2% |
| Activities limited (health or disability) | 22% | 25% | 24% |
Scotland’s Census 2022, general health and disability · Public Health Scotland life expectancy by intermediate zone, 2020–24 · OGL · 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.
Scotland’s Census was taken on 20 March 2022, a year after England and Wales’s lockdown census; 33% of workers were mainly at home, and shares here are of those who travelled.
Walking, cycling and public transport carried nearly a fifth of commuters at the census. About 8% of its commuters stay in Cambuslang for work. This South Lanarkshire town counts 0.4 jobs per working resident.
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 11 of them. Relative to its size, Cambuslang keeps 5 listed buildings per 10,000 residents.
Historic Environment Scotland list, October 2026 · OGL
People 65 and over make up 13% of the town, lower than both South Lanarkshire’s towns (20%) and Scotland’s towns (19%). The middle age in Cambuslang is 38.5. The share aged 15 to 24 is 11%.
51% women, 49% men
About 95 men for every 100 women. Across Scotland, 51% of residents are women.
| Cambuslang | South Lanarkshire | Scotland | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 20% | 16% | 15% |
| 15–24 | 11% | 10% | 12% |
| 25–44 | 30% | 25% | 26% |
| 45–64 | 26% | 28% | 27% |
| 65+ | 13% | 20% | 19% |
| No qualifications | 17% | 18% | 17% |
| Apprenticeship | 7.9% | 8.4% | 7.5% |
| Highers or similar | 11% | 11% | 11% |
| Degree level | 30% | 28% | 32% |
Scotland’s Census 2022 · South Lanarkshire and Scotland: all residents of their towns · OGL
15 listed buildings in Cambuslang.
Greenlees Road and 2 Tabernacle Street, Former Cambuslang Public School: Photo: Iroberts696 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Cairns Road, Cambuslang Old Parish Church Including Churchyard, Boundary Walls, Gates and Gatepiers: Photo: Iroberts696 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Clydeford Road, Dovecot at Cambuslang Golf Course: Photo: Iroberts696 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Cambuslang, 13 Tabernacle Lane, Masonic Hall: Photo: Jim Campbell · CC BY-SA 2.0
43 notable people were born in Cambuslang.
Midge Ure: Sven Mandel, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Claudius Buchanan: Unidentified engraver, Public domain · Joseph Sullivan: Bassano Ltd, Public domain · Mike Watson, Baron Watson of Invergowrie: ©House of Lords / photography by Roger Harris, CC BY 3.0
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cambuslang | 33,250 | — | — | A | — | D |
| Rutherglen | 31,185 | 2.1 | — | A+ | — | D− |
| Blantyre | 16,534 | 2.8 | — | A+ | — | D− |
| Uddingston | 6,181 | 2.9 | — | A+ | — | C− |
| Bothwell | 7,002 | 3.3 | — | A | — | C+ |
| Viewpark | 15,832 | 3.6 | — | A+ | — | D− |
| East Kilbride | 76,626 | 4.1 | — | A+ | — | C− |
| Bargeddie | 3,567 | 4.2 | — | 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.
Band D council tax in Cambuslang is £1,468 for 2026–27, less than in 99% of UK towns (council, county, police and fire). Your own bill depends on your home’s band; check it on GOV.UK.
A young town. At the 2022 Census, 20% of residents were under 15 and 30% were 25 to 44, against 15% and 26% across Scotland’s towns; only 13% were 65 or over.
Homes cost less than in most UK towns: the median sale over three years was £237,900, against £277,000 in the typical town in England and Wales. On cost of living it is the 172nd most affordable of 296 Scottish towns.
Large town in South Lanarkshire, Scotland
Cambuslang is a locality of 33,250 people, in the South Lanarkshire 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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