LawSouth Lanarkshire
Band D council tax is £1,468. 3,293 people call this town in South Lanarkshire, Scotland home.
Is Law a good place to live?
Prices are modest for what you get: a typical home costs £174,100 and rent runs £839 a month. Its schools fall short: school leavers’ results beat 14% of Scottish towns. Hazard risk is lower than in most UK towns (A). Health lags: men here can expect to live to 78.2, women to 83.1.
Figures: prices, HM Land Registry, the last three years · flood risk, SEPA · life expectancy, ONS. Law has no Safety Grade, because Police Scotland doesn’t publish street-level crime, and so no overall grade. Its other subjects still get grades, below.
What makes Law stand out
The 3 things Law does most differently from other towns.
How Law grades
Each subject compared with the 2,160 UK towns with an overall grade (schools within Scotland), ordered by how far Law is from typical. American towns are graded separately.
Law has no Safety Grade, because Police Scotland doesn’t publish street-level crime, and so no overall grade. Its other subjects still get grades, below.
How TownRatings grades towns →
The data
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Law.
Few households rent privately in Law: 6%, fewer than in both South Lanarkshire’s towns and Scotland’s towns
78% of households own their home, above both South Lanarkshire’s towns (69%) and Scotland’s towns (60%). Social renters account for 14% of households. 184 sales in Law’s data zones from 2023 to 2025 make up the median of £174,100.
Median sale price · 2023 to 2025, at early-2025 prices
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.
Law’s schools fall behind 86% of Scottish towns on results
The one school in town appears below. Its one primary school teaches 222 pupils.
| School | Level | Pupils | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law Primary SchoolLargest primary schoolPrimary | Primary | 222 | – |
Most people in Law (78%) report good or very good health
Poor health, by residents’ own account, affects 7.1% of the town. At the census, a quarter of people here had a disability, in line with South Lanarkshire’s towns (25%) and Scotland’s towns (24%).
| Census 2022 | Law | South Lanarkshire | Scotland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Good or very good health | 78% | 77% | 78% |
| Bad or very bad health | 7.1% | 7.9% | 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 · Census health answers are raw, so younger towns score better on them; for the Health Grade we use age-adjusted figures like life expectancy and early deaths.
Fewer commuters in Law walk, cycle or take the bus or train than in South Lanarkshire’s towns or Scotland’s towns: 10%
Scotland’s Census was taken on 20 March 2022, a year after England and Wales’s lockdown census; 28% of workers were mainly at home, and shares here are of those who travelled.
28% of workers worked mainly from home, below both South Lanarkshire’s towns (31%) and Scotland’s towns (31%). For 25% of commuters, work was under 5 km away. Of the commuters living in Law, 2% work in the town itself. There are 0.4 jobs in Law for each resident in work.
How commuters got to work · March 2022
Scotland’s Census 2022 (NRS), method of travel and distance to work · DWP claimant count · OGL
No listed buildings in Law
The heritage lists give each building’s grade but not its age, so we don’t say which is oldest.
Historic Environment Scotland’s list has no building inside Law’s locality.
Listed buildings by grade · Historic Environment Scotland
Historic Environment Scotland list, October 2026 · OGL
A typical mix of ages for Scotland
Young adults of 15 to 24 are just over one in ten residents, about level with South Lanarkshire’s towns (10%) and below Scotland’s towns (12%). Law has a median age of 44.2 years. Among adults, 28% have a degree.
Ages · share of residents
Qualifications · residents 16 and older
Women and men · all residents
51% women, 49% men
About an even split. Across Scotland, 51% of residents are women.
| Law | South Lanarkshire | Scotland | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 15% | 16% | 15% |
| 15–24 | 11% | 10% | 12% |
| 25–44 | 25% | 25% | 26% |
| 45–64 | 30% | 28% | 27% |
| 65+ | 19% | 20% | 19% |
| No qualifications | 18% | 18% | 17% |
| Apprenticeship | 9.4% | 8.4% | 7.5% |
| Highers or similar | 11% | 11% | 11% |
| Degree level | 28% | 28% | 32% |
Scotland’s Census 2022 · South Lanarkshire and Scotland: all residents of their towns · OGL
Everything we know about Law
Famous people from Law
4 notable people were born in Law.
Photo credits
Jake Hastie: Poolie22, CC BY-SA 4.0 · David Ferguson: Fragglerock52, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Ryan Finnie: User:Leec4674, CC BY-SA 3.0
Law’s neighbours
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Law | 3,293 | — | — | A+ | — | C− |
| Carluke | 14,120 | 2.2 | — | A+ | — | D |
| Wishaw | 30,190 | 2.5 | — | A+ | — | D− |
| Newmains | 5,364 | 2.7 | — | A+ | — | D− |
| Larkhall | 15,319 | 3.6 | — | A+ | — | D− |
| Cleland | 3,043 | 3.8 | — | A+ | — | D− |
| Carfin | 4,427 | 4.8 | — | A | — | D |
| Motherwell | 33,021 | 5 | — | 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.
Questions about Law
How much is council tax in Law?
Band D council tax in Law 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.
Are schools in Law good?
GCSE results trail 86% of towns in England (Department for Education, Attainment 8). One state school is inside the town; places are handled by the local council.
Is Law expensive to live in?
Homes cost less than in most UK towns: the median sale over three years was £174,100, against £277,000 in the typical town in England and Wales. On cost of living it is the 92nd most affordable of 296 Scottish towns.
About Law
Town in South Lanarkshire, Scotland
Law is a locality of 3,293 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
- Population
- 3,293 (Census 2022)
- Council
- South Lanarkshire
- Nation
- Scotland
- Area
- 0.4 sq mi (1 km²)
- NRS code
- S52000393
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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