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Band D council tax is £1,468. In South Lanarkshire, Scotland, this town has 5,591 residents.
Stonehouse’s strongest is cost of living — homes sell for a median £175,300, about 3.8 times local household income. Residents’ health trails most towns: life expectancy 77 for men, 79.9 for women. Natural hazards are less of a worry than in most UK towns (A). It also trails on schools: school leavers’ results beat 31% of Scottish towns.
Figures: prices, HM Land Registry, the last three years · life expectancy, ONS · flood risk, SEPA. Without street-level crime figures from Police Scotland, Stonehouse has no Safety Grade, and so no overall grade. Every other subject still has a grade below.
The 3 things Stonehouse 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 Stonehouse is from typical. American towns are graded separately.
Without street-level crime figures from Police Scotland, Stonehouse has no Safety Grade, and so no overall grade. Every other subject still has a grade below.
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Historic Environment Scotland lists 4 buildings inside Stonehouse’s locality, 2 of them in the second category.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Stonehouse.
Social housing holds 15% of households, below both South Lanarkshire’s towns (20%) and Scotland’s towns (24%). Nearly one in ten households rent privately. 361 sales in Stonehouse’s data zones from 2023 to 2025 make up the median of £175,300.
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.
Some 416 pupils attend Stonehouse’s two primaries. Of its 2 schools, one is shown below, with the reason.
| School | Level | Pupils | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Newfield Primary SchoolLargest primary schoolPrimary | Primary | 216 | – |
Poor health, by residents’ own account, affects 7.6% of the town.
| Census 2022 | Stonehouse | South Lanarkshire | Scotland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Good or very good health | 76% | 77% | 78% |
| Bad or very bad health | 7.6% | 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 · Self-reported health favours young towns, since these answers ignore age; the Health Grade leans on age-adjusted measures 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; 27% of workers were mainly at home, and shares here are of those who travelled.
At the census, just over one in ten commuters walked, cycled or took the bus or train. Short trips to work, under 5 km: 15%, lower than both South Lanarkshire’s towns (31%) and Scotland’s towns (44%). Home was the main workplace for 27% of workers at the census. About 6% of its commuters stay in Stonehouse for work.
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.
Stonehouse has 4 listed buildings on Historic Environment Scotland’s list: 2 Category B. It has 7 listed buildings for every 10,000 residents.
Historic Environment Scotland list, October 2026 · OGL
17% are under 15, close to South Lanarkshire’s towns (16%) and above Scotland’s towns (15%). People aged 15 to 24 make up 9.8% of the town. Typical age in Stonehouse: 44.4, the median.
52% women, 48% men
About 92 men for every 100 women. Across Scotland, 51% of residents are women.
| Stonehouse | South Lanarkshire | Scotland | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 17% | 16% | 15% |
| 15–24 | 9.8% | 10% | 12% |
| 25–44 | 25% | 25% | 26% |
| 45–64 | 29% | 28% | 27% |
| 65+ | 21% | 20% | 19% |
| No qualifications | 19% | 18% | 17% |
| Apprenticeship | 11% | 8.4% | 7.5% |
| Highers or similar | 10% | 11% | 11% |
| Degree level | 24% | 28% | 32% |
Scotland’s Census 2022 · South Lanarkshire and Scotland: all residents of their towns · OGL
7 notable people were born in Stonehouse.
Archibald Mathies: U.S. Air Force Historical Support Division, Public domain
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stonehouse | 5,591 | — | — | A+ | — | D |
| Larkhall | 15,319 | 3 | — | A+ | — | D− |
| Kirkmuirhill and Blackwood | 4,351 | 3.1 | — | A+ | — | C− |
| Strathaven | 8,341 | 3.2 | — | A | — | C+ |
| Lesmahagow | 4,259 | 5.6 | — | A+ | — | D− |
| Law | 3,293 | 5.7 | — | A+ | — | C− |
| Hamilton | 55,171 | 5.8 | — | A+ | — | D |
| Wishaw | 30,190 | 6.2 | — | 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 Stonehouse 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.
Homes cost less than in most UK towns: the median sale over three years was £175,300, against £277,000 in the typical town in England and Wales. On cost of living it is the 95th most affordable of 296 Scottish towns.
Stonehouse has 2 state schools; places are handled by the local council.
Town in South Lanarkshire, Scotland
Stonehouse is a locality of 5,591 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.
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.