Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
It has 48 listed buildings, 0 of them in the top category. The town, home to 8,341 people, lies in South Lanarkshire, Scotland.
Strathaven’s best grade is for schools — school leavers’ results beat 97% of Scottish towns. Buying a home costs less than in most towns: the median home sold for £263,600, 5.7 years of area income. Its other grades sit near the middle: C+ for health, B− for walkability and B− for hazard risk. Band D council tax is £1,468.
Figures: prices, HM Land Registry, the last three years · life expectancy, ONS · commuting, Census 2022 · flood risk, SEPA. Police Scotland doesn’t publish street-level crime, so Strathaven has no Safety Grade and, without it, no overall grade. The other subjects are graded below.
The 3 things Strathaven 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 Strathaven is from typical. American towns are graded separately.
Police Scotland doesn’t publish street-level crime, so Strathaven has no Safety Grade and, without it, no overall grade. The other subjects are graded below.
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Historic Environment Scotland lists 48 buildings inside Strathaven’s locality, 20 of them in the second category, and 1 scheduled monument.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Strathaven.
Some 1,805 pupils attend Strathaven’s three primaries and one secondary. Strathaven Academy’s results beat 94% of schools in Scotland like it. Of its 4 schools, two are shown below, each with the reason.
| School | Level | Pupils | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kirklandpark Primary SchoolLargest primary schoolPrimary | Primary | 378 | – |
| Strathaven AcademyLargest secondary schoolSecondary | Secondary | 993 | A |
Private renters make up 8% of households, below both South Lanarkshire’s towns (10%) and Scotland’s towns (13%). Strathaven is the most expensive of the 16 towns in South Lanarkshire: its median sale is £263,600. The owner-occupied share of households is 83%.
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.
The heritage lists give each building’s grade but not its age, so we don’t say which is oldest.
For its size, Strathaven has 58 listed buildings per 10,000 residents. The town counts 48 listed buildings on the national list (Historic Environment Scotland): 20 Category B. The national list protects one ancient monument here.
Historic Environment Scotland list, October 2026 · OGL
5.1% of residents described their health as bad or very bad, lower than both South Lanarkshire’s towns (7.9%) and Scotland’s towns (7.2%). Disability touches 20% of Strathaven’s population.
| Census 2022 | Strathaven | South Lanarkshire | Scotland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Good or very good health | 83% | 77% | 78% |
| Bad or very bad health | 5.1% | 7.9% | 7.2% |
| Activities limited (health or disability) | 20% | 25% | 24% |
Scotland’s Census 2022, general health and disability · Public Health Scotland life expectancy by intermediate zone, 2020–24 · OGL · These shares come straight from the census, without allowing for age, and young towns benefit; the Health Grade instead weighs 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.
86% of commuters drove to work at the census. Work in town: 13% of resident commuters. For every resident in work, Strathaven has 0.5 jobs.
Scotland’s Census 2022 (NRS), method of travel and distance to work · DWP claimant count · OGL
Under 15: nearly a fifth of residents. One in ten residents are 15 to 24, lower than both South Lanarkshire’s towns (10%) and Scotland’s towns (12%). Retirement age and beyond: 22% of residents are 65 or older. Ages in Strathaven split evenly at 45.4: half are older, half younger.
51% women, 49% men
About 95 men for every 100 women. Across Scotland, 51% of residents are women.
| Strathaven | South Lanarkshire | Scotland | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 19% | 16% | 15% |
| 15–24 | 9.7% | 10% | 12% |
| 25–44 | 22% | 25% | 26% |
| 45–64 | 29% | 28% | 27% |
| 65+ | 22% | 20% | 19% |
| No qualifications | 12% | 18% | 17% |
| Apprenticeship | 6.9% | 8.4% | 7.5% |
| Highers or similar | 11% | 11% | 11% |
| Degree level | 42% | 28% | 32% |
Scotland’s Census 2022 · South Lanarkshire and Scotland: all residents of their towns · OGL
48 listed buildings in Strathaven.
Strathaven , Kirk Street and Thomson Street, Former Strathaven Public Hall: Photo: edward mcmaihin · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Strathaven, 8 Threestanes Road, John Hastie Museum Including Boundary Walls and Gatepiers: Photo: G Laird · CC BY-SA 2.0
11 notable people were born in Strathaven.
Mary Nimmo Moran: Napoleon Sarony, Public domain · James Fowler: Work of the Australian Government, Public domain · Coutts Crawford: Photographer unidentified, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Strathaven | 8,341 | — | — | A | — | C+ |
| Stonehouse | 5,591 | 3.2 | — | A+ | — | D |
| Larkhall | 15,319 | 5.5 | — | A+ | — | D− |
| Kirkmuirhill and Blackwood | 4,351 | 5.7 | — | A+ | — | C− |
| Hamilton | 55,171 | 6.2 | — | A+ | — | D |
| East Kilbride | 76,626 | 7.2 | — | A+ | — | C− |
| Lesmahagow | 4,259 | 7.6 | — | A+ | — | D− |
| Blantyre | 16,534 | 8 | — | 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.
GCSE results beat 97% of towns in England (Department for Education, Attainment 8).
That is 2.4 times the typical town in England and Wales for its size. It also has 1 scheduled monument.
Band D council tax in Strathaven 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.
Town in South Lanarkshire, Scotland
Strathaven is a locality of 8,341 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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