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With 6,181 residents, it is a town in South Lanarkshire, Scotland.
Homes are affordable: homes sell for a median £200,000, about 4.3 times local household income. Health is a weak point (C−): life expectancy is 77.8 for men and 80.2 for women. Its other grades sit near the middle: B− for schools and C+ for hazard risk. Council tax at Band D comes to £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, Uddingston has no Safety Grade, and so no overall grade. Its other subjects are graded below.
The 3 things Uddingston 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 Uddingston is from typical. American towns are graded separately.
Without street-level crime figures from Police Scotland, Uddingston has no Safety Grade, and so no overall grade. Its other subjects are graded below.
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Historic Environment Scotland lists 18 buildings inside Uddingston’s locality, 1 of them in the top category.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Uddingston.
15% live in social housing, below South Lanarkshire’s towns (20%) and Scotland’s towns (24%) alike. Owners make up 71% of households. 323 sales in Uddingston’s data zones from 2023 to 2025 make up the median of £200,000.
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.
Uddingston Grammar School’s results beat 75% of schools in Scotland like it. Its two primaries and one secondary have 2,040 pupils between them. Below are two of its 3 schools, each with why it was picked.
| School | Level | Pupils | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| St John The Baptist Primary SchoolLargest primary schoolPrimary | Primary | 331 | – |
| Uddingston Grammar SchoolLargest secondary schoolSecondary | Secondary | 1,389 | A− |
At the census, 80% of people in Uddingston called their health good or very good, above South Lanarkshire’s towns (77%) and Scotland’s towns (78%) alike. 23% of residents in Uddingston live with a disability. Poor health, by residents’ own account, affects 7.4% of the town.
| Census 2022 | Uddingston | South Lanarkshire | Scotland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Good or very good health | 80% | 77% | 78% |
| Bad or very bad health | 7.4% | 7.9% | 7.2% |
| Activities limited (health or disability) | 23% | 25% | 24% |
Scotland’s Census 2022, general health and disability · Public Health Scotland life expectancy by intermediate zone, 2020–24 · OGL · No age adjustment applies to these census answers, which flatter younger towns; the Health Grade’s measures, life expectancy and early deaths among them, do allow for age.
Scotland’s Census was taken on 20 March 2022, a year after England and Wales’s lockdown census; 38% of workers were mainly at home, and shares here are of those who travelled.
About 8% of its commuters stay in Uddingston for work. The town counts 1.3 jobs per working resident. Working mainly from home: 38% of workers, above both South Lanarkshire’s towns (31%) and Scotland’s towns (31%). The census found just over a fifth of commuters going to work on foot, by bike or by public transport.
Scotland’s Census 2022 (NRS), method of travel and distance to work · DWP claimant count · OGL
Over-65s are nearly a quarter of the population. Residents of Uddingston have a median age of 46.3. Degrees are held by 41% of adults, above both South Lanarkshire’s towns (28%) and Scotland’s towns (32%).
53% women, 47% men
About 90 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.
| Uddingston | South Lanarkshire | Scotland | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 15% | 16% | 15% |
| 15–24 | 8.1% | 10% | 12% |
| 25–44 | 25% | 25% | 26% |
| 45–64 | 27% | 28% | 27% |
| 65+ | 24% | 20% | 19% |
| No qualifications | 15% | 18% | 17% |
| Apprenticeship | 6.1% | 8.4% | 7.5% |
| Highers or similar | 9.7% | 11% | 11% |
| Degree level | 41% | 28% | 32% |
Scotland’s Census 2022 · South Lanarkshire and Scotland: all residents of their towns · OGL
The heritage lists give each building’s grade but not its age, so we don’t say which is oldest.
Uddingston’s listed buildings include Uddingston, Uddingston Viaduct, Category A. At the top of the list, 1 are Category A and 8 Category B. For its size, Uddingston has 29 listed buildings per 10,000 residents.
Historic Environment Scotland list, October 2026 · OGL
Museums, castles, gardens and days out in and near Uddingston. Best known first.
Castle · Historic Environment ScotlandBothwell Castle600 m outside town, to the southwest
Museum · National Trust for ScotlandDavid Livingstone Museum1.1 km outside town, to the south
Theme parkM&D's Theme Park2.3 km outside town, to the southeast
CastleGilbertfield Castle3.7 km outside town, to the southwest
MuseumLow Parks Museum4.2 km outside town, to the southeastPark or estatePark or estate · National Trust for ScotlandLivingstone Memorial Park1.2 km outside town, to the southPhotos: each place’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
11 notable people were born in Uddingston.
Patrick Doyle: British Council Qatar, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Hugh Gaffney: Chris McAndrew, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Uddingston | 6,181 | — | — | A+ | — | C− |
| Viewpark | 15,832 | 0.9 | — | A+ | — | D− |
| Bothwell | 7,002 | 1.1 | — | A | — | C+ |
| Blantyre | 16,534 | 2 | — | A+ | — | D− |
| Bellshill | 19,488 | 2.5 | — | A+ | — | D− |
| Bargeddie | 3,567 | 2.5 | — | A− | — | D |
| Cambuslang | 33,250 | 2.9 | — | A | — | D |
| Coatbridge | 42,256 | 3.2 | — | 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 Uddingston 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.
At the 2022 Census, 8.1% of Uddingston’s 6,181 residents were 15 to 24 and 24% were 65 or over, against 12% and 19% across Scotland’s towns.
Homes cost less than in most UK towns: the median sale over three years was £200,000, against £277,000 in the typical town in England and Wales. On cost of living it is the 116th most affordable of 296 Scottish towns.
Town in South Lanarkshire, Scotland
Uddingston is a locality of 6,181 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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