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A town of 6,587 in the Stirling council area, Scotland.
Police Scotland doesn’t publish street-level crime, so Bannockburn has no Safety Grade and, without it, no overall grade. Its other subjects are graded below. Its strongest subject is cost of living (A+): the 62nd most affordable of 296 Scottish towns: median sale £165,900, 3.2 years of area income; rent £930 a month. Its weakest is health (D): life expectancy 77.1 for men, 79.5 for women.
The 3 things Bannockburn 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 Bannockburn is from typical. American towns are graded separately.
Police Scotland doesn’t publish street-level crime, so Bannockburn has no Safety Grade and, without it, no overall grade. Its other subjects are graded below.
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Historic Environment Scotland lists 13 buildings inside Bannockburn’s locality, 11 of them in the second category.
Explore the history →Museums, castles, gardens and days out in and near Bannockburn. Best known first.
CastlePlean Castle4.3 km outside town, to the southeast
MuseumSmith Art Gallery & Museum2.8 km outside town, to the northwest
MuseumArgyll & Sutherland Highlanders Regimental HQ & Museum3.4 km outside town, to the northwestAbbey or prioryAbbey or priory · Historic Environment ScotlandCambuskenneth Abbey2.9 km outside town, to the northMuseumMuseum · National Trust for ScotlandThe Battle of Bannockburn Visitor Centre300 m outside town, to the westPhotos: each place’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Bannockburn.
305 sales in Bannockburn’s data zones from 2023 to 2025 make up the median of £165,900. 26% live in social housing, above Stirling council area’s towns (21%) and Scotland’s towns (24%) alike. Home ownership stands at nearly two thirds of households.
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.
One of its 2 schools is below, with the reason it’s listed. Some 550 pupils attend Bannockburn’s two primaries.
| School | Level | Pupils | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bannockburn Primary SchoolLargest primary schoolPrimary | Primary | 289 | – |
77% of Bannockburn’s residents described their health as good or very good at the census, lower than both Stirling council area’s towns (81%) and Scotland’s towns (78%). Its share in bad or very bad health, 7.9%, is the second highest of the 7 towns in Stirling council area. A disability affects 27% of people locally.
| Census 2022 | Bannockburn | Stirling council area | Scotland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Good or very good health | 77% | 81% | 78% |
| Bad or very bad health | 7.9% | 5.8% | 7.2% |
| Activities limited (health or disability) | 27% | 22% | 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.
The heritage lists give each building’s grade but not its age, so we don’t say which is oldest.
Bannockburn has 20 listed buildings for every 10,000 residents, lower than both Stirling council area’s towns (106) and Scotland’s towns (22). Category B covers 11 of them.
Historic Environment Scotland list, October 2026 · OGL
Scotland’s Census was taken on 20 March 2022, a year after England and Wales’s lockdown census; 31% of workers were mainly at home, and shares here are of those who travelled.
15% of commuters walked, cycled or took the bus or train at the census, below both Stirling council area’s towns (22%) and Scotland’s towns (27%). Unemployment benefit claims reached 2.2% of 16 to 64s in 2026. Of the commuters living in Bannockburn, 6% work in the town itself. The town counts 1.1 jobs per working resident.
Scotland’s Census 2022 (NRS), method of travel and distance to work · DWP claimant count · OGL
Degrees are held by a quarter of adults, below Stirling council area’s towns (38%) and Scotland’s towns (32%) alike. At 43.9, the median resident of Bannockburn sits in the middle of the age range. Over-65s are 19% of the population.
52% women, 48% men
About 94 men for every 100 women. Across Scotland, 51% of residents are women.
| Bannockburn | Stirling council area | Scotland | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 15% | 14% | 15% |
| 15–24 | 11% | 17% | 12% |
| 25–44 | 26% | 23% | 26% |
| 45–64 | 30% | 26% | 27% |
| 65+ | 19% | 19% | 19% |
| No qualifications | 19% | 13% | 17% |
| Apprenticeship | 9.6% | 6.2% | 7.5% |
| Highers or similar | 11% | 14% | 11% |
| Degree level | 25% | 38% | 32% |
Scotland’s Census 2022 · Stirling council area and Scotland: all residents of their towns · OGL
13 listed buildings in Bannockburn.
Old Bridge, Bannockburn: Photo: AllyD · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Bannockburn 33 Main Street Former James Wilson Academy: Photo: AllyD · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Allan Church Bannockburn: Photo: Richard Dorrell · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Bannockburn 9 New Road, View Vale: Photo: AllyD · CC BY-SA 4.0
8 notable people were born in Bannockburn.
Sir Hugh Paterson, 2nd Baronet: John Thomas Seton, Public domain · James Gilfillan: Zimmerman and Whitstruck, Public domain · Robert Jaffray: J.H. Beers & Co, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bannockburn | 6,587 | — | — | A+ | — | D |
| Fallin | 2,769 | 1.9 | — | A+ | — | D− |
| Cowie | 2,708 | 2 | — | A+ | — | D |
| Stirling | 38,590 | 2.1 | — | A+ | — | D |
| Dunipace | 2,563 | 4.2 | — | A− | — | D |
| Tullibody | 8,515 | 4.3 | — | A− | — | D− |
| Bridge of Allan | 4,744 | 4.4 | — | A− | — | A− |
| Menstrie | 2,834 | 4.7 | — | B | — | C |
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.
Homes cost less than in most UK towns: the median sale over three years was £165,900, against £277,000 in the typical town in England and Wales. On cost of living it is the 62nd most affordable of 296 Scottish towns.
Band D council tax in Bannockburn is £1,753 for 2026–27, less than in 86% of UK towns (council, county, police and fire). Your own bill depends on your home’s band; check it on GOV.UK.
Surface water isn’t included. Check a specific address on GOV.UK’s flood risk service.
Town in Stirling, Scotland
Bannockburn is a locality of 6,587 people, in the Stirling 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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