Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
A town of 8,797 in the Stirling council area, Scotland.
Police Scotland doesn’t publish street-level crime, so Dunblane has no Safety Grade and, without it, no overall grade. Its other subjects are graded below. Its strongest subject is schools (A+): school leavers’ results beat 98% of Scottish towns. The median home sold for £283,200 in the last three years, 5.4 times what households in the Stirling council area earn in a year.
The 3 things Dunblane 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 Dunblane is from typical. American towns are graded separately.
Police Scotland doesn’t publish street-level crime, so Dunblane has no Safety Grade and, without it, no overall grade. Its other subjects are graded below.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Historic Environment Scotland lists 82 buildings inside Dunblane’s locality, 6 of them in the top category, and 2 scheduled monuments.
The archive holds 2 old photos and postcards going back to 1890.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Dunblane.
Dunblane High School’s results beat 94% of schools in Scotland like it. Two of its 4 schools are below, each with why it’s listed. The grade uses the secondaries its children go to; Scotland publishes no primary results by school.
| School | Level | Pupils | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dunblane Primary SchoolLargest primary schoolPrimary | Primary | 347 | – |
| Dunblane High SchoolLargest secondary schoolSecondary | Secondary | 853 | A |
In the comparison, Dunblane comes above both Stirling council area’s towns (63%) and Scotland’s towns (60%). Private renters make up 7% of households. Dunblane is the second most expensive of the 7 towns in the Stirling council area, at £283,200.
Registers of Scotland data-zone sale prices · Scottish Government council tax · Scotland’s Census 2022 tenure · OGL
Scotland’s Census was taken on 20 March 2022, a year after England and Wales’s lockdown census; 41% of workers were mainly at home, and shares here are of those who travelled.
For Dunblane, that is below both Stirling council area’s towns (42%) and Scotland’s towns (44%). 41% of workers worked mainly from home at the census.
Scotland’s Census 2022 (NRS), method of travel and distance to work · DWP claimant count · OGL
Dunblane sits above both Stirling council area’s towns (81%) and Scotland’s towns (78%) on this measure. Dunblane’s share in bad or very bad health, 3.7%, is the lowest of the 7 towns in Stirling council area. These answers aren’t adjusted for age, so young towns look healthier; the Health Grade uses age-adjusted measures, including life expectancy and early deaths.
| Census 2022 | Dunblane | Stirling council area | Scotland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Good or very good health | 87% | 81% | 78% |
| Bad or very bad health | 3.7% | 5.8% | 7.2% |
| Activities limited (health or disability) | 18% | 22% | 24% |
Scotland’s Census 2022, general health and disability · Public Health Scotland life expectancy by intermediate zone, 2020–24 · OGL
The heritage lists give each building’s grade but not its age, so we don’t say which is oldest.
Dunblane has 82 listed buildings on Historic Environment Scotland’s list: 6 Category A, 27 Category B. For its size, Dunblane has 93 listed buildings per 10,000 residents, above both Stirling council area’s towns (69) and Scotland’s towns (22).
Historic Environment Scotland list, October 2026 · OGL
That puts Dunblane above both Stirling council area’s towns (38%) and Scotland’s towns (32%). 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24. Half the people of Dunblane are older than 48.3.
51% women, 49% men
About 94 men for every 100 women. Across Scotland, 51% of residents are women.
| Dunblane | Stirling council area | Scotland | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 17% | 14% | 15% |
| 15–24 | 12% | 17% | 12% |
| 25–44 | 17% | 23% | 26% |
| 45–64 | 32% | 26% | 27% |
| 65+ | 24% | 19% | 19% |
| No qualifications | 8.3% | 13% | 17% |
| Apprenticeship | 4.3% | 6.2% | 7.5% |
| Highers or similar | 11% | 14% | 11% |
| Degree level | 55% | 38% | 32% |
Scotland’s Census 2022 · Stirling council area and Scotland: all residents of their towns · OGL
Museums, castles, gardens and days out in and near Dunblane. Best known first.
CathedralDunblane Cathedralin town
MuseumDunblane Museumin town
CastleDoune Castle4.2 km outside town, to the west
Wildlife parkBlair Drummond Safari Park4.1 km outside town, to the southwestMuseumMuseumLeighton Libraryin townCastleCastleKilbryde Castle2.4 km outside town, to the northwestPhotos: each place’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
82 listed buildings in Dunblane, 6 of them in the top category.
Cathedral Square, Dunblane Cathedral (Cathedral Church of St Blaan and St Laurence including churchyard, boundary wall and Riccarton's stile) excluding scheduled monument SM90109, Dunblane: Photo: Otter · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Queen Victoria School, Dunblane: Photo: Ross Goodman · CC BY 2.0 · Station Road, Dunblane Railway Station Including Original Footbridge: Photo: Geof Sheppard · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Stirling Road, Formerly the Railway Hotel: Photo: Cathedralcityestates · CC BY-SA 4.0
17 notable people were born in Dunblane.
Dougie MacLean: Palak Dudani, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Ebenezer Bryce: George A. Grant, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dunblane | 8,797 | — | — | A | — | B+ |
| Bridge of Allan | 4,744 | 2.8 | — | A− | — | A− |
| Menstrie | 2,834 | 5.2 | — | B | — | C |
| Stirling | 38,590 | 5.2 | — | A+ | — | D |
| Tullibody | 8,515 | 6.4 | — | A− | — | D− |
| Alva | 4,820 | 6.9 | — | A− | — | D |
| Fallin | 2,769 | 6.9 | — | A+ | — | D− |
| Bannockburn | 6,587 | 7.2 | — | 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.
GCSE results beat 98% of towns in England (Department for Education, Attainment 8).
That is 3.8 times the typical town in England and Wales for its size. It also has 2 scheduled monuments.
Band D council tax in Dunblane 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.
Town in Stirling, Scotland
Dunblane is a locality of 8,797 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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