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It is a large town of 26,220 residents in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland. Band D council tax is £1,682.
Clydebank’s strongest subject is walkability: on the way to work, 33% walk, cycle or take a bus or train. Buying a home costs less than in most towns: homes sell for a median £128,100, about 3.3 times local household income. Health is its weak spot (D−): life expectancy 72.3 for men, 78.5 for women. It also trails on hazard risk — 1.5% of homes face a high or medium risk of river or sea flooding.
Figures: commuting, Census 2022 · prices, HM Land Registry, the last three years · life expectancy, ONS · flood risk, SEPA. Police Scotland publishes no street-level crime, which leaves Clydebank without a Safety Grade or an overall grade. Its other subjects are graded below.
The 3 things Clydebank 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 Clydebank is from typical. American towns are graded separately.
Police Scotland publishes no street-level crime, which leaves Clydebank without a Safety Grade or an overall grade. Its other subjects are graded below.
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Historic Environment Scotland lists 13 buildings inside Clydebank’s locality, 1 of them in the top category, and 4 scheduled monuments.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Clydebank.
Just over one in ten residents report bad or very bad health. At the census, 31% of people here had a disability, above both West Dunbartonshire’s towns (28%) and Scotland’s towns (24%). Self-reported good health: 71% of Clydebank’s residents.
| Census 2022 | Clydebank | West Dunbartonshire | Scotland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Good or very good health | 71% | 75% | 78% |
| Bad or very bad health | 11% | 9% | 7.2% |
| Activities limited (health or disability) | 31% | 28% | 24% |
Scotland’s Census 2022, general health and disability · Public Health Scotland life expectancy by intermediate zone, 2020–24 · OGL · Because the census answers ignore age, a younger population lifts them; that is why the Health Grade is built on age-adjusted measures like life expectancy and early deaths.
Of its 12 schools, two are shown below, each with the reason. Between them, eight primaries and two secondaries teach 4,268 pupils in Clydebank.
| School | Level | Pupils | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Eunan's Primary SchoolLargest primary schoolPrimary | Primary | 340 | – |
| St Peter the Apostle High SchoolLargest secondary schoolSecondary | Secondary | 1,450 | C− |
Scotland’s Census was taken on 20 March 2022, a year after England and Wales’s lockdown census; 29% of workers were mainly at home, and shares here are of those who travelled.
Clydebank counts 1.2 jobs per working resident. About 28% of its commuters stay in Clydebank for work. The car took nearly two thirds of commuters, lower than both West Dunbartonshire’s towns (73%) and Scotland’s towns (70%).
Scotland’s Census 2022 (NRS), method of travel and distance to work · DWP claimant count · OGL
Private renters make up 7% of households, below both West Dunbartonshire’s towns (8%) and Scotland’s towns (13%). Households that own their home make up 45%. The median, £128,100, rests on 973 sales in Clydebank’s data zones from 2023 to 2025.
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.
At the top of the list, 1 are Category A and 9 Category B. The national list protects 4 ancient monuments in Clydebank. Relative to its size, Clydebank keeps 5 listed buildings per 10,000 residents, lower than both West Dunbartonshire’s towns (22) and Scotland’s towns (22).
Historic Environment Scotland list, October 2026 · OGL
Half of Clydebank is older than 42.9, half younger. 19% of residents have reached 65. Children under 15 make up 16%, close to both West Dunbartonshire’s towns (16%) and Scotland’s towns (15%).
51% women, 49% men
About 94 men for every 100 women. Across Scotland, 51% of residents are women.
| Clydebank | West Dunbartonshire | Scotland | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 16% | 16% | 15% |
| 15–24 | 11% | 11% | 12% |
| 25–44 | 26% | 24% | 26% |
| 45–64 | 29% | 29% | 27% |
| 65+ | 19% | 20% | 19% |
| No qualifications | 24% | 21% | 17% |
| Apprenticeship | 9.9% | 9.8% | 7.5% |
| Highers or similar | 9.7% | 11% | 11% |
| Degree level | 18% | 22% | 32% |
Scotland’s Census 2022 · West Dunbartonshire and Scotland: all residents of their towns · OGL
Museums, castles, gardens and days out in and near Clydebank. Best known first.
MuseumClydebank Museum and Art Galleryin town
CathedralSt Mirin's Cathedral4.9 km outside town, to the southAttractionAttractionAuchentoshan Distilleryin townAttractionAttractionTitan Cranein townMuseumMuseumRenfrew Museum1.2 km outside town, to the southMuseumMuseumVictoria Park Fossil Grove3.3 km outside town, to the southeastPhotos: each place’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
13 listed buildings in Clydebank, 1 of them in the top category.
Municipal Buildings Dumbarton Road: Photo: Darrin Antrobus · CC BY-SA 2.0 · 2 Sylvania Way South/Chalmers Street, Central Warehouse (Co-Op Department Store): Photo: Thomas Nugent · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Bruce Street, Former Public Baths Facade and Swimming Pool: Photo: JamesGangel · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Forth and Clyde Canal: Linnvale - Duntreath Avenue: Photo: Valbiss · CC BY-SA 4.0
49 notable people were born in Clydebank.
Willie McLean: St. Louis Post-Dispatch photographer, Public domain · James Reston: Rochester Institute of Technology, Public domain · Martin Docherty-Hughes: Chris McAndrew, CC BY 3.0 · Ian McHarg: PBS, Public domain · Kevin Bridges: Goodreg3, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Austin McCann: Cammy_ayr_utd1910 (Uploads), CC0
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clydebank | 26,220 | — | — | A− | — | D− |
| Duntocher and Hardgate | 6,573 | 1.1 | — | B+ | — | C− |
| Faifley | 4,785 | 1.4 | — | A− | — | D− |
| Erskine | 14,857 | 1.7 | — | A | — | C− |
| Bowling and Old Kilpatrick | 4,761 | 2.1 | — | B+ | — | C |
| Renfrew | 23,812 | 2.6 | — | A | — | D |
| Bearsden | 28,507 | 3 | — | B− | — | A |
| Bishopton | 10,048 | 3.9 | — | B− | — | A− |
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 £128,100, against £277,000 in the typical town in England and Wales. On cost of living it is the 241st most affordable of 296 Scottish towns.
Band D council tax in Clydebank is £1,682 for 2026–27, less than in 92% 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.
Large town in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland
Clydebank is a locality of 26,220 people, in the West Dunbartonshire 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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