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A town in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland, home to 6,573 people.
Housing is within reach: a typical home costs £142,400 and rent runs £790 a month. Add schools to its strengths (B+) — school leavers’ results beat two thirds of Scottish towns. Where it falls short is health (C−): life expectancy is 78.1 for men and 80.7 for women. Band D council tax is £1,682.
Figures: prices, HM Land Registry, the last three years · life expectancy, ONS. Duntocher and Hardgate has no Safety Grade, because Police Scotland doesn’t publish street-level crime, and so no overall grade. Every other subject still has a grade below.
The 3 things Duntocher and Hardgate 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 Duntocher and Hardgate is from typical. American towns are graded separately.
Duntocher and Hardgate has no Safety Grade, because Police Scotland doesn’t publish street-level crime, and so no overall grade. Every other subject still has a grade below.
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Historic Environment Scotland lists 3 buildings inside Duntocher and Hardgate’s locality, 1 of them in the second category, and 3 scheduled monuments.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Duntocher and Hardgate.
At the census, nearly a quarter of people here had a disability, below West Dunbartonshire’s towns (28%) and close to Scotland’s towns (24%). Of the 8 towns in West Dunbartonshire, Duntocher and Hardgate has the second-smallest share in bad or very bad health: 7.4%. 78% of people in Duntocher and Hardgate rate their own health good or very good.
| Census 2022 | Duntocher and Hardgate | West Dunbartonshire | Scotland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Good or very good health | 78% | 75% | 78% |
| Bad or very bad health | 7.4% | 9% | 7.2% |
| Activities limited (health or disability) | 24% | 28% | 24% |
Scotland’s Census 2022, general health and disability · Public Health Scotland life expectancy by intermediate zone, 2020–24 · OGL · Young towns look healthier on these answers, which aren’t adjusted for age; the Health Grade uses measures that are, such as life expectancy and early deaths.
Below is one of its 3 schools, and why it was picked. Some 599 pupils attend Duntocher and Hardgate’s three primaries.
| School | Level | Pupils | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Mary's Primary School (Duntocher)Largest primary schoolPrimary | Primary | 274 | – |
Children under 15 make up 15% of residents. 10% of the population is aged 15 to 24, near West Dunbartonshire’s towns (11%) and lower than Scotland’s towns (12%). Duntocher and Hardgate has a median age of 48.3 years.
52% women, 48% men
About 93 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.
| Duntocher and Hardgate | West Dunbartonshire | Scotland | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 15% | 16% | 15% |
| 15–24 | 10% | 11% | 12% |
| 25–44 | 21% | 24% | 26% |
| 45–64 | 29% | 29% | 27% |
| 65+ | 25% | 20% | 19% |
| No qualifications | 18% | 21% | 17% |
| Apprenticeship | 12% | 9.8% | 7.5% |
| Highers or similar | 11% | 11% | 11% |
| Degree level | 24% | 22% | 32% |
Scotland’s Census 2022 · West Dunbartonshire and Scotland: all residents of their towns · OGL
Social renters account for 15% of households. 7% rent privately, below West Dunbartonshire’s towns (8%) and Scotland’s towns (13%) alike. The median, £142,400, rests on 321 sales in Duntocher and Hardgate’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.
Scotland’s Census was taken on 20 March 2022, a year after England and Wales’s lockdown census; 32% of workers were mainly at home, and shares here are of those who travelled.
About 4% of its commuters stay in Duntocher and Hardgate for work. 80% of commuters drove to work at the census. Short trips to work, under 5 km: 36%, about level with West Dunbartonshire’s towns (37%) and below Scotland’s towns (44%). In 2026, 2.3% of 16 to 64s were claiming unemployment benefits.
Scotland’s Census 2022 (NRS), method of travel and distance to work · DWP claimant count · OGL
The heritage lists give each building’s grade but not its age, so we don’t say which is oldest.
Historic Environment Scotland’s list names 3 listed buildings in Duntocher and Hardgate: 1 Category B. Only one town in West Dunbartonshire has fewer listed buildings for its size than Duntocher and Hardgate.
Historic Environment Scotland list, October 2026 · OGL
Museums, castles, gardens and days out in and near Duntocher and Hardgate. Best known first.
MuseumClydebank Museum and Art Gallery1.9 km outside town, to the southAttractionAttractionAuchentoshan Distillery500 m outside town, to the westAttractionAttractionTitan Crane2.3 km outside town, to the southMuseumMuseumRenfrew Museum4.5 km outside town, to the southArt galleryArt galleryWoodland Art Gallery4.3 km outside town, to the southeastPhotos: each place’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Duntocher and Hardgate | 6,573 | — | — | B+ | — | C− |
| Faifley | 4,785 | 0.8 | — | A− | — | D− |
| Clydebank | 26,220 | 1.1 | — | A− | — | D− |
| Bowling and Old Kilpatrick | 4,761 | 1.7 | — | B+ | — | C |
| Erskine | 14,857 | 2.2 | — | A | — | C− |
| Bearsden | 28,507 | 3.1 | — | B− | — | A |
| Milngavie | 12,758 | 3.6 | — | A− | — | B |
| Renfrew | 23,812 | 3.7 | — | 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.
Homes cost less than in most UK towns: the median sale over three years was £142,400, against £277,000 in the typical town in England and Wales. On cost of living it is the 250th most affordable of 296 Scottish towns.
Band D council tax in Duntocher and Hardgate 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.
Town in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland
Duntocher and Hardgate is a locality of 6,573 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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