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Band D council tax is £1,628. Home to 15,414 people, this town lies in West Lothian, Scotland.
Prices are modest for what you get (A): a typical home costs £175,900 and rent runs £908 a month. Schools do well: school leavers’ results beat 78% of Scottish towns. Its weakest subject is health (D) — life expectancy is 76.9 for men and 80 for women. Hazard risk is weaker too: 1.8% of homes at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea.
Figures: prices, HM Land Registry, the last three years · life expectancy, ONS · flood risk, SEPA. Broxburn has no Safety Grade, because Police Scotland doesn’t publish street-level crime, and so no overall grade. The other subjects are graded below.
The 3 things Broxburn 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 Broxburn is from typical. American towns are graded separately.
Broxburn has no Safety Grade, because Police Scotland doesn’t publish street-level crime, and so no overall grade. The other subjects are graded below.
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Historic Environment Scotland lists 16 buildings inside Broxburn’s locality, 1 of them in the top category, and 1 scheduled monument.
Explore the history →Museums, castles, gardens and days out in and near Broxburn. Best known first.
CastleNiddry Castle1 km outside town, to the northeast
Historic houseDundas Castle4.1 km outside town, to the northeast
CastleDuntarvie Castle3.1 km outside town, to the north
Art galleryJupiter Artland3.4 km outside town, to the southeast
Theme parkLost Shore Surf Resort3.1 km outside town, to the eastPhotos: each place’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Broxburn.
Behind the median of £175,900: 660 sales in Broxburn’s data zones, 2023 to 2025. 65% of households own their home, close to West Lothian’s towns (63%) and above Scotland’s towns (60%).
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.
Broxburn Academy’s results beat 84% of schools in Scotland like it. Below are two of its 5 schools, each with why it was picked. Between them, four primaries and one secondary teach 1,928 pupils in the town.
| School | Level | Pupils | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Nicholas Primary SchoolLargest primary schoolPrimary | Primary | 383 | – |
| Broxburn AcademyLargest secondary schoolSecondary | Secondary | 819 | A− |
79% of Broxburn’s residents described their health as good or very good in 2022, against 79% across West Lothian’s towns. At the census, 24% of people here had a disability, close to both West Lothian’s towns (24%) and Scotland’s towns (24%).
| Census 2022 | Broxburn | West Lothian | Scotland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Good or very good health | 79% | 79% | 78% |
| Bad or very bad health | 7% | 7% | 7.2% |
| Activities limited (health or disability) | 24% | 24% | 24% |
Scotland’s Census 2022, general health and disability · Public Health Scotland life expectancy by intermediate zone, 2020–24 · OGL · 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.
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.
For 27% of commuters, work was under 5 km away. Work in town: 14% of resident commuters. There are 0.7 jobs in Broxburn for each resident in work. At the census, 21% went to work on foot, by bike or by public transport, about level with West Lothian’s towns (20%) and below Scotland’s towns (27%).
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.
Broxburn’s listed buildings include Railway Viaduct, Broxburn-Newbridge Road, Category A. Of the town’s 16 listed buildings on Historic Environment Scotland’s list, Category A counts 1 and Category B 5. One garden or designed landscape lies in the town.
Historic Environment Scotland list, October 2026 · OGL
Broxburn has a median age of 43.1. 17% are under 15, about level with West Lothian’s towns (18%) and above Scotland’s towns (15%). Among adults, 26% have a degree.
51% women, 49% men
About 94 men for every 100 women. Across Scotland, 51% of residents are women.
| Broxburn | West Lothian | Scotland | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 17% | 18% | 15% |
| 15–24 | 10% | 11% | 12% |
| 25–44 | 25% | 26% | 26% |
| 45–64 | 29% | 29% | 27% |
| 65+ | 19% | 17% | 19% |
| No qualifications | 16% | 16% | 17% |
| Apprenticeship | 8.3% | 7.3% | 7.5% |
| Highers or similar | 11% | 11% | 11% |
| Degree level | 26% | 28% | 32% |
Scotland’s Census 2022 · West Lothian and Scotland: all residents of their towns · OGL
16 listed buildings in Broxburn, 1 of them in the top category.
Uphall Kirk. (St. Nicholas: Photo: Jim Smillie · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Oatridge Hotel, East Main Street: Photo: JThomas · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Kirkhill House: Photo: M J Richardson · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Geograph · Union Canal Bridge 25 Broxburn: Photo: Ian S · CC BY-SA 2.0
35 notable people were born in Broxburn.
Paul di Resta: Stefan Brending (2eight), CC BY-SA 3.0 de · John Kerr: David W. Carmichael, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Jamie MacDonald: User:Blethering Scot, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Shelley Kerr: hallison97photo, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Chris Innes: Camw, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Chris Higgins: Bully Wee at English Wikipedia, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Broxburn | 15,414 | — | — | A | — | D |
| Winchburgh | 4,290 | 2 | — | B+ | — | C+ |
| East Calder | 7,249 | 2.7 | — | B | — | C+ |
| Livingston | 55,798 | 3 | — | A | — | D |
| Mid Calder | 3,217 | 3.1 | — | A | — | B |
| Kirkliston | 5,607 | 3.6 | — | B− | — | B− |
| South Queensferry | 10,214 | 5.1 | — | B− | — | B |
| Linlithgow | 12,522 | 5.5 | — | A | — | B− |
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 Broxburn is £1,628 for 2026–27, less than in 94% of UK towns (council, county, police and fire). Your own bill depends on your home’s band; check it on GOV.UK.
GCSE results beat 78% of towns in England (Department for Education, Attainment 8).
Homes cost less than in most UK towns: the median sale over three years was £175,900, against £277,000 in the typical town in England and Wales. On cost of living it is the 125th most affordable of 296 Scottish towns.
Surface water isn’t included. Check a specific address on GOV.UK’s flood risk service.
Town in West Lothian, Scotland
Broxburn is a locality of 15,414 people, in the West Lothian 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.
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026 (ONS boundaries). Northern Ireland: Source: NISRA; contains Land & Property Services data and Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland information, © Crown copyright, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Scotland: contains National Records of Scotland data, Registers of Scotland data and SEPA data, © Crown copyright / © SEPA 2025, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.