Carluke
Town · 13,975 residents
63Good
Good · better than 7 in 10 towns
Check Local Score out of 100 · 60 is typical for the country
Each arc is a topic, coloured by its score
What’s good
- 79% of residents live within five minutes of a park
Check before you view
- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
- Road noise reaches 50% of the area
- Transport scores 31, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Map outline: Official settlement boundary (National Records of Scotland)
Is Carluke a good place to live?
Carluke scores 63/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for environment (78).
It scores lowest on transport (31).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Carluke in Scotland, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Carluke
Carluke sits on that stretch of South Lanarkshire where sandstone terraces and post-war semis run together along a high street that still does its own thing rather than performing for anyone passing through. It's the kind of town where you notice the age of the place before you notice its ambitions — a working, settled town rather than a commuter dormitory or a showpiece, and the streets read that way: practical shopfronts, parked cars outside pebble-dashed bungalows, nothing dressed up.
The numbers back up that impression of steadiness more than dynamism. A median house price a little over £181,000 is modest against Scotland as a whole, and the three-year drift has been gently upward rather than dramatic — enough that the area's housing grade sits comfortably ahead of its overall standing, with the trend marked as improving rather than static. Council tax here also runs noticeably below the Scottish median Band D figure, which tends to matter more to the people actually living somewhere than any amount of survey data. The population skews older than both the regional and national average — median age 46 against a Scotland-wide 42.8 — and at over 2,200 people per square kilometre it's denser than the national picture too, which together suggest a town of established households rather than one filling up with newcomers.
Green space is genuinely part of daily life rather than an afterthought: over fifty separate green spaces across nearly 57 hectares gives you room to walk a dog or let a kid loose without needing to drive anywhere, and it's consistent with an environment grade that sits at the top of the town's scorecard. Full-fibre broadband reaches a solid majority of properties, which matters more than it used to now that home working is normal rather than novel. Where the picture gets more interesting is safety — the town carries a strong overall safety grade, but it's tagged as a worsening trend, the one instance where the letter and the direction pull against each other. It's not a red flag so much as a thread worth watching rather than ignoring.