Chapelhall
Village · 6,721 residents
47Fair
Fair · better than 2 in 10 villages
Check Local Score out of 100 · 60 is typical for the country
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- Road noise reaches 70% of the area
- Food & drink scores 10, below the typical 60
- Transport scores 31, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Map outline: Official settlement boundary (National Records of Scotland)
Is Chapelhall a good place to live?
Chapelhall scores 47/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as fair — 60 is typical for the country.
No topic reaches "very good" (70+); its best is property market (69).
It scores lowest on food & drink (10) and transport (31).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Chapelhall in Scotland, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Chapelhall
Chapelhall reads as a working village that got absorbed into North Lanarkshire's commuter belt without losing its own outline: low-rise terraces and semis, a scatter of green space rather than one big park, and a density that's noticeably tighter than the Scottish average — this is a place built up, not spread out.
There's no rail station or named school in the picture here, which itself tells you something: this is a village you'd navigate by road and by the two schools it does have, not by a platform announcement. With a median age of 42, in line with the country as a whole, Chapelhall isn't skewing young or old — it's a settled, middling sort of place, the kind where people tend to stay rather than pass through.
The housing story is the clearest signal in the data. A median house price of around £156,000 sits well under what you'd pay across Scotland generally, and that affordability is the practical heart of the place — it's why families and older residents alike can hold a foothold here on incomes that sit at the midpoint nationally (income and deprivation deciles both land at 5, squarely average, neither flagged nor favoured). The council tax band D figure is lower than the national median too, which reinforces the same point from a different angle: this is a place where the cost of staying put is genuinely modest.
Day-to-day, the grades sketch a village that's safe and comfortable rather than lively. Safety and connectivity both come back above the norm — broadband here is solid, with nearly two-thirds of properties on full fibre, and the housing and health grades sit comfortably mid-table-and-above. Nightlife is the outlier, marked well below everything else, and that's the honest trade-off: this isn't a place for an evening out, it's a place you come home to. With fourteen green spaces dotted through a compact village, the outdoor life is small-scale and local rather than destination-park grand — a stretch of grass and trees near the house rather than a Saturday drive to somewhere named on a map.