Conon Bridge
Village · 1,985 residents
52Fair
Fair · better than 3 in 10 villages
Check Local Score out of 100 · 60 is typical for the country
Each arc is a topic, coloured by its score
What’s good
- Environment scores 72, well above the typical 60
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
Around Conon Bridge
Map outline: Official settlement boundary (National Records of Scotland)
Is Conon Bridge a good place to live?
Conon Bridge scores 52/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as fair — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for environment (72).
It scores lowest on transport (31) and infrastructure (38).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Conon Bridge in Scotland, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Conon Bridge
Conon Bridge reads as a Highland village that has quietly filled in around its older core — the kind of place where pebble-dashed bungalows sit beside newer estate builds, gardens are bigger than the houses need, and the pace on the street is set by people who aren't in a hurry to be anywhere else. The median age here is a shade under 49, well above the Scotland-wide average of 42.8, and you feel that in the rhythm of the place: this is settled ground, not a village catching the overflow of a young commuter crowd.
House prices sit around £219,700, and with an income decile of 6 and a deprivation decile of 6, Conon Bridge sits comfortably in the middle of the Scottish pattern — neither a bargain corner nor a stretch. The five-year direction on housing is marked as improving, and council tax at Band D runs slightly below the national median, which softens the monthly arithmetic a little. Schooling is thin on the ground in the immediate area — there's a single school serving the village itself, so anyone with children will want to look at what catchment and secondary provision looks like a little further out before committing. Connectivity is the area's weak spot on paper: full fibre reaches 60% of premises, and the connectivity grade sits well below everything else on the scorecard, which matters more than it used to if home working is part of your plan.
Green space is genuinely part of daily life rather than a brochure line — eleven separate green spaces packed into a small village footprint, giving the environment here an A grade, well ahead of what the density (1,580 people per square kilometre, still under the Scottish average) might suggest. That combination of open ground and settled population shows up in how the place feels used: dog walks, kids on bikes, allotment-adjacent gardens, rather than a high street built for footfall. Health provision reads solidly (a B+), and the safety grade lands in the same upper-middle band, holding flat over time rather than swinging either way — this is not a place with a live safety story, good or bad, it's simply quiet.