Fintry in Scotland has a Check Local Score of 43/100 (fair), drawn from official data on safety, schools, transport, housing, amenities and the local environment, each measured against the national average — a score of 60 is typical for the country.
Fintry's streets are dense, close-packed, the kind of terraced and tenement housing you find where a city has grown outward in one determined push rather than in loops of cul-de-sacs. It's a working suburb rather than a showcase one — nothing manicured, nothing performing for visitors, just a place that gets on with itself.
The numbers behind that impression are worth sitting with. Median house prices sit at £140,878, well under what you'd pay across Scotland as a whole, and that affordability is the flip side of an income decile of 1 — this is one of the less affluent corners nationally, even though the wider deprivation picture (decile 3) isn't quite as stretched. Council tax at Band D runs a little above the national median, which catches some people out given the house prices. Housing itself scores well by local standards — a B+ grade — so the flats and terraces here tend to be reasonably built and reasonably kept, even if the household budgets around them are tighter than the Scottish norm.
Green space is present but modest — eighteen pockets of it, just under fourteen hectares in total, which reads as pocket parks and local ground rather than sprawling parkland; you're not walking distance to a big civic green here, but there's somewhere to get outside. Connectivity is the standout: an A grade, with 84% full-fibre coverage, so working from a Fintry flat is genuinely well supported even if the physical world outside your door is unremarkable. That's a real point in its favour for anyone who spends the day online. Nightlife scrapes along at a C+ — there's a bit of a social scene but it's not the draw here.
The grade that should give you pause is health, sitting at D+, a clear outlier against the B+ housing and B safety and the A connectivity — this is the one figure that doesn't fit the rest of the pattern, and it's worth taking seriously as a signal about local health outcomes and service pressure rather than dismissing it. Safety itself is solid, a B grade, better than the nightlife or health scores would suggest, so the day-to-day feel of the streets is calmer than the raw deprivation numbers might imply.
Put together, this is a place that suits someone who wants affordable, decently built housing, a strong internet connection, and is comfortable being at the tighter end of the income spectrum — not somewhere chosen for its green space or its health infrastructure, and the low income decile alongside that health grade are the two things to weigh honestly before committing.
Data last updated: 15 August 2026
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