Glasgow
City · 649,984 people live here · 111 areas
Check Local Score for Glasgow as a whole: 59, good, better than 3 in 10 cities. 60 is typical for the country.
Summary · written from the figures for Glasgow
Glasgow doesn't try to hide what it is: tenements and sandstone terraces stacked along wide grid streets, punctuated by student flats, converted warehouses, and the odd glass-fronted office block downtown. It's a working city that never fully deindustrialised in spirit — you can feel the shipbuilding-era bones under the nightlife and the university crowds. The population skews younger than the country as a whole, and it shows in the pubs, the gig venues, and the general hum of a place that isn't winding down at nine o'clock.
The practical picture is mixed in an interesting way. Housing here is genuinely affordable — a median price a little under £190,000, which puts it well below what you'd pay across much of Scotland, and prices have been drifting up gently rather than spiking. Council tax at Band D also comes in under the national median, so the monthly arithmetic is kinder than in most cities this size. Connectivity is a real strength too: full-fibre broadband reaches the vast majority of homes, which matters if you're working remotely or just tired of buffering. Against that, Glasgow sits in the more deprived half of Scotland on the multiple deprivation index, and income levels lag further still — decile 2 nationally — a reminder that affordability here is partly a function of wider economic pressure, not just good value.
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Areas ranked overall
Areas are laid out roughly as they sit in Glasgow, north at the top. Scores are out of 100; 60 is typical for the country.
Hutchesontown
68Ranked 1 of 111 by overall. Strongest on food & drink (89), weakest on transport (31).
Is Glasgow a good place to live?
Glasgow scores 59/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for food & drink (72) and infrastructure (72).
It scores lowest on transport (31).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Glasgow in Scotland, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Glasgow
Glasgow doesn't try to hide what it is: tenements and sandstone terraces stacked along wide grid streets, punctuated by student flats, converted warehouses, and the odd glass-fronted office block downtown. It's a working city that never fully deindustrialised in spirit — you can feel the shipbuilding-era bones under the nightlife and the university crowds. The population skews younger than the country as a whole, and it shows in the pubs, the gig venues, and the general hum of a place that isn't winding down at nine o'clock.
The practical picture is mixed in an interesting way. Housing here is genuinely affordable — a median price a little under £190,000, which puts it well below what you'd pay across much of Scotland, and prices have been drifting up gently rather than spiking. Council tax at Band D also comes in under the national median, so the monthly arithmetic is kinder than in most cities this size. Connectivity is a real strength too: full-fibre broadband reaches the vast majority of homes, which matters if you're working remotely or just tired of buffering. Against that, Glasgow sits in the more deprived half of Scotland on the multiple deprivation index, and income levels lag further still — decile 2 nationally — a reminder that affordability here is partly a function of wider economic pressure, not just good value.
Green space is where the city quietly surprises people — well over 2,500 hectares of it, spread across more than a thousand named parks and pockets, so however dense your street feels, there's usually somewhere to walk it off. The grade pattern reinforces that sense of a city with real recreational and cultural muscle: nightlife and connectivity both score at the top end nationally, environment and health sit comfortably above the Scottish average, and housing follows the same upward path. Safety is the one grade that breaks from that pattern — still respectable, but marked as worsening over the recent period, and worth sitting with rather than skimming past, especially if a quiet street matters more to you than a good Saturday night out.