High Possil
Neighbourhood · 6,268 residents
53Fair
Fair · better than 2 in 10 suburbs
Check Local Score out of 100 · 60 is typical for the country
Each arc is a topic, coloured by its score
What’s good
- 92% of homes can get full-fibre broadband
- Property market scores 71, well above the typical 60
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- Transport scores 31, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around High Possil
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is High Possil a good place to live?
High Possil scores 53/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as fair — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for infrastructure (73) and property market (71).
It scores lowest on transport (31).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for High Possil in Scotland, each measured against the national average.
Summary of High Possil
High Possil sits north of Glasgow's centre as a dense grid of post-war housing, the kind of streetscape where pebble-dashed terraces and low-rise blocks sit close together and most people are walking rather than driving to wherever they're going next. It's a compact, working suburb rather than a destination, and it reads that way the moment you're in it.
The numbers back up that first impression. This is an area ranked among the more deprived parts of Scotland on the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation, and it sits in the very lowest income decile nationally — so whatever else is true of the place, money is tight for most households here. Set against that, the housing picture is a genuine surprise: a median house price a little over £189,000 with prices trending upward over the past year, and a housing grade that comes out well above the Scotland-wide average. That combination — low income, low deprivation ranking, but strong and improving housing performance — is the quiet spine of this profile, and it's worth sitting with rather than smoothing over. It suggests a place where property remains accessible even as the wider economic picture stays difficult.
Safety is the other thread to watch. Against a backdrop of solid grades elsewhere — connectivity rated well above the Scottish average, housing strong, environment and health both holding around the national norm — safety is marked as worsening. It's not a place defined by crime in the data provided, but the direction of travel matters more than a single year's snapshot, and it's the one grade moving the wrong way while everything else holds steady or improves.