Keith

Keith reads as a working Speyside town rather than a commuter dormitory — solid granite and sandstone terraces along the main road, a population that's settled rather than transient, and a median age nudging fifty that tells you most people here bought in years ago and stayed. This isn't a place people pass through on the way to somewhere else; it's a place people are from.

The housing picture matches that character. A median price a little over £200,000 sits well below what you'd pay across much of Scotland's central belt, and the trend has been quietly improving over the medium term rather than spiking — the kind of gentle upward drift that suggests steady local demand rather than speculation. Council tax band D costs come in close to the Scottish average, so there's no sting there either. Deprivation and income deciles sit mid-table nationally — not a struggling area, not an affluent one, just an ordinary Scottish town getting on with itself. What's less ordinary is the connectivity: full-fibre broadband reaches barely six in ten properties, and the connectivity grade is the weak spot in an otherwise respectable set of scores. If you work from home and need reliable fibre, check the exact street before you commit.

Green space is genuinely a feature here — nearly thirty separate spaces adding up to over twenty hectares, which for a town this size is generous, and it shows in the environment grade sitting well above the Scotland-wide norm. Health provision scores solidly too, comfortably ahead of the national average, which matters more as the local population skews older. Safety has held flat rather than swinging either way, and sits above the national baseline — the kind of steadiness that doesn't make headlines but does make for an easy mind. Evenings out score respectably as well, better than you'd expect for a town this size, hinting at a handful of decent pubs and restaurants rather than a dead high street after six.