Kintore
Town · 4,326 residents
56Good
Good · better than 3 in 10 towns
Check Local Score out of 100 · 60 is typical for the country
Each arc is a topic, coloured by its score
What’s good
- Safety scores 76, 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 54% of the area
- Food & drink scores 29, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Kintore
Map outline: Official settlement boundary (National Records of Scotland)
Is Kintore a good place to live?
Kintore scores 56/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (76).
It scores lowest on food & drink (29) and transport (31).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Kintore in Scotland, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Kintore
Kintore sits off the A96 as the kind of place where new-build sandstone-effect semis back onto older granite cottages, and the streets have that settled, well-kept look of a village that's absorbed a fair bit of commuter growth without losing its shape. You won't find nightlife here worth speaking of, and the place doesn't pretend otherwise — this is a village for coming home to, not staying out in.
The numbers back up what you'd guess from walking round: this is comfortably among the least deprived parts of Scotland, sitting right at the top of the income scale nationally, and a median age of close to 42 tells you it's a village of established households rather than a first-rung-on-the-ladder spot or a retirement pocket. Housing here is overwhelmingly about space and settling in for years rather than turning a quick profit — prices have been essentially flat over the past year, neither a boom nor a worry, which suits people who bought here to live in it, not flip it.
The grade pattern is where Kintore gets interesting: safety comes out at the top of the scale, housing and the environment both score strongly, health is solid — and then connectivity and nightlife sag to middling. That's a believable village trade-off, not a red flag: you get the quiet, green, low-crime feel in exchange for accepting that broadband and buzz lag behind. With nearly 8 hectares spread across ten separate green spaces for a population of under 4,000, you're never far from a patch of grass to walk a dog or let kids out the door, even if the file doesn't hand us the name of the park you'd actually head for.