North Cardonald
Neighbourhood · 9 residents
40Fair
Fair · among the lowest-scoring 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
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- Transport scores 31, below the typical 60
- Property market scores 33, below the typical 60
- Health scores 35, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around North Cardonald
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is North Cardonald a good place to live?
North Cardonald scores 40/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as fair — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for infrastructure (73).
It scores lowest on transport (31) and property market (33).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for North Cardonald in Scotland, each measured against the national average.
Summary of North Cardonald
North Cardonald is tenements and terraced streets packed close together, the kind of density that means you notice your neighbours whether you want to or not. It reads as a working suburb rather than a destination — modest homes, modest incomes, and a population squeezed into a footprint tighter than most of Scotland, even if it falls short of the national average density.
The numbers on income and deprivation are the quiet spine of this place: it sits near the bottom nationally on both the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation and income decile, which tells you plainly that this isn't a wealthy corner of the country. Yet the connectivity grade is the outlier — full fibre reaches the vast majority of homes here, an A-grade infrastructure sitting inside an area that scores C+ on housing. That mismatch is worth sitting with: the broadband is better than the bricks. Housing itself is priced well below both the Scotland-wide picture and what you'd expect from the council tax band split, so a for-sale board here signals affordability first, polish second.
Green space is thin on the ground — a single plot barely a fraction of a hectare — so this isn't an area built around parks and long walks. What it does offer is a reasonable spread of grades elsewhere: health and environment both sit at a solid B, nightlife nudges into B+ territory, and safety holds at B too, meaning day-to-day life here is steadier than the raw deprivation figures might suggest. The median age of 39 is a touch younger than both the regional and national averages, hinting at a population skewing slightly working-age rather than retired.