St Enochs
Neighbourhood · 3,481 residents
64Good
Good · better than 8 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
- 96 places to eat and drink
- 12 GP practices within a short walk
- 92% of homes can get full-fibre broadband
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- Road noise reaches 82% of the area
- Transport scores 31, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around St Enochs
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Is St Enochs a good place to live?
St Enochs scores 64/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for food & drink (99) and health (79).
It scores lowest on transport (31).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for St Enochs in Scotland, each measured against the national average.
Summary of St Enochs
St Enochs reads like the middle of a city that never quite sleeps: dense blocks of flats, ground-floor bars and restaurants, and a population skewing young enough that you notice it in the streets after dark as much as the shops by day. This is a place built for density, not for driveways.
The numbers back up what you'd guess from walking round: population density here is more than double the Scotland-wide average, and the median age of under 29 tells you this is a working, going-out crowd rather than a settling-down one. On the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation this sits at decile 4, middling rather than deprived, and a median house price a little under £190,000 is well below what you'd find in Scotland's pricier suburbs — this is a place where flats, not detached houses, set the tone, and where buying in doesn't demand a city-centre premium despite the address feeling every bit central. Council tax at band D running slightly below the national median fits the same story: unshowy, accessible, urban.
The grade pattern is the real tell here. Connectivity, environment, health and nightlife all come back rated well above the Scottish average, and full-fibre broadband reaching over 90% of premises confirms this is a well-wired, well-served corner of the city — you're not going to be caught out working from home. Green space is real too, with several plots totalling over 50 hectares giving you somewhere to decompress that isn't a beer garden. But safety sits out of step with all of that — a solid B rather than the A-grade company it keeps elsewhere on the scorecard, which is the one thing worth sitting with before you commit. It's not a place that scores as unsafe, just one where the nightlife-driven energy that makes it lively after dark is the same thing that keeps the safety grade from matching its neighbours.