Strathaven
Village · 8,286 residents
64Good
Good · better than 8 in 10 villages
Check Local Score out of 100 · 60 is typical for the country
Each arc is a topic, coloured by its score
What’s good
- 51% of residents live within five minutes of a park
Check before you view
- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
- Road noise reaches 46% of the area
- Transport scores 31, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Map outline: Official settlement boundary (National Records of Scotland)
Is Strathaven a good place to live?
Strathaven scores 64/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for environment (76).
It scores lowest on transport (31).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Strathaven in Scotland, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Strathaven
Strathaven sits on a hill above the Avon Water with the kind of high street that still has independent shops rather than the usual chain clutter, and the sandstone terraces around the centre give it a settled, small-town feel rather than a village-green cluster of cottages. It attracts an older, established crowd more than a young transient one — the median age here is nearly 48, well above the Scottish average of around 43 — and that shows in the quiet, looked-after look of the place rather than any sense of churn.
The council tax band D figure, at £1,134, actually comes in under the Scotland-wide median, and with a median house price around £181,500 and prices having crept up over the past year, this reads as an area where money goes further than the national picture suggests without being a bargain-basement market. Deprivation and income deciles both sit at 8, meaning Strathaven ranks among the less deprived parts of Scotland — comfortable rather than wealthy, a place where people tend to own rather than pass through. There are four schools serving the area, which for a village of around 7,000 people is a reasonable local provision, though the payload doesn't let me single one out by name.
Green space is where Strathaven quietly does well — 25 separate green spaces across just over 27 hectares is a generous ratio for a settlement this size, and it's easy to picture that being the backbone of weekend life, whether that's the Avon Water walks or the park land threaded through the town. The grade pattern across the board sits at B or B+ — environment, health, connectivity, nightlife, safety all reading as comfortably above the Scottish average — which makes the one discordant note worth pausing on: safety is trending in the wrong direction even though the overall grade for it remains solid today. That's not a reason to write the place off, but it's the one thread worth asking locals about rather than taking the grade at face value. Full-fibre coverage above 60% is respectable rather than exceptional, enough for most home-working needs without being cutting-edge.