United Kingdom · Scotland · Local Authority
City of Edinburgh
Local Authority · Scotland · population ~528k
High pay comes at a steep price. Edinburgh offers median weekly earnings above the Scottish average at £819.80, but this comes with among the highest house prices in Scotland at £294,681 and the highest advertised rents at £1,325 per month. Rent alone consumes 37.3% of median gross pay, and house prices stand at 6.9 times annual earnings, both significantly above the Scottish median. This is a city for those whose earning potential outweighs the considerable expense of living there, and for whom the cost of housing is a secondary concern.
Written from the indicators on this page, 2026-08 data.
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How City of Edinburgh ranks across 361 UK Local Authorities
Pay
£42,630/yr
High
Better than 71% of UK LAs
House price
£294,681
Mid-range
Around UK average
Rent
£1,325/mo
Expensive
Worse than 74% of UK LAs
Council tax
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no data
Crime
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no data
Deprivation
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no data
Schools
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no data
Colour shows quintile position against 361 UK Local Authorities. Green is the best position for someone moving here; red is the worst. Direction is set per indicator — higher pay, lower rent, less crime, less deprivation are all green.
Schools data
School quality is published by the Education Scotland regulator, which uses a methodology distinct from England's Ofsted. We don't synthesise a Scotland schools list here — for current ratings of schools in City of Edinburgh, see the official Education Scotland.
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