United Kingdom · Scotland · Local Authority
South Lanarkshire
Local Authority · Scotland · population ~321k
Better pay than average, but housing costs are a mixed bag. South Lanarkshire offers median weekly earnings of £798.30, above the Scottish median, and its mean house price of £179,469 is also close to the national average. However, advertised rent takes 21% of gross median pay, a figure slightly above the Scottish median, and house prices are 4.3 times annual earnings, which is also around the Scottish average. This is a place that offers broadly average earnings and housing costs, with no extreme trade-offs to consider.
Written from the indicators on this page, 2026-08 data.
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How South Lanarkshire ranks across 361 UK Local Authorities
Pay
£41,512/yr
High
Better than 65% of UK LAs
House price
£179,469
Most affordable
Better than 89% of UK LAs
Rent
£727/mo
Most affordable
Better than 85% of UK LAs
Council tax
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Crime
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Deprivation
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Schools
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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 South Lanarkshire, see the official Education Scotland.
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