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Fife

Fife is a settlement in Fife, Scotland, with 1 GP clinic, 3 pharmacies, 1 supermarket, 24 restaurants and cafés, 48 bus stops, and Markinch railway station 2km away. Covers 69 towns with local open-data for the whole authority.

On deprivation, Fife is around the average in Scotland (SIMD 2020).

Some panels draw on England & Wales-only official data, so street crime, energy ratings, NHS services, schools, council tax, care services, private rents, affordability and life expectancy aren’t shown for Scottish areas. Population, deprivation (SIMD), house prices, weather, food hygiene, council control, fuel and more still apply.

Weather

4°CMist

  • Today: 9° / 4° · 62% rain
  • Tomorrow: 10° / 7° · Patchy rain nearby

Source: WeatherAPI

Daylight

Sunrise 07:29Sunset 16:23

8h 54m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: St Andrew’s Day, Mon 30 Nov

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

Air quality

14US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Fife Kirkcaldy, United Kingdom

Road safety

276 reported road collisions (2025)

127 killed or seriously injured · 395 casualties · 7.4 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

Food hygiene

317 food businesses within 2 miles

  • 273 passed
  • 11 need improvement

Source: Food Standards Agency

Buses & trains

  • Nearest station: Markinch (2.0 km)
  • 48 bus stops within ~½ mile

Live trains from Markinch (2.0 km):

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Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

House prices

£182,463 average▲ 5.1% YoY

Across Fife · to 2026-08

Detached£352,415
Semi-detached£209,317
Terraced£166,535
Flat£112,580

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

Fuel prices

  • Cheapest petrol: 169.7p · Asda (0.5 km)
  • Cheapest diesel: 198.7p · Asda (7.1 km)

4 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

EV charging

22 charging locations within ~8 km

  • 6 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
  • Fastest nearby: 120 kW
  • Nearest: McDonald's, Queensway Industrial Estate (0.1 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

Sport & leisure

  • Gyms3
  • Sports pitches30
  • Golf courses1
  • Playgrounds47

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Population

373,990 residents in Fife

  • Under 16: 16%
  • 16–64: 61%
  • 65+: 23%

Source: ONS mid-year estimates (local authority)

Deprivation

Around the average in Scotland

8% of neighbourhoods are in Scotland’s most deprived 10%; 20% in the most deprived 20%

Source: Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation 2020

Council control

Labour (minority)

Source: Open Council Data UK (CC BY-SA)

Amenities nearby

  • Schools10
  • GPs & clinics3
  • Pharmacies4
  • Supermarkets8
  • Parks & greens66
  • Restaurants & cafés32

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Local businesses

11,330 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

Jobs

1,279 jobs advertised · £34,255 avg

e.g. Support Worker - Glenrothes, Amazon Flex Self-Employed Delivery Driver - Earn £14 - £18 per hour*, Brow and Lash Expert

Source: Adzuna

Local economy

£763 median full-time weekly pay

3.3% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£23,257 disposable income per head (2024)

Source: ONS / Nomis (claimant count · ASHE) · ONS regional GDHI

Wellbeing

  • Life satisfaction7.3
  • Feeling worthwhile7.7
  • Happiness yesterday7.2
  • Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.4

Average rating out of 10 · ONS personal well-being 2022-23

Local petitions

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Glenrothes and Mid Fife:

Source: petition.parliament.uk · as of 2026-10-05

Notable places nearby

  • Cadham · 0.4 km

    Cadham is a precinct in the former new town of Glenrothes in Fife, Scotland. The oldest part of Cadham was once a hamlet and was established to house workers of the nearby Tullis Russell papermills. In the 1970s the G…

  • Auchmuty High School · 0.4 km

    Auchmuty School is a state secondary school in the town of Glenrothes in the Fife council area of Scotland. Opened in 1957, it was the first school for secondary education in the area. It quickly outgrew the original…

  • Glenrothes and Mid Fife · 0.6 km

    Glenrothes and Mid Fife is a constituency in Scotland in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament, represented by Richard Baker of the Labour Party since the 2024 general election. The seat was previously held by Pet…

  • Kingdom Shopping Centre · 0.6 km

    The Kingdom Shopping Centre is an indoor retail and commercial complex in Glenrothes, located in the town centre. It is the largest indoor shopping centre in Fife and is one of the largest single-level indoor shopping…

  • Fife House, Glenrothes · 0.8 km

    Fife House, formerly Glenrothes House, is a large office development on North Street in Glenrothes, Fife, Scotland. It was built for Glenrothes Development Corporation in 1969, then became the headquarters of Fife Reg…

  • Glenrothes · 0.9 km

    Glenrothes is a town situated in the heart of Fife, in east-central Scotland. It is the administrative capital of Fife, containing the headquarters of both Fife Council and Police Scotland Fife Division and is a major…

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)

Towns in Fife