Crossroads

17°CPartly Cloudy

• Today: 19° / 12° · 90% rain
• Tomorrow: 16° / 11° · Patchy rain nearby

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:46Sunset 19:40

12h 54m of daylight today

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

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

18US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: ozone

Source: WAQI · Glasgow Waulkmillglen Reservoir, United Kingdom

70 reported road collisions (2024)

33 killed or seriously injured · 116 casualties · 5.8 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

28 food businesses within 2 miles

• 19 passed
• 1 need improvement

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Kilmarnock (6.1 km)
• 2 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£138,898 average▲ 10.1% YoY

Across East Ayrshire · to 2026-06

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

• Cheapest petrol: 163.7p · Asda (4.7 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 184.9p · Asda (4.7 km)

3 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

21 charging locations within ~8 km

• 7 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 50 kW
• Nearest: Kilmarnock Athletics Arena (4.2 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports pitches1

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

121,350 residents in East Ayrshire

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

Source: ONS mid-year estimates (local authority)

More deprived than the average in Scotland

15% of neighbourhoods are in Scotland’s most deprived 10%; 31% in the most deprived 20%

Source: Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation 2020

Lillian Jones

Labour

Kilmarnock and Loudoun

Source: UK Parliament

SNP (minority)

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

• Restaurants & cafés1

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

3,940 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

1 jobs advertised · £45,001 avg

e.g. Social Worker (Justice Services) - EAY12847

Source: Adzuna

£733 median full-time weekly pay

3.6% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£21,603 disposable income per head (2024)

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

100% low-carbon electricity

Wind 79% · Nuclear 15% · Solar 6%

0 gCO₂/kWh · very low intensity

Latest estimate for South Scotland · National Grid ESO

• Life satisfaction7.3
• Feeling worthwhile7.6
• Happiness yesterday7.4
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.4

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

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Kilmarnock and Loudoun:

• Make seizure training mandatory in all child and vulnerable adult work settings340 local signatures · 11,744 nationwide
• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership319 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Do not ban social media for under 16s299 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide
• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office235 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide
• Change surrogacy law to recognise intended parents from birth188 local signatures · 112,809 nationwide

Source: petition.parliament.uk · as of 2026-08-06

• Lands of Dallars · 0.7 km

  The Lands of Dallars or Auchenskeith (NS463337) form a small estate in East Ayrshire, Hurlford, Kilmarnock, Parish of Riccarton, Scotland. The present mansion house is mainly late 18th-century, located within a bend o…

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  HM Prison Kilmarnock · 0.9 km

  HM Prison Kilmarnock is a prison in Bowhouse, Hurlford near Kilmarnock, East Ayrshire, Scotland. It is situated 3 miles (5 km) south-east of Hurlford on the Mauchline Road. Its location means it is locally known as Bo…

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  Carnell Estate · 1.9 km

  Carnell House is a mansion house and estate near the village of Hurlford about 5 miles (8.0 km) south-east of Kilmarnock in South Ayrshire, Scotland, 25 miles (40 km) from Glasgow. Carnell was previously known as Cair…

• Barleith railway station · 2.3 km

  Barleith railway station was a railway station near Hurlford, East Ayrshire, Scotland. The station was built by the Glasgow and South Western Railway on their Darvel Branch line.

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  Whitehill Loch · 2.6 km

  Whitehill Loch, previously known as Hillhouse Loch was a freshwater loch in the East Ayrshire Council Area, now drained, near Galston, in the Parish of Riccarton, lying in a glacial Kettle Hole.

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  Hurlford · 2.9 km

  Hurlford is a village in East Ayrshire, Scotland, situated on the outskirts of Kilmarnock. It has a population of 4,968. Hurlford's former names include Whirlford and Hurdleford. The village was named Whirlford as a r…

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)