Cults

14°CPatchy rain nearby

• Today: 16° / 8° · 23% rain
• Tomorrow: 20° / 11° · Overcast

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:33Sunset 19:35

13h 2m of daylight today

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

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

50US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Aberdeen Union Street Roadside, United Kingdom

67 reported road collisions (2024)

36 killed or seriously injured · 82 casualties · 2.9 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

159 food businesses within 2 miles

• 126 passed
• 10 need improvement

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Aberdeen (5.1 km)
• 13 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

• Cheapest petrol: 163.7p · Asda (2.8 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 189.7p · Asda (2.8 km)

12 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

80 charging locations within ~8 km

• 23 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 350 kW
• Nearest: Dunmail Avenue Car Park (0.7 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports centres1
• Sports pitches26
• Golf courses2
• Playgrounds7

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

230,180 residents in Aberdeen City

• Under 16: 16%
• 16–64: 67%
• 65+: 18%

Source: ONS mid-year estimates (local authority)

Among the least deprived areas in Scotland

2% of neighbourhoods are in Scotland’s most deprived 10%; 10% in the most deprived 20%

Source: Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation 2020

Douglas Lumsden

Conservative

Aberdeen South

Source: UK Parliament

SNP / Liberal Democrat coalition

• Lab 11
• Con 6
• LD 3
• Ref 1
• Oth 19

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

• Schools2
• GPs & clinics1
• Supermarkets1
• Parks & greens21
• Restaurants & cafés10

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

10,240 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

21 jobs advertised · £32,352 avg

e.g. Class 2 Driver, Online Spanish Tutor - Part Time, Domestic Assistant

Source: Adzuna

£782 median full-time weekly pay

3.7% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£23,466 disposable income per head (2024)

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

100% low-carbon electricity

Wind 68% · Solar 32%

0 gCO₂/kWh · very low intensity

Latest estimate for North Scotland · National Grid ESO

• Life satisfaction7.3
• Feeling worthwhile7.7
• Happiness yesterday7.5
• 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 Aberdeen South:

• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership547 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Do not ban social media for under 16s333 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide
• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office226 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide
• Remove sentence reductions for guilty pleas in controlling and coercive cases142 local signatures · 104,741 nationwide
• Change surrogacy law to recognise intended parents from birth133 local signatures · 112,809 nationwide

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

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  Cults railway station · 0.3 km

  Cults railway station was opened on 8 September 1853 by the Deeside Railway and served part of Cults with mansion houses such as Southfield, Wellwood, Woodbank, Inchgarth, Drumgarth and Norwood nearby. The Deeside Rai…

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  Shakkin' Briggie · 0.4 km

  St Devenick's Bridge is a disused suspension footbridge which crosses the River Dee from Ardoe to Cults near Aberdeen in Scotland.

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  Cults, Aberdeen · 0.5 km

  Cults is a suburb on the western edge of Aberdeen, Scotland. It lies on the banks of the River Dee and marks the eastern boundary of Royal Deeside.

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  Banchory-Devenick · 0.8 km

  Banchory-Devenick is a hamlet approximately two kilometres south of the city of Aberdeen, Scotland in the Lower Deeside area of Aberdeenshire. The hamlet should not be confused with the historic civil parish of the…

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  Pitfodels railway station · 0.8 km

  Pitfodels railway station or Pitfodels Halt was opened on 2 July 1894 by the GNoSR and served a suburb of Aberdeen with housing and estates such as Wellwood, Inchgarth and Norwood. The halt was one of several victims…

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  West Cults railway station · 1.1 km

  West Cults railway station served the small suburban village of West Cults area within the parish of Peterculter from 1894 to 1937 on the Deeside Railway that ran from Aberdeen (Joint) to Ballater. It lay very close t…

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