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Kirkconnel

Kirkconnel is a village in Dumfries, Scotland, with a population of around 2,070. It has 1 pharmacy, 1 supermarket, 1 restaurant and café, 28 bus stops, and the nearest railway station is Kirkconnel, 0.6 km away. This page gathers weather, crime, food hygiene, transport, flood risk, house prices, population, deprivation and your local MP for the Kirkconnel area — all from official UK open data.

On deprivation, the Dumfries and Galloway area is less deprived than the average in Scotland (SIMD 2020).

Council
Dumfries and Galloway
County
Dumfries
Constituency
Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale
Police force
Scotland
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

10°CCloudy

  • Today: 10° / 1° · 14% rain
  • Tomorrow: 9° / 2° · Mist

Source: WeatherAPI

Daylight

Sunrise 07:23Sunset 16:35

9h 13m of daylight today

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

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

Air quality

16US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · South Lanarkshire Lanark, United Kingdom

Road safety

222 reported road collisions (2025)

85 killed or seriously injured · 323 casualties · 15.3 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

Food hygiene

9 food businesses within 2 miles

  • 4 passed
  • 0 need improvement

Source: Food Standards Agency

Buses & trains

  • Nearest station: Kirkconnel (0.2 km)
  • 30 bus stops within ~½ mile

Live trains from Kirkconnel (0.3 km):

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Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

House prices

£171,854 average▲ 3.9% YoY

Across Dumfries and Galloway · to 2026-08

Detached£263,073
Semi-detached£172,480
Terraced£139,042
Flat£88,882

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

EV charging

3 charging locations within ~8 km

  • 1 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
  • Fastest nearby: 50 kW
  • Nearest: Blackaddie House Hotel, Sanquhar (4.5 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

Sport & leisure

  • Sports centres2
  • Sports pitches5
  • Playgrounds4

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Population

145,490 residents in Dumfries and Galloway

  • Under 16: 15%
  • 16–64: 57%
  • 65+: 29%

Source: ONS mid-year estimates (local authority)

Deprivation

Less deprived than the average in Scotland

5% of neighbourhoods are in Scotland’s most deprived 10%; 9% in the most deprived 20%

Source: Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation 2020

Council control

SNP / Labour / Independent / Liberal Democrat coalition

  • Lab 7
  • Con 10
  • LD 1
  • Oth 11

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

Amenities nearby

  • Schools1
  • Pharmacies1
  • Supermarkets1
  • Parks & greens27
  • Restaurants & cafés1

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Local businesses

7,680 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

Local economy

£723 median full-time weekly pay

2.8% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£23,835 disposable income per head (2024)

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

Wellbeing

  • Life satisfaction7.7
  • Feeling worthwhile7.8
  • Happiness yesterday7.6
  • Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.7

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

Local petitions

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale:

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

Notable places nearby

  • Kirkconnel · 0.2 km

    Kirkconnel is a small parish in Dumfries and Galloway, southwestern Scotland. It is located on the A76 near the head of Nithsdale. Principally it was a mining community thriving until the late 1960s when the local min…

  • Kirkconnel railway station · 0.2 km

    Kirkconnel railway station is a railway station in the town of Kirkconnel, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. The station is unstaffed, owned by Network Rail and managed by ScotRail.

  • Kelloholm · 0.4 km

    Kelloholm is a village in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. It has a primary school, a public house and several shops. Kelloholm lies next to Kirkconnel and the two have begun to merge. Kelloholm was originally constru…

  • Kelloside · 0.7 km

    Kelloside is a historic place south of Kirkconnel parish and the River Nith in Dumfries and Galloway, Dumfriesshire, Scotland. Old Kelloside is located along the Kello Water, which joins the Nith a mile (1.5 km) to th…

  • Crawick Holm · 4.1 km

    Crawick Holm was a football ground in Sanquhar, Scotland. It was the home ground of Nithsdale Wanderers.

  • Crawick Multiverse · 4.2 km

    Crawick Multiverse is a land art project by the landscape architect and designer Charles Jencks near Sanquhar, Dumfries and Galloway. The project began in 2005 when Jencks was invited to re-imagine an abandoned mine,…

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)

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Frequently asked questions

Where is Kirkconnel?
Kirkconnel is a town in Dumfries, Scotland, in the Dumfries and Galloway local authority.
What is the population of Kirkconnel?
Kirkconnel has an approximate settlement population of 2,070.
How deprived is Kirkconnel?
The Dumfries and Galloway local authority, which includes Kirkconnel, is less deprived than the average in Scotland on the SIMD 2020.