Markinch

19°CPartly Cloudy

• Today: 19° / 10° · 67% rain
• Tomorrow: 17° / 11° · Overcast

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:36Sunset 19:41

13h 5m of daylight today

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

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

13US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Fife Kirkcaldy, United Kingdom

268 reported road collisions (2024)

103 killed or seriously injured · 363 casualties · 7.2 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

207 food businesses within 2 miles

• 185 passed
• 7 need improvement

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Markinch (0.3 km)
• 9 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£176,924 average▲ 6.8% YoY

Across Fife · to 2026-06

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

• Cheapest petrol: 164.7p · Asda (2.3 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 188.7p · Asda (2.3 km)

8 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

21 charging locations within ~8 km

• 5 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 120 kW
• Nearest: Markinch Rail Station (0.3 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Gyms1
• Sports pitches13
• Golf courses1
• Playgrounds9

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

373,990 residents in Fife

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

Source: ONS mid-year estimates (local authority)

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

Richard Baker

Labour

Glenrothes and Mid Fife

Source: UK Parliament

Labour (minority)

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

• Schools3
• GPs & clinics1
• Pharmacies1
• Parks & greens6
• Restaurants & cafés7

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

11,220 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

19 jobs advertised · £24,195 avg

e.g. Online History Tutoring Job in Markinch – Flexible Schedule, Become a Guitar Tutor in Markinch – Flexible & Remote, Online Music Tutor - Part Time

Source: Adzuna

£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

100% low-carbon electricity

Wind 89% · Nuclear 10% · Solar 1%

0 gCO₂/kWh · very low intensity

Latest estimate for South Scotland · National Grid ESO

• 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

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

• Do not ban social media for under 16s343 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide
• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership286 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office219 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide
• Change surrogacy law to recognise intended parents from birth205 local signatures · 112,809 nationwide
• Remove sentence reductions for guilty pleas in controlling and coercive cases202 local signatures · 104,741 nationwide

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

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  Markinch · 0.1 km

  Markinch is both a village and a parish in Fife, Scotland. According to an estimate taken in 2008, the village has a population of 2,420. The civil parish had a population of 16,530. Markinch is east of Fife's adminis…

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  Markinch railway station · 0.3 km

  Markinch railway station is a railway station in Markinch, Fife, Scotland, which serves the Glenrothes, Leslie and Levenmouth areas of Fife.

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  Balbirnie House · 1.0 km

  Balbirnie House is an early 19th-century country house in Glenrothes, in central Fife, Scotland. The present house was completed in 1817 as a rebuild of an 18th-century building, itself a replacement for a 17th-centur…

• Glenrothes RFC · 1.2 km

  Glenrothes RFC is a rugby union club based in Glenrothes, Fife, Scotland. Home matches are played at Carleton Park, Glenrothes.

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  Auchmuty High School · 1.6 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…

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  Balbirnie Stone Circle · 1.7 km

  Balbirnie Stone Circle is an archaeological site, a stone circle on the north-eastern edge of Glenrothes, in Fife, Scotland. The site was in use from the late Neolithic period to the late second millennium BC.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)