Star

17°CPatchy rain nearby

• Today: 19° / 10° · 75% 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

5US 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)

34 food businesses within 2 miles

• 29 passed
• 0 need improvement

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Markinch (2.2 km)
• 13 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 (4.2 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 188.7p · Asda (4.2 km)

6 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

22 charging locations within ~8 km

• 4 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 120 kW
• Nearest: Markinch Rail Station (2.1 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports pitches2
• Playgrounds1

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)

• Schools1
• Parks & greens3

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

11,220 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

25 jobs advertised

e.g. Become a Maths Tutor in Star (Fife) – Flexible & Remote, Become a Spanish Tutor in Star (Anglesey) – Flexible & Remote, Become a Computer science Tutor in Star (Fife) – Flexible & Remote

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 84% · Nuclear 14% · Solar 2%

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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  Star, Fife · 0.2 km

  Star, also known as Star of Markinch, is a small village in Fife, Scotland.

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  Kennoway Star Hearts F.C. · 0.3 km

  Kennoway Star Hearts Football Club are a football club from the village of Star near Kennoway in Fife, Scotland. Currently competing in the East of Scotland League First Division, the club play their home games at Tre…

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  Markinch · 2.1 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 · 2.1 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 · 2.3 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…

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  River Leven, Fife · 2.4 km

  The River Leven is a river in Fife, Scotland. It flows from Loch Leven into the Firth of Forth at the town of Leven. The river is 47 km long and is home to brown trout and hosts a run of sea trout and atlantic salmon.…

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)