Newarthill

6°CPartly Cloudy

• Today: 9° / 2° · 18% rain
• Tomorrow: 10° / 3° · Patchy rain nearby

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 07:28Sunset 16:30

9h 1m of daylight today

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

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

23US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · N Lanarkshire Chapelhall, United Kingdom

208 reported road collisions (2025)

88 killed or seriously injured · 267 casualties · 6 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

156 food businesses within 2 miles

• 143 passed
• 8 need improvement

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Carfin (1.4 km)
• 22 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£161,163 average▲ 3.9% YoY

Across North Lanarkshire · to 2026-08

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

• Cheapest petrol: 167.7p · Asda (9.2 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 195.7p · Asda (7.5 km)

10 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

56 charging locations within ~8 km

• 26 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 350 kW
• Nearest: Edinburgh Road (1.6 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports pitches9
• Golf courses1
• Playgrounds12

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

• Tenants come together to shape the future of housing· 3 Nov 2026
• Success for team targeting illegal tobacco trade· 29 Oct 2026
• Black History Month event celebrates diversity and looks to the future· 28 Oct 2026
• Coatbridge museum seeks people featured in portrait project· 28 Oct 2026
• Remembrance Events 2026· 27 Oct 2026

Source: North Lanarkshire Council

343,930 residents in North Lanarkshire

• Under 16: 17%
• 16–64: 64%
• 65+: 19%

Source: ONS mid-year estimates (local authority)

More deprived than the average in Scotland

13% of neighbourhoods are in Scotland’s most deprived 10%; 34% in the most deprived 20%

Source: Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation 2020

Kenneth Stevenson

Labour

Airdrie and Shotts

Source: UK Parliament

Labour (minority)

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

• Schools5
• Parks & greens17

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

10,190 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

5 jobs advertised · £37,055 avg

e.g. HGV Class 2 Days Motherwell, LGV Class 1 Dayshift, Warehouse Operative

Source: Adzuna

£775 median full-time weekly pay

3% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£21,381 disposable income per head (2024)

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

100% low-carbon electricity

Nuclear 57% · Wind 43%

0 gCO₂/kWh · very low intensity

Latest estimate for South Scotland · National Grid ESO

• Life satisfaction7.4
• Feeling worthwhile7.5
• Happiness yesterday7.3
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.2

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

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Airdrie and Shotts:

• Hold a referendum on abolishing the Scottish Parliament & Government300 local signatures · 17,029 nationwide
• Change surrogacy law to recognise intended parents from birth243 local signatures · 113,305 nationwide
• Remove the grey belt planning rules156 local signatures · 12,329 nationwide
• Launch a public inquiry into illegal migration in the UK122 local signatures · 78,478 nationwide
• End the mandatory fortification of white flour with folic acid immediately113 local signatures · 76,640 nationwide

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

• 
  Newarthill · 0.7 km

  Newarthill is a village in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, situated roughly three miles north-east of the town of Motherwell. It has a population of around 6,200. Most local amenities are shared with the adjacent village…

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  Carfin railway station · 1.4 km

  Carfin railway station is a railway station serving both Carfin and Newarthill in North Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is 14 miles (22 km) southeast of Glasgow Central railway station on the Shotts Line between Glasgow and…

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  Brannock High School · 1.5 km

  Brannock High School is a non-denominational, co-educational comprehensive secondary school in Newarthill, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is situated on Loanhead Road. It guides learners throughout Scotland's nationa…

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  Carfin Grotto · 1.6 km

  Carfin Lourdes Grotto is a Catholic shrine in Scotland dedicated to Our Lady of Lourdes and created in the early twentieth century. The "Carfin Grotto", as the shrine is locally termed, was the brainchild of Canon Tho…

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  Motherwell (district) · 1.8 km

  Motherwell was a local government district in the Strathclyde region of Scotland from 1975 to 1996, lying to the south-east of the regional capital Glasgow.

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  Monklands (district) · 1.8 km

  Monklands was, between 1975 and 1996, one of nineteen local government districts in the Strathclyde region of Scotland.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)