Quarter

16°CLight rain shower

• Today: 18° / 10° · 87% rain
• Tomorrow: 17° / 11° · Overcast

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:40Sunset 19:44

13h 4m of daylight today

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

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

11US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · South Lanarkshire Hamilton, United Kingdom

253 reported road collisions (2024)

114 killed or seriously injured · 379 casualties · 7.6 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

72 food businesses within 2 miles

• 40 passed
• 15 need improvement

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Chatelherault (3.4 km)
• 4 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£186,771 average▲ 6.4% YoY

Across South Lanarkshire · to 2026-06

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

• Cheapest petrol: 165.7p · Asda (7.4 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 186.7p · Asda (7.4 km)

18 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

50 charging locations within ~8 km

• 16 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 300 kW
• Nearest: Ratho Park (2.6 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports centres1
• Sports pitches1
• Playgrounds2

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

334,330 residents in South Lanarkshire

• Under 16: 17%
• 16–64: 62%
• 65+: 21%

Source: ONS mid-year estimates (local authority)

Around the average in Scotland

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

Source: Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation 2020

Imogen Walker

Labour

Hamilton and Clyde Valley

Source: UK Parliament

Labour / Liberal Democrat / Independent coalition

• Lab 24
• Con 5
• LD 3
• Grn 1
• Ref 3
• Oth 25

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

• Schools1
• Parks & greens1

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

11,345 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

19 jobs advertised · £21,993 avg

e.g. Courier, Self Employed Courier, Online Maths Tutor - Part Time

Source: Adzuna

£798 median full-time weekly pay

2.7% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£23,682 disposable income per head (2024)

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

100% low-carbon electricity

Wind 88% · Nuclear 10% · Solar 2%

0 gCO₂/kWh · very low intensity

Latest estimate for South Scotland · National Grid ESO

• Life satisfaction7.4
• Feeling worthwhile7.7
• Happiness yesterday7.4
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.3

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

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Hamilton and Clyde Valley:

• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership343 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Do not ban social media for under 16s317 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide
• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office249 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide
• Change surrogacy law to recognise intended parents from birth212 local signatures · 112,809 nationwide
• Review the evidence and fund the addition of SMA to the Newborn Screening Test181 local signatures · 151,287 nationwide

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

• 
  Quarter, South Lanarkshire · 0.1 km

  Quarter is a village in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, on the hill above the Clyde Valley. The village is south of Eddlewood, Hamilton connected by carscallan road. To the west is the town Larkhall.

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  Quarter railway station · 0.8 km

  Quarter railway station served the village of Quarter, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, from 1863 to 1945 on the Hamilton and Strathaven Railway.

• Earnock · 1.3 km

  Earnock was an ancient estate in an area south of Hamilton in Lanarkshire, Scotland. It extended from the western side of Strathaven Road to the western extremity of the Parish of Hamilton.

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  Hamilton (Scottish district) · 1.7 km

  Hamilton 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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  Cadzow Castle · 2.6 km

  Cadzow Castle, now in ruins, was constructed between 1500 and 1550 at a site one mile south-east of the centre of Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, Scotland. The earlier medieval settlement of Hamilton was formerly known a…

• Meikle Earnock Halt railway station · 2.6 km

  Meikle Earnock Halt railway station served the suburb of Meikle Earnock, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, from 1863 to 1943 on the Hamilton and Strathaven Railway.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)