Spittal (South Lanarkshire)

14°CLight rain shower

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

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:41Sunset 19:45

13h 4m of daylight today

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

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

12US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · South Lanarkshire Rutherglen, 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)

500+ food businesses within 2 miles

• 333 passed
• 38 need improvement

Source: Food Standards Agency · split of the nearest 500

• Nearest station: Croftfoot (0.5 km)
• 70 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 (8.3 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 186.7p · Asda (8.3 km)

43 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

150 charging locations within ~8 km

• 33 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 350 kW
• Nearest: Croftfoot Service Station (0.4 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports centres9
• Sports pitches34
• Playgrounds23

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

Michael Shanks

Labour

Rutherglen

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)

• Schools17
• GPs & clinics2
• Pharmacies5
• Supermarkets3
• Parks & greens43
• Restaurants & cafés20

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

11,345 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

£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 Rutherglen:

• Do not ban social media for under 16s316 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide
• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership290 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Change surrogacy law to recognise intended parents from birth254 local signatures · 112,809 nationwide
• Review the evidence and fund the addition of SMA to the Newborn Screening Test215 local signatures · 151,287 nationwide
• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office210 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide

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

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  Croftfoot railway station · 0.5 km

  Croftfoot railway station is a railway station in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, which lies close to the Glasgow City council area / South Lanarkshire boundary serving the Croftfoot area of the City of Glasgow and the S…

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  Castlemilk House · 0.7 km

  Castlemilk House was a country house located in what is now the Castlemilk district of Glasgow, Scotland. The house was the ancestral home of the Stirling-Stuart family and was built around the 15th-century Cassiltoun…

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  Croftfoot · 0.8 km

  Croftfoot is a residential area on the southeastern side of the Scottish city of Glasgow. It is bordered by Castlemilk to the south and King's Park to the west within Glasgow, and by the Rutherglen areas of Spittal to…

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  Overtoun Park · 0.9 km

  Overtoun Park is a public park in Rutherglen, South Lanarkshire, Scotland.

• Mid Lanarkshire · 1.0 km

  Mid Lanarkshire was a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (Westminster) from 1885 to 1918. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post voting sys…

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  Burnside railway station · 1.2 km

  Burnside railway station serves the Burnside and Blairbeth areas of the royal burgh of Rutherglen, South Lanarkshire, Scotland. The station is managed by ScotRail and is located on the Newton branch of the Cathcart Ci…

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)