Spittal (South Lanarkshire)

5°CClear

• Today: 9° / 4° · 34% rain
• Tomorrow: 9° / 7° · Patchy rain nearby

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 07:31Sunset 16:29

8h 57m of daylight today

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

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

32US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · South Lanarkshire Rutherglen, United Kingdom

220 reported road collisions (2025)

104 killed or seriously injured · 296 casualties · 6.6 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

500+ food businesses within 2 miles

• 331 passed
• 37 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

£186,196 average▲ 3.9% YoY

Across South Lanarkshire · to 2026-08

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

• Cheapest petrol: 167.7p · Asda (8.3 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 191.7p · Asda (7.5 km)

16 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

150 charging locations within ~8 km

• 31 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

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

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

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

11,490 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

£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 58% · Nuclear 42%

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:

• Hold a referendum on abolishing the Scottish Parliament & Government303 local signatures · 17,029 nationwide
• Change surrogacy law to recognise intended parents from birth254 local signatures · 113,305 nationwide
• Launch a public inquiry into illegal migration in the UK108 local signatures · 78,478 nationwide
• Make statutory maternity pay 90% of wage for first 12 weeks & minimum wage after105 local signatures · 58,157 nationwide
• End the mandatory fortification of white flour with folic acid immediately98 local signatures · 76,640 nationwide

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

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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)