Banknock

12°COvercast

• Today: 18° / 10° · 83% rain
• Tomorrow: 16° / 9° · 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

34US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Falkirk Haggs, United Kingdom

93 reported road collisions (2024)

41 killed or seriously injured · 132 casualties · 5.8 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

44 food businesses within 2 miles

• 38 passed
• 4 need improvement

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Cumbernauld (5.5 km)
• 2 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£173,497 average▲ 5.3% YoY

Across Falkirk · to 2026-06

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

• Cheapest petrol: 166.7p · Asda (4.7 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 187.9p · Jet (11 km)

10 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

19 charging locations within ~8 km

• 7 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 150 kW
• Nearest: Power Networks Demonstration Centre, Wardpark (2.2 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports pitches2
• Playgrounds6

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

160,230 residents in Falkirk

• Under 16: 16%
• 16–64: 63%
• 65+: 20%

Source: ONS mid-year estimates (local authority)

Less deprived than the average in Scotland

6% of neighbourhoods are in Scotland’s most deprived 10%; 16% in the most deprived 20%

Source: Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation 2020

Euan Stainbank

Labour

Falkirk

Source: UK Parliament

SNP (minority)

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

• Schools1
• Pharmacies1
• Supermarkets1
• Parks & greens4
• Restaurants & cafés2

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

4,565 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

9 jobs advertised · £25,001 avg

e.g. Become a Psychology Tutor in Banknock – Flexible & Remote, Become a Guitar Tutor in Banknock – Flexible & Remote, Online Guitar Tutor - Part Time

Source: Adzuna

£741 median full-time weekly pay

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

£22,880 disposable income per head (2024)

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

100% low-carbon electricity

Wind 81% · Nuclear 18% · Solar 2%

0 gCO₂/kWh · very low intensity

Latest estimate for South Scotland · National Grid ESO

• Life satisfaction7.6
• Feeling worthwhile7.9
• Happiness yesterday7.5
• 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 Falkirk:

• Do not ban social media for under 16s401 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide
• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership377 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office285 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide
• Change surrogacy law to recognise intended parents from birth161 local signatures · 112,809 nationwide
• Review the evidence and fund the addition of SMA to the Newborn Screening Test139 local signatures · 151,287 nationwide

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

• 
  Banknock railway station · 0.2 km

  Banknock railway station served the village of Banknock in Scotland. The station was served by trains on the lines from Kilsyth New to Bonnybridge.

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  Banknock · 0.3 km

  Banknock is a village within the Falkirk council area in Central Scotland. The village is 6.7 miles (10.8 km) west-southwest of Falkirk, 3.9 miles (6.3 km) east-northeast of Kilsyth and 3.0 miles (4.8 km) north-northe…

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  Red Burn · 0.9 km

  The Red Burn is one of two main streams which flow out of Cumbernauld. The Scottish New Town’s name derives from the Gaelic for "the meeting of the waters" and there is broad agreement that one of these waters is the…

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  Braeface · 1.0 km

  Braeface is a village in Falkirk, Scotland.

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  Haggs · 1.1 km

  Haggs is a small village in the Falkirk council area of Scotland. The village is situated 2.1 miles (3.4 km) south-west of Bonnybridge, 4.6 miles (7.4 km) north-northeast of Kilsyth and 2.0 miles (3.2 km) south-southw…

• Castlecary railway station · 1.1 km

  Castlecary railway station served the village of Castlecary, North Lanarkshire, Scotland from 1842 to 1967 on the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)