Innerleithen

11°CSunny

• Today: 15° / 8° · 25% rain
• Tomorrow: 18° / 11° · Overcast

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:38Sunset 19:37

12h 59m of daylight today

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

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

52US AQI · Moderate

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Auchencorth Moss, United Kingdom

87 reported road collisions (2024)

44 killed or seriously injured · 141 casualties · 7.4 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

41 food businesses within 2 miles

• 32 passed
• 3 need improvement

Source: Food Standards Agency

• 6 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap

£191,555 average▲ 4.6% YoY

Across Scottish Borders · to 2026-06

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

1 charging location within ~8 km

• 1 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 140 kW
• Nearest: Macdonald Cardrona Hotel (4.4 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports pitches7
• Playgrounds6

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

116,800 residents in Scottish Borders

• Under 16: 15%
• 16–64: 57%
• 65+: 28%

Source: ONS mid-year estimates (local authority)

Among the least deprived areas in Scotland

2% of neighbourhoods are in Scotland’s most deprived 10%; 6% in the most deprived 20%

Source: Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation 2020

David Mundell

Conservative

Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale

Source: UK Parliament

Conservative / Independent coalition

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

• Schools1
• GPs & clinics1
• Pharmacies1
• Supermarkets1
• Parks & greens9
• Restaurants & cafés6

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

5,895 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

15 jobs advertised · £27,327 avg

e.g. Relief Night Support Supervisor - St Ronan's Residential Home - SBO09575, Relief Support Worker - St Ronan's Care Home - SBO09467, Relief Laundry Assistant - St Ronan's Care Home - SBO10319

Source: Adzuna

£708 median full-time weekly pay

2.8% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£25,427 disposable income per head (2024)

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

91% low-carbon electricity

Nuclear 69% · Solar 13% · Imports 9% · Wind 8%

2 gCO₂/kWh · very low intensity

Latest estimate for South Scotland · National Grid ESO

• Life satisfaction7.6
• Feeling worthwhile7.9
• Happiness yesterday7.3
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)2.9

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

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale:

• Do not ban social media for under 16s296 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide
• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership277 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office238 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide
• Support the Ceramics Industry and protect British manufacturing jobs and skills161 local signatures · 110,383 nationwide
• Reduce Vehicle Excise Duty by 50% for vehicles aged 20 to 39 years116 local signatures · 54,314 nationwide

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

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  Robert Smail's Printing Works · 0.1 km

  Robert Smail's Printing Works is a fully functional Victorian era letterpress printing works in the small Scottish Borders town of Innerleithen, now preserved by The National Trust for Scotland as an Industrial Herita…

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  Vale of Leithen F.C. · 0.1 km

  Vale of Leithen Football Club are a football club based in the town of Innerleithen, thirty miles south of Edinburgh, capital city of Scotland.

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  Innerleithen · 0.3 km

  Innerleithen is a market town and civil parish in the committee area of Tweeddale, in the Scottish Borders, Scotland. It was formerly in the historic county of Peeblesshire or Tweeddale. It had a population of 3,152 i…

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  Leithen Water · 0.4 km

  Leithen Water is a tributary of the River Tweed in Scotland. It rises in the Moorfoot Hills and joins the Tweed at the south end of the town of Innerleithen, whose name comes from the Scottish Gaelic inbhir, meaning a…

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  Innerleithen railway station · 0.4 km

  Innerleithen railway station served the town of Innerleithen, Scottish Borders, Scotland from 1864 to 1962 on the Peebles Railway.

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  Traquair House · 1.2 km

  Traquair House, approximately 7 miles southeast of Peebles, is claimed to be the oldest continually inhabited house in Scotland. Whilst not strictly a castle, it is built in the style of a fortified mansion. It pre-da…

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