Scotland

Stirling: house prices, jobs and local statistics

Stirling is a council area in Scotland. The average house price was £239,034 in July 2026, up 2.5% on a year earlier and up 21.9% on five years before. On the ONS figure for July 2026 it had the 214th highest average price of 360 council areas. 2.3% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming unemployment-related benefits in August 2026, against 3.9% across the UK. Median full-time pay for people living here was £43,559 a year in 2025 (UK: £39,039). The biggest employing sector is retail, wholesale & motor trade, with 15.3% of the 45,850 employee jobs counted in 2024.

Census figures here cover England and Wales only: Scotland's census was held in 2022 and is published by National Records of Scotland.
The health and education indicators shown for English councils are published for England only.

Stirling house prices

Average price, July 2026

£239,034

Scotland: £196,349

Change over 1 year

+2.5%

Scotland: +2.3%

Change over 5 years

+21.9%

Since July 2021

Detached: £451,827
Semi-detached: £258,645
Terraced: £217,386
Flat or maisonette: £145,487
First-time buyers: £184,361

UK House Price Index, July 2026: HM Land Registry, Registers of Scotland, Land and Property Services NI and the ONS. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. About the index.

Ten years of prices and sales in the house price explorer

Jobs, pay and unemployment in Stirling

Claimant rate, August 2026

2.3%

1,385 people aged 16 to 64. UK: 3.9%

Employment rate, Apr 2025-Mar 2026

73.2%

UK: 75.4% · Annual Population Survey

Unemployment rate, Apr 2025-Mar 2026

4.0%

UK: 4.5%

Economically inactive

23.7%

UK: 21.0%

Median full-time pay, 2025

£43,559 a year

UK: £39,039

Median weekly pay, 2025

£833

UK: £767

The claimant count is people claiming unemployment-related benefits as a share of residents aged 16 to 64; the unemployment rate is the survey measure of people out of work and looking. Pay is for full-time employees who live in the area.

Claimant count, Annual Population Survey and Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (resident analysis), via Nomis. Source: Office for National Statistics, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Two years of claimant counts and ten of pay in the jobs explorer

What Stirling does for a living

Employee jobs, 2024

45,850

48,145 in 2019

Businesses, 2026

3,935

Largest sectors by share of employee jobs, 2024
Sector	Share of jobs	Great Britain
Retail, wholesale & motor trade	15.3%	13.6%
Hotels, pubs & restaurants	10.9%	7.8%
Health & social care	10.9%	14.1%
Education	9.8%	8.6%
Construction	7.6%	5.0%
Admin & support services	7.6%	8.5%

Business Register and Employment Survey 2024 (Great Britain only). UK Business Counts 2026. Both via Nomis. Source: Office for National Statistics, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Every sector and business size in the industries explorer

How Stirling has changed

Residents
80,930 in 1991 → 94,210 in 2024 (+16.4%)
Scotland over the same years: +9.1%
Average house price
£126,023 in 2005 → £239,034 in 2026 (+89.7%)
Scotland over the same years: +84.3%
Median weekly pay
£379 in 2008 → £645 in 2025 (+70.3%)
Scotland over the same years: +70.4%
Employment rate
74.5% in 2004 → 79.4% in 2023 (+6.6%)
Scotland over the same years: +2.9%
Claimant count
2.4% in 2001 → 2.2% in 2025 (−8.3%)
Scotland over the same years: −9.1%
Disposable income per head
£11,291 in 1997 → £26,176 in 2024 (+131.8%)
Scotland over the same years: +153.7%

ONS Explore local statistics, each series from its official producer; Office for National Statistics content licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Money figures are in cash terms, not adjusted for inflation.

Every series, charted, in the trends explorer

How Stirling ranks among UK councils

30 official indicators are published for Stirling; 23 of them have a better and a worse direction and are ranked here. A rank of 1st is the best (lowest unemployment, highest pay, and so on).

Where it ranks best

Children in relative poverty · Economy & work10.9% (2024/25) · 7th lowest of 363
Qualified to A level or above · Education & skills83.1% (2023) · 15th highest of 348
Public EV chargers · Connectivity & access510.6 per 100,000 (mid-2026) · 16th highest of 361
Smokers · Health & wellbeing8.8% (2020 to 2024) · 63rd lowest of 373

Where it ranks worst

4G coverage · Connectivity & access88.2% (January 2026) · 359th highest of 361
Home gas use · Environment11,099 kWh (2024/25) · 301st lowest of 347
Business births · Economy & work8.6% (2024) · 311th highest of 361
Gigabit broadband · Connectivity & access77.2% (January 2026) · 305th highest of 361

ONS Explore local statistics, latest figure for each indicator, ranked among council areas with a published figure; Office for National Statistics content licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0, each indicator’s producer named on its linked ONS page.

All 30 indicators in the area scorecard

About these figures

Stirling (S12000030) is a council area in Scotland, one of 361 council areas this site covers. Every figure on this page is read from the official source named beneath it and carries its own date; the page is rebuilt at most once a day. Survey figures carry sampling error, so small differences between neighbouring councils are often noise. For a single street or neighbourhood rather than the whole council area, search a postcode on the dashboard.

Sources

HM Land Registry UK House Price Index (landregistry.data.gov.uk). Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right, OGL v3.0.
Office for National Statistics via Nomis (nomisweb.co.uk): claimant count, Annual Population Survey, ASHE, BRES, UK Business Counts and Census 2021. Source: Office for National Statistics, OGL v3.0.
ONS Explore local statistics (ons.gov.uk/explore-local-statistics), OGL v3.0.
Council area names and codes: mySociety, UK local authority names and codes (CC BY 4.0), from the ONS Register of Geographic Codes.