{"id":903527,"date":"2026-04-18T21:48:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T21:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/903527\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T21:48:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T21:48:16","slug":"the-cheapest-commuter-towns-near-glasgow-and-edinburgh-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/903527\/","title":{"rendered":"The cheapest commuter towns near Glasgow and Edinburgh revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"

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SCOTLAND\u2019S cheapest commuter towns where you could save as much as \u00a31,700 a year have been revealed.<\/p>\n

Lofty rent costs in Edinburgh<\/a> and Glasgow<\/a> often force people to look elsewhere for accommodation.<\/p>\n

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Livingston is a popular commuter town for those who work in Edinburgh Credit: Andrew Barr<\/p>\n

Monthly lease fees are usually much cheaper outside of cities and can save you thousands of pounds a year.<\/p>\n

Some commuter towns are seeing big jumps in the number of people flocking to them.<\/p>\n

Outside of Glasgow, demand for the nearby town of Motherwell<\/a> has risen by a third, according to analysis by the flat share site SpareRoom of the UK\u2019s most popular cities and towns among flat sharers.<\/p>\n

Choosing to stay in the North Lanarkshire<\/a> town could save you \u00a31,180 a year, once you\u2019ve factored in commuting costs of approximately \u00a3907.20 a year.<\/p>\n

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Motherwell has handy commuter links, with three train stations and the M74 and M8 close by.<\/p>\n

The post-industrial town has an average house price of \u00a3218,526, compared to \u00a3277,495 in Glasgow.<\/p>\n

Motherwell\u2019s average room rental price of \u00a3509 per month was also found to be the cheapest in Scotland among the commuter towns analysed.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere, moving to Livingston, which is just a 24-minute commute from Edinburgh, would save you a huge \u00a31,726 a year \u2013 even with travel costs factored in.<\/p>\n

You\u2019d pay just \u00a3580 a month in rent on average, compared with \u00a3813 in Edinburgh \u2013 a saving of \u00a3233 a month, or \u00a32,796 a year.<\/p>\n

Your yearly travel into the city three days a week would set you back about \u00a31,070 a, still leaving you with plenty of savings.<\/p>\n

If you were to buy the average house price in Livingston is \u00a3290,364, according to Lloyds Banking group.<\/p>\n

The area is much more affordable than the capital, where it is \u00a3352,996.<\/p>\n

Livingston is the biggest town in West Lothian and is known for its good shopping, including the Livingston Designer Outlet.<\/p>\n

Kilmarnock, around half an hour from Glasgow, was found to have the highest priced rooms among the Scottish commuter towns analysed, with average rents costing \u00a3588 per month.<\/p>\n

Matt Hutchinson, director of SpareRoom, said: \u201cGiven how high rents are now compared to where they were five years ago, people are faced with no choice but to chase affordability.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen even flatsharers are turning away from major cities to surrounding towns, you know there\u2019s a huge problem with affordability.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut it\u2019s really important to weigh up the cost of a longer commute versus the potential savings on rent before making a move.\u201d<\/p>\n

Motherwell is an affordable town for people who work in Glasgow Credit: Alamy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SCOTLAND\u2019S cheapest commuter towns where you could save as much as \u00a31,700 a year have been revealed. Lofty…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":903528,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7826],"tags":[939,748,487,918,4884,940,712,16,15],"class_list":["post-903527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-glasgow","tag-bills","tag-britain","tag-cost-of-living","tag-glasgow","tag-great-britain","tag-money-saving","tag-scotland","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116427915842454805","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=903527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/903528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=903527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=903527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=903527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}