Ireland crime rate per 100K population for 2021 was 0.44, a 33.87% decline from 2020.

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<li>Ireland crime rate per 100K population for 2020 was <strong>0.67</strong>, a <strong>2.08% increase</strong> from 2019.</li>
<li>Ireland crime rate per 100K population for 2019 was <strong>0.65</strong>, a <strong>18.98% decline</strong> from 2018.</li>
<li>Ireland crime rate per 100K population for 2018 was <strong>0.81</strong>, a <strong>1.3% decline</strong> from 2017.</li>
</ul>Intentional homicides are estimates of unlawful homicides purposely inflicted as a result of domestic disputes, interpersonal violence, violent conflicts over land resources, intergang violence over turf or control, and predatory violence and killing by armed groups. Intentional homicide does not include all intentional killing; the difference is usually in the organization of the killing. Individuals or small groups usually commit homicide, whereas killing in armed conflict is usually committed by fairly cohesive groups of up to several hundred members and is thus usually excluded.

In 2024, there were over 221,590 crime offences recorded in the Republic of Ireland, an increase from the previous year. Between 2003 and 2008, the number of crime offences in Ireland increased to a peak of 297,540 followed by a similarly steep decline in offences between 2008 and 2013.

Northern Ireland's crime rate has fallen from 81.4 crimes per 1,000 people in 2002/03 to 58.3 in 2023/24, when fraud is including the crime rate of Northern Ireland was 57.1 crimes per 1,000 people in 2023/24. During this time period, Norther Ireland's crime rate saw the biggest decline in its crime rate between 2002/03 and 2003/04 when it dropped from 81.4 to 73.3.

Ireland - Population reporting occurrence of crime, violence or vandalism in their area was 9.60% in December of 2023, according to the EUROSTAT. Trading Economics provides the current actual value, an historical data chart and related indicators for Ireland - Population reporting occurrence of crime, violence or vandalism in their area - last updated from the EUROSTAT on July of 2025. Historically, Ireland - Population reporting occurrence of crime, violence or vandalism in their area reached a record high of 16.50% in December of 2006 and a record low of 8.30% in December of 2019.

In 2023/24 there were 104,344 crimes recorded by the police in Northern Ireland, compared with 111,411 in the previous year, which was the fewest number of crimes during this provided time period. By contrast, the reporting year with the most crimes in Northern Ireland was 2002/03, when there were 138,132.

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The Police Service of Northern Ireland produces statistics on the number of crimes reported to police in Northern Ireland. Statistics are published on a financial year basis and a comparable data series has been available since 1998/99. These statistics are collected in accordance with the National Crime Recording Standard (NCRS) and the Home Office Counting Rules (HOCR). Except for some differences in legislation, they are comparable with police recorded crime statistics in England & Wales.

Ireland: Property crimes per 100,000 people: The latest value from is crimes per 100,000 people, unavailable from crimes per 100,000 people in . In comparison, the world average is 0.00 crimes per 100,000 people, based on data from countries. Historically, the average for Ireland from to is crimes per 100,000 people. The minimum value, crimes per 100,000 people, was reached in while the maximum of crimes per 100,000 people was recorded in .

Context

This Dataset contains complete information of all types of crimes committed in Ireland from the year 2003 to 2019. The data is given Garda Division( An Administrative division of Ireland ) and is given QUARTERLY

Content

Type of Offences given are :: 01 Homicide offences, 02 Sexual offences, 03 Attempts/threats to murder, assaults, harassments and related offences, 04 Dangerous or negligent acts, 05 Kidnapping and related offences, 06 Robbery/extortion and hijacking offences, 07 Burglary and related offences, 08 Theft and related offences, 09 Fraud/ deception and related offences, 10 Controlled Drug offences, 11 Weapons and Explosives offences, 12 Damage to Property and to the Environment, 13 Public order and other social code offences, 15 Offences against government/ justice procedures and organisation of crime

Inspiration

We can try to answer many Questions via this Data.

1) Changing trends of Crime in Ireland 2) Region wise distribution of crime in Ireland 3) Status of various sociological issues in Ireland( eg. Alcoholism) and its role in Crime

Acknowledgements

This data set in its original form has been taken from StatBank, Central Statistics Office, Govt. of Ireland website - > https://statbank.cso.ie/

NOTE - As told by Statbank, the crime data is under 'Reservation' and according to Statbank does not meet the prerequisites of the CSO benchmarks

NOTE - As of January 2020, the Garda Divisions have been trimmed down to 19 as from the past 28. This dataset does NOT reflect the recent reduction in the number of Garda Divisions.

In 2023/24 there were 44,143 violent crimes recorded by the police in Northern Ireland, compared with 49,992 in the previous reporting year.

Financial Year statistics on Recorded Crime in Northern Ireland.

Source agency: Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI)

Designation: National Statistics

Language: English

Alternative title: PSNI Annual Statistics: Recorded Crime in Northern Ireland

Historical dataset showing Ireland crime rate per 100K population by year from 1990 to 2021.

In 2023/24 the crime rate of Northern Ireland stood at 55 crimes per 1,000 people, with the policing district of Belfast City having the highest crime rate of 96 crimes per 1,000 people.

Creating our Future was a Government of Ireland and Science Foundation Ireland initiative that ‘provided an opportunity for everyone in Ireland to give ideas on how to make our country better for all’ by allowing the public to submit research ideas that might ‘inspire researchers to make a better future for Ireland.’

Subtitled ‘a national conversation on research in Ireland’, Creating our Future received 18,062 online submissions (Jul-Nov 2021). All submissions were published in a searchable database in August 2022, alongside authors’ stated age ranges and counties of residence (when provided). A thematic category (e.g. ‘Politics and Policymaking’, ‘Equality, Diversity and Inclusion’, ‘Health and Social Care’, ‘Digital World’, etc.) was also assigned to each submission after ‘expert analysis was complete to facilitate public use’ (see ‘Information on Submissions’ here).

Funded by the National Open Research Forum (which itself was funded by the Higher Education Authority), partners and research assistants from the Criminal justice Open Research Dialogue (CORD) Partnership used the secondary dataset from Creating our Future to create a subset of data including 245 submissions which related to crime or criminal justice issues. Details about the process and ideas for the analysis of this dataset can be found on the website of the European Network for Open Criminology (link to be added shortly).

Findings from the Northern Ireland Crime Survey focusing on experiences and perceptions of crime in both Northern Ireland and England & Wales.

Source agency: Justice (Northern Ireland)

Designation: National Statistics

Language: English

Alternative title: Perceptions of Crime: Findings from the Northern Ireland Crime Survey

Findings from the Northern Ireland Crime Survey focusing on crime victimisation and prevalence rates in both Northern Ireland and England & Wales.

Source agency: Justice (Northern Ireland)

Designation: National Statistics

Language: English

Alternative title: Experience of Crime: Findings from the Northern Ireland Crime Survey

CVS35 - How confident persons are that the wider criminal justice system has brought people who commit crimes in Ireland to justice. Published by Central Statistics Office. Available under the license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC-BY-4.0).How confident persons are that the wider criminal justice system has brought people who commit crimes in Ireland to justice...

There were 1,957 hate crimes reported by the police in Northern Ireland in 2023/24, which was an increase on the previous reporting year when there were 2,264.

Findings from the Northern Ireland Crime Survey focusing on experiences and perceptions of Policing, Justice and Organised Crime, in both Northern Ireland and England & Wales.

Source agency: Justice (Northern Ireland)

Designation: Official Statistics not designated as National Statistics

Language: English

Alternative title: Perceptions of Policing, Justice and Organised Crime: Findings from the Northern Ireland Crime Survey

How Confident persons are that the wider criminal justice system has brought people who commit Crimes in Ireland to justice