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.

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

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 October 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.

There were 77 homicide offences recorded in the Republic of Ireland in 2024, compared with 88 in 2023. In the provided time period, homicides in Ireland increased from 2003 onwards, reaching a peak of 153 in 2007 before declining to the relatively low figures seen in the late 2010s.

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.

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Since 2014, Eurostat and the UNODC have launched a joint annual data collection on crime and criminal justice statistics, using the UN crime trends questionnaire and complementary Eurostat requests

for specific areas of interest to the European Commission. The data and metadata are collected from National Statistical Institutes or other relevant authorities (mainly police and justice departments) in each EU Member State, EFTA country and EU potential members. On the Eurostat website, data are available for 41 jurisdictions since 2008 until 2018 data and for 38 jurisdictions since 2019 data (EU-27, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Albania, Serbia, Turkey, Kosovo(1)), having drop the data for the United Kingdom separately owing to three separate jurisdictions England and Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland.

This joint data collection and other data collections carried out by Eurostat allows to gather information on:

• police-recorded offences by type of crime
• police-recorded offences by NUTS3 region
• intentional homicide and sexual violence victims and perpetrators (suspected, prosecuted, convicted) by sex
• intentional homicide victims by age, sex, and relationship to the offender
• intentional homicide victims and offences in largest cities
• offenders by justice legal status (suspected, prosecuted, convicted), age, sex, and citizenship
• persons brought before criminal courts by legal status (convicted persons/acquitted)
• personnel by institution (police, courts, and prisons) by sex
• legal cases in first instance courts by type and stage
• prisoners by age, sex, citizenship, and status of the trial process
• prison capacity and occupancy
• people involved in human trafficking by legal status (victims, suspected and convicted traffickers) and victims of human trafficking by all forms of exploitation and citizenship

Where available, data are broken down by sex, age groups (adults/juveniles), country of citizenship (foreigners or nationals) and other relevant variables. National data are available and for intentional homicide offences, city level data (largest cities) are available for some countries. Regional data at NUTS3 level are also available for some police-recorded offences.

Some historical series are available:

• Number of police-recorded crimes by type (intentional homicide, violence, robbery, home burglary, car thefts, and drug crimes) for the period 1993 – 2007
• Number of police-recorded homicide in cities for the period 1993 – 2007
• Number of police officers for the period 1993 – 2007
• Prison population for the period 1993 – 2007

Total number of police-recorded crimes for the period 1950 – 2000

(1) under United Nations Security Council Resolution 1244/99

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 .

In 2023/24 there were ******* crimes recorded by the police in Northern Ireland, compared with ******* 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 *******.

Ireland: Homicides per 100,000 people: The latest value from 2017 is 0.9 homicides per 100,000 people, an increase from 0.8 homicides per 100,000 people in 2016. In comparison, the world average is 7.4 homicides per 100,000 people, based on data from 97 countries. Historically, the average for Ireland from 1990 to 2017 is 1 homicides per 100,000 people. The minimum value, 0.5 homicides per 100,000 people, was reached in 1990 while the maximum of 1.8 homicides per 100,000 people was recorded in 2007.

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.

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

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.

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There were 33,295 crimes recorded by the Belfast City police district in 2023/24, the most of any policing district in Northern Ireland in the relevant reporting year.

London had the highest crime rate among regions of the United Kingdom in 2024/25, at approximately ***** crimes per 1,000 population, followed by Yorkshire and the Humber, at ***** crimes per 1,000 people. On a more local level, the police force area with the highest crime rate in England and Wales was that of Cleveland, in North East England. Although London had the fifth-highest crime rate among police force areas, it was lower than the crime rates of the West Yorkshire, Greater Manchester, and South Yorkshire police force areas as well. Is crime in the UK rising? Between the early 2000s and the mid-2010s, crime in the UK declined quite significantly. The crime rates of England and Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland all fell during this time period. From around 2013/14, however the crime rate in England and Wales began to rise again, approaching levels seen in the 2000s. In Scotland and Northern Ireland crime also stopped declining at the same rate, although there was no sudden increase as seen in England and Wales. Without adjusting for population-size, the overall number of crimes recorded by the police in England and Wales reached a peak of around 6.74 million offences in 2022/23, falling slightly in the two years since then. What kinds of crime are increasing? Although overall crime levels have increased, some types of crime have continued to decline. Overall theft offences for example, are far lower than in the 2000s. This is partly due to the decline in burglaries, and vehicle theft offences. Shoplifting offences, by contrast have spiked since the COVID-19 pandemic, reaching a peak of over ******* offences in 2024/25. Additionally, the number of violence against the person offences surged from 2014/15 onwards, with the number of sexual offences also at far higher levels than in the recent past.

Crimes at Garda Stations Level 2010-2016

The homicide rate in Northern Ireland in 2023/24 was *** homicides per million population, compared with **** in the 2022/23 reporting year. The homicide rate was highest in this provided time period in 2002/03, when there were **** homicides per million people.

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