Glasgow City's crime rate of *** crimes per 10,000 people was the highest of any region of Scotland in 2024/25. The rate for the whole of Scotland was *** per 10,000 people, which appears to be driven by low crime in places such as the Shetland Islands, with almost all Scottish cities reporting higher than average crime rates. In Dundee, the crime rate was *** crimes per 10,000 people, while in the Scottish capital, Edinburgh, the crime rate was *** per 10,000 population. Comparisons with the rest of the UK When compared with the rest of the United Kingdom, Scotland has experienced a noticeable decline in its overall crime rate. In 2008/09 for example, Scotland's crime rate was higher than that of England and Wales, as well as Northern Ireland, the other two jurisdictions in the UK. In 2022/23, however, Scotland's crime rate was the lowest in the UK, with the crime rate in England and Wales rising noticeably during the same period. Scotland's homicide rate has also fallen, from being the highest in the UK in 2002/03, to the lowest in 2022/23. What types of crime increased in recent years? The overall number of crimes recorded by the Scottish police since the mid 2010s has remained broadly stable, with ******* offences reported in 2024/25. Specific types of crime have, however, increased in recent times. In 2024/25, for example, there were ****** sexual crimes reported by the police, compared with ***** ten years earlier. As in the rest of the UK, shoplifting has increased rapidly since the COVID-19 pandemic, reaching a peak of ****** offences in the 2024/25 reporting year.

In 2024/25 the crime rate in Scotland was *** crimes per 10,000 people, one of the lowest crime rates recorded in this time period. After peaking at ***** in 2004/05, the crime rate in Scotland has fallen significantly, reaching a low in the 2021/22 reporting year.

There were 299,111 crimes recorded by the police in Scotland in 2024/25, a similar figure to the previous year, when there were 299,790 crimes reported. During this time period, there is a clear trend of falling crime, with 2004/05 having the highest number of crimes and 2021/22 the fewest.

In 2024/25, there were 71,170 non-sexual violent crimes recorded by the police in Scotland. The number of violent crimes in Scotland has generally fallen throughout this period, from a peak of 92,266 in 2002/03 to a low of 61,913 in 2020/21.

In the 2024/25 reporting year, there were 52,406 crimes recorded in Glasgow City, the most of any local authority in Scotland. The Shetland Islands, by comparison, had just 414 crimes recorded in the same period.

A detailed overview of crimes and offences recorded by the police over the past decade, for Scotland, police force areas and local authorities.

Source agency: Scottish Government

Designation: National Statistics

Language: English

Alternative title: Recorded Crime in Scotland

About Dataset

This dataset was built from public records produced by the Scottish Government and details all crimes and offences committed during 2022 and 2023.

Dataset Overview:

The dataset includes 58 different types of crimes along with their locations (split up into areas).

Some Data Science Applications:

- Predictive Modeling: Utilizing historical data to forecast future crime/offence levels.

- Trend Analysis: Identifying patterns and trends in crime over time and across different locations to understand the impact of how the location affects the crime.

Ethically Obtained Data:

The data has been ethically sourced from statistics.gov.scot, a platform dedicated to making publicly available data accessible and usable. You can explore the dataset further at Recorded Crimes and Offences.

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

In the 2024/25 reporting year there were 299,111 crimes recorded by the police in Scotland, with 111,054 of these crimes categorized as crimes of dishonesty, the most common crime type in this year.

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The 694 data zones in Glasgow ranked in 2012, 2009, and 2006 for the crime domain in the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD). Each data zone also has a local ranking i.e. within Glasgow to ease comparison for that data zone over time and within the city. Intermediate Geographies and political geographies such as the 2011 Scottish Parliamentary Constituencies, multi-member wards are also included. Datazones nest directly into intermediate geographies and local authorities but do not fit exactly into higher geographies like multi-member wards, SIMD FAQ The Scottish Government describes this index as follows, 'The Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation identifies small area concentrations of multiple deprivation across all of Scotland in a consistent way. It allows effective targeting of policies and funding where the aim is to wholly or partly tackle or take account of area concentrations of multiple deprivation. The SIMD ranks small areas (called data zones) from most deprived (ranked 1) to least deprived (ranked 6,505). People using the SIMD will often focus on the data zones below a certain rank, for example, the 5%, 10%, 15% or 20% most deprived data zones in Scotland.' How to use the SIMD - Scottish Government Guidance Data extracted 2013-12-17 from opendatascotland.org and data.glasgow.gov.uk Data supplied by The Scottish Government Licence: None simd-crime-2006-2012-glasgow-v2.xlsx - https://dataservices.open.glasgow.gov.uk/Download/Organisation/728522f0-86da-48c6-8f75-1649934eb8a4/Dataset/e021aa52-e858-4770-bd2b-733a9c53d84d/File/56b9ecbd-340b-4f6c-8c26-adfd0205c04e/Version/8d4fa076-3db5-4c40-ab0a-531ba242aeb0

The homicide rate in Scotland was **** homicides per one million people in the 2023/24 reporting year, compared with **** homicides per one million people in 2004/05.

Scotland's Health, Housing and Crime Statistics

Exploring Multifaceted Issues with Machine Learning

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About this dataset

This dataset of 60 Scottish statistical indicators offers the opportunity to explore open government data with machine learning, covering 7 categories – health, social care, housing and crime and justice. Drawn from a total of 6,976 “2011 data zones” in Scotland that provide a variety of information from 2015, it delves into the intricate details of local populations to reveal potential insights. With features on crucial measures such as travel times by car and public transport, chimney fires ratio and educational attainment scores - this dataset provides a rich source of reliable statistics for use in business analysis or policy making. Uncover trends through the exploration of Scottish socio-economic conditions at both an individual and communal scale!

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How to use the dataset

This dataset, entitled Scotland’s Health, Housing and Crime Statistics provides an integrated set of 60 Scottish statistical indicators from seven categories - health, social care, housing, and crime and justice - derived from a total of 6,976 “2011 data zones” in Scotland.

To assist you in exploring these data points we have provided a guide on how to approach and make effective use of the information available.

1. Read through the descriptions of each indicator carefully to understand what each measure is assessing. This will help you determine which indicators may be more relevant to your research topic or project objectives.

2. Consider the time period covered by the dataset – this gives you an indication as to how up-to-date or recent these measures are likely to be; it also provides context for interpreting their accuracy within a given frame of reference e.g., if the measures are captured across five years then they represent changes over time rather than snapshots in one particular year only).

3. Compare different indicators – look for correlations between variables that suggest either higher incidents or risk factors being related in some way or other; likewise bear any traditional assumptions associated with certain topics at bay as there may possibly exist divergent patterns in this analysis that challenge existing ideas about certain subject matter areas (this could offer significant insight into new insights for further research investigations).

4. Use visualisations when exploring your data points; graphical representations can often demonstrate patterns intuitively which helps paint a broader picture around key themes within your research question(s) that might explain causation issues such as root causes etc.. .

5. Explore regional differences too – breaking down aggregate measures into subcomponents like geography (e..g province/region/state level), gender etc., can provide potential areas where localised interventions can be implemented with greater focus moving forward according to differing needs arising across different places/groups with different characteristics associated on them (eag population health disparities exist). Furthermore when exploring regional differences you should also take temporal aspects into consideration e..g whether levels measured today vary significantly from comparable numbers observed during previous periods or vice versa)

Research Ideas

• Identifying correlations between different statistical indicators to develop an overall health report for each data zone in Scotland. By analyzing both health and housing indicators, a comprehensive view of the living conditions in each area can be obtained, providing the government with insights for appropriate policy interventions.
• Predictive modeling to analyze future crime trends based on existing crime data from various locations across Scotland. This could help governments plan better security measures and allocate resources more effectively in order to protect their population more efficiently.
• Extensive use of machine learning algorithms such as clustering and classification on this dataset could give insight into whether certain indicator values are predictors of other values or not, which could then be used directly by governments when making economic policies associated with these values (e.g., housing prices). Furthermore, a comparison between actual outcomes with those predicted by models based on the dataset could be done easily to adjust policies appropriately according to real-time findings if needed

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Crimes cleared up by the police as a percentage of those recorded.

Combined Violent and Property Crime Offenses Known to Law Enforcement in Scotland County, NC was 342.00000 Known Incidents in January of 2021, according to the United States Federal Reserve. Historically, Combined Violent and Property Crime Offenses Known to Law Enforcement in Scotland County, NC reached a record high of 809.00000 in January of 2008 and a record low of 57.00000 in January of 2016. Trading Economics provides the current actual value, an historical data chart and related indicators for Combined Violent and Property Crime Offenses Known to Law Enforcement in Scotland County, NC - last updated from the United States Federal Reserve on November of 2025.

FBI National Incident-Based Reporting System (FBI NIBRS) crime data for Scotland County Sheriff's Office (County) in North Carolina, including incidents, statistics, demographics, and detailed incident information.

Combined Violent and Property Crime Offenses Known to Law Enforcement in Scotland County, MO was 22.00000 Known Incidents in January of 2018, according to the United States Federal Reserve. Historically, Combined Violent and Property Crime Offenses Known to Law Enforcement in Scotland County, MO reached a record high of 58.00000 in January of 2012 and a record low of 22.00000 in January of 2015. Trading Economics provides the current actual value, an historical data chart and related indicators for Combined Violent and Property Crime Offenses Known to Law Enforcement in Scotland County, MO - last updated from the United States Federal Reserve on November of 2025.

FBI National Incident-Based Reporting System (FBI NIBRS) crime data for Scotland Neck Police Department (City) in North Carolina, including incidents, statistics, demographics, and detailed incident information.