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.

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.

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 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.

The most recent Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD) was published in January 2020. This dataset contains the indicators that were used to calculate SIMD 2016 and SIMD 2020 crime domains.

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.

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.

This dataset provides police recorded crime counts and related resident population estimates for all violence and burglary (housebreaking in Scotland) (data on burglary and violence is provided separately) for the financial years 2004-5 to 2015-16. This is a longitudinal data set with data aggregated by year to financial years (1st April in one year to 31st March in following year) for the years 2004-5 to 2015-16 inclusive. Data runs from 1st April 2004 as this is the date from which all nations had national crime recording standards for police recorded crime. The dataset has been prepared to provide comparative data at the regional level - in this case - local authority districts for Scotland, and Community Safety Partnerships (CSPs) as at 2015-16 in England and Wales. Data for England and Wales are directly comparable. As Scotland, and England and Wales, have different legal systems, and different police crime recording standards, the recorded crime definitions of violence and burglary (housebreaking) used here aim to provide the best available comparable data between the countries, but precise definitions of violence and burglary (housebreaking) used in the Scottish, and the English and Welsh, legal systems are not the same. Community Safety Partnerships (CSPs), previously also called Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnerships, are comprised of one or more English or Welsh district or unitary local authorities. Over time, some CSPs have merged and / or added additional local authorities to the partnership, this may also lead to change of partnership name. The CSPs used here are those current as listed in Home Office open data tables on recorded crime for 2015-16 (downloaded in February 2017). Police recorded crime data are data reported to and recorded by the police. Not all crimes are reported to the police, and not all reported crime are subsequently recorded. Data used from England Wales to derive this dataset do not have National Statistics status, this was withdrawn in January 2014. Data for Scotland had National Statistics status withdrawn in July 2014 but reinstated in September 2016. These data are derived entirely from open data as defined in the Open Government Licence version 3 (OGL3).The Applied Quantitative Methods Network (AQMeN) Phase II is a Research Centre that aims to develop a dynamic and pioneering set of projects to improve our understanding of current social issues in the UK and provide policy makers and practitioners with the evidence to build a better future. Three principal cross-cutting research strands will exploit existing high-quality data resources: Education and Social Stratification will focus on social class differences in entry to, progression in and attainment at tertiary education and how they affect individuals' labour market outcomes and their civic participation; Crime and Victimisation will explore the dramatic change in crime rates in Scotland and other jurisdictions and examines the determinants and impact of criminal careers amongst populations of offenders; and Urban Segmentation and Inequality which will create innovative new measures of social segmentation and combine these with cutting-edge longitudinal and sorting-model techniques to explore the causes of neighbourhood segmentation, household location choice and neighbourhood inequalities. Five additional projects will focus on the referendum on Scottish independence, location dynamics and ethnicity and exploiting existing datasets. The research will fed into training activities and knowledge exchange events aimed at boosting capacity in quantitative methods amongst the UK social science community.

The Scottish Crime and Justice Survey (SCJS) is a social survey which asks people about their experiences and perceptions of crime in Scotland. The survey is an important resource for both the government and public of Scotland. Respondents are selected at random from the Postal Address File and participation in the survey is entirely voluntary. The main aims of the SCJS are to:

• provide reliable statistics on people's experience of crime in Scotland, including services provided to victims of crime
• assess the varying risk of crime for different groups of people in the population
• examine trends in the level and nature of crime in Scotland over time
• collect information about people's experiences of, and attitudes on a range of crime and justice related issues

An important role of the SCJS is to provide an alternative and complementary measure of crime to police recorded crime statistics. For further details of the scope and methodology of the SCJS, please see documentation. Information about the survey and links to publications may be found on the Scottish Government's Scottish Crime and Justice Survey webpages.

Background and history of the SCJS
Previous surveys of victimisation in Scotland began with the Scottish components of the 1982 and 1988 sweeps of the British Crime Survey (BCS) (held at the Archive under SNs 4368 and 4599) The Scottish element of the 1988 BCS was also known as the Scottish Areas Crime Survey and coverage was limited in those early surveys to the areas south of the Caledonian Canal. From 2012, the BCS has been renamed the Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW) (held under GN 33174).

The first independent Scotland-only crime survey was commissioned by the Scottish Office in 1993 under the title of the Scottish Crime Survey (SCS) and was followed by repeated sweeps in 1996 (both years held together under SN 3813), and again in 2000 (SN 4542) and 2003 (SN 5756). In 2004 the survey underwent both a name change, to the Scottish Crime and Victimisation Survey (SCVS) (SN 5757), and a major methodological change, with a move away from in-home face-to-face interviewing to telephone interviewing. However, the 2006 SCVS (SN 5784) returned to face-to-face interviewing after it was shown that the robustness of the data produced by the 2004 telephone survey could not be substantiated. From 2008-2009, the series name was changed to the present title, the Scottish Crime and Justice Survey, and it moved to a repeated annual cross-sectional schedule based on financial year. From 2012-13 the SCJS moved from annual to biennial survey covering the financial year however, the 2014-15 survey was the last biennial survey and currently the SCJS is conducted on an annual basis. See the documentation for further details.

Special Licence data
From 2012-13 only the Main Questionnaire data are available under standard End User Licence (EUL) agreement. The Victim Form and Self-Completion data are available under Special Licence (SL). The SL data have more restrictive access conditions than those made available under the standard EUL. Prospective users of the SL version will need to complete an extra application form and demonstrate to the data owners exactly why they need access to the additional variables in order to get permission to use that version.

The Scottish Crime and Justice Survey, 2021-2022 contains data from the SCJS Main Questionnaire only and is based on 5,516 face-to-face interviews with adults (aged 16 or over) living in private households in Scotland. The Victim Form questionnaire dataset is not included in this study.

Documentation

Users should note that the User Guide document was written to accompany the 2008/09 study, but the depositor advises that it is the latest version available and should be included here.

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 September of 2025.

Crimes and offences in which a firearm was alleged to have been used or stolen over the past decade at police force and Scotland level.

Source agency: Scottish Government

Designation: National Statistics

Language: English

Alternative title: Recorded Crime and Offences Involving Firearms, Scotland

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

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 October of 2025.

High Level Summary of Statistics Trends for Crime and Justice

Source agency: Scottish Government

Designation: National Statistics

Language: English

Alternative title: Scottish Crime and Justice Survey

Statistical bulletin providing a detailed overview of Scottish fire statistics over the past decade, at a brigade and Scotland level.

Source agency: Scottish Government

Designation: National Statistics

Language: English

Alternative title: Scottish Crime and Justice Survey

The 'Main' data file comprises the main questionnaire data (non-victim form). Respondents in the sample were randomly allocated to one of two sub-samples, A (MainA) and B (MainB). These groups were asked common core questions, including views on social issues, fear of crime, experience of victimisation since 1 January of the survey year and demographics. Those in MainA were asked follow-up questions on: contact with and views of the police, and sentencing and the role of prisons. Those in MainB were asked follow-up questions on: fear of crime; home, personal and vehicle security measures; experience of harassment; violence at work; and views of respondent's locality. The main data file also contains incident counts for each type of crime, and prevalence flags indicating whether the respondent had experienced any incidents of each type of crime, along with the appropriate weighting variables to allow victimisation rates to be calculated and related to household and individual characteristics. The 'Victim' data file includes details from the 'victim form'(s) of incidents of victimisation occurring in Scotland in the relevant survey year (i.e. 1 January-31 December 2002), financial and emotional costs of incident(s), contact with the police and other agencies in relation to the incident, evaluation of such involvement and assessment of desired punishment for offender. This version of the victim form information can be used to calculate victimisation and prevalence rates consistent with the rates calculable in the main data. The Victim file also contains a number of core demographic variables imported from the main data. The 'Self-complete' file contains data from the adult self-completion questionnaire, which covered respondents' experiences of drug use and domestic violence. The 'Young-people' file contains data from the young people's (aged 12-15 years) self-completion questionnaire, covering victimisation when out of the home, including bullying and theft, contacts with and attitudes towards the police, self-reporting of having committed petty crimes, and knowledge of and attitudes towards illegal drugs. Multi-stage stratified random sample Face-to-face interview Self-completion Computer Assisted Personal Interview (CAPI) and Computer Assisted Self Interview (CASI) are used for the main questionnaires/victim forms and self-completion questionnaires respectively. 2003 ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT ADMINISTRATION OF J... ADULTS AGE AGGRESSIVENESS ALCOHOL USE ALCOHOLISM AMPHETAMINES ANXIETY ARREST ASSAULT ASSISTANCE ALARM SY... ATTITUDES BICYCLES BULLYING BURGLARY CANNABIS CHILD ABUSE CHILD BEHAVIOUR CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE CHILDREN COCAINE COMMUNITIES COMMUNITY SERVICE P... COSTS CRIME AND SECURITY CRIME PREVENTION CRIME VICTIMS CRIMINAL DAMAGE CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION CRIMINALS CULTURAL GOODS Crime and law enfor... DETENTION DISABILITIES DISEASES DOGS DOMESTIC RESPONSIBI... DOMESTIC VIOLENCE DRIVING DRIVING LICENCES DRUG ABUSE DRUG ADDICTION DRUG EDUCATION DRUG TRAFFICKING DRUG USE ECONOMIC VALUE ECSTASY DRUG EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND EMOTIONAL STATES EMPLOYMENT ETHNIC CONFLICT ETHNIC GROUPS EVERYDAY LIFE EVIDENCE EXTRACURRICULAR ACT... FACILITIES FAMILIES FAMILY ENVIRONMENT FAMILY MEMBERS FEAR FEAR OF CRIME FINANCIAL COMPENSATION FINANCIAL RESOURCES FINES FRAUD FRIENDS FULL TIME EMPLOYMENT GARAGES GENDER GUNS HARASSMENT HEADS OF HOUSEHOLD HEALTH HEALTH SERVICES HEROIN HOME OWNERSHIP HOUSEHOLD HEAD S OC... HOUSEHOLDS HOUSING HUMAN BEHAVIOUR INCOME INDUSTRIES INFORMATION INJURIES INSURANCE INSURANCE CLAIMS INTERPERSONAL CONFLICT INTERPERSONAL RELAT... INTRUDER ALARM SYSTEMS JUDGMENTS LAW JURIES JUVENILE DELINQUENCY LANDLORDS LEAVING HOME YOUTH LEGAL PROCEDURE LEISURE TIME ACTIVI... LIFE STYLES LIGHTING LIVING CONDITIONS LOCATION LOCKS LSD DRUG MANAGERS MARITAL STATUS MEDICAL CARE MENTAL DISORDERS MONEY MOTOR VEHICLES OFFENCES OFFENSIVE TELEPHONE... OPEN SPACES AND REC... PARENT CHILD RELATI... PARENTAL SUPERVISION PART TIME EMPLOYMENT PEER GROUP RELATION... PERFORMANCE PERSONAL CONTACT PERSONAL FASHION GOODS PERSONAL SAFETY PLACE OF RESIDENCE POCKET MONEY POLICE CORRUPTION POLICE OFFICERS POLICE SERVICES POLICING PRISON SENTENCES PRISON SYSTEM PRISONERS PROBATION PROSECUTION SERVICE PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS PUBLIC INFORMATION PUBLIC TRANSPORT QUALITY OF EDUCATION QUALITY OF LIFE RACIAL PREJUDICE RECREATIONAL FACILI... REFUSE RENTED ACCOMMODATION RESIDENTIAL MOBILITY RETIREMENT RISK ROAD SAFETY ROBBERY SATISFACTION SCHOOL PUNISHMENTS SCHOOLS SECURITY SYSTEMS SEXUAL ASSAULT SEXUAL OFFENCES SHELTERED HOUSING SHOPLIFTING SHOPS SMOKING SOCIAL ACTIVITIES L... SOCIAL CLASS SOCIAL HOUSING SOCIAL SUPPORT SOLVENT ABUSE SPOUSES STREET LIGHTING STUDENTS SUPERVISORS Social behaviour an... TELECOMMUNICATIONS TELEPHONES TENANTS HOME PURCHA... TERMINATION OF SERVICE THEFT THEFT PROTECTION TIED HOUSING TIME TRAFFIC OFFENCES TRANQUILLIZERS TRUANCY UNEMPLOYED UNEMPLOYMENT VAGRANTS VOLUNTARY WELFARE O... WEAPONS WORKPLACE YOUTH YOUTH EMPLOYMENT

This bulletin presents statistics on crimes of homicide recorded by the police in Scotland. It covers all cases of murder and culpable homicide, but excludes cases of causing death by dangerous or reckless driving. Source agency: Scottish Government Designation: National Statistics Language: English Alternative title: Homicide in Scotland