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Scottish Government · 5 July 2024 – present

Crimes and offences recorded in Scotland per 10,000 people during the Labour 2024– government

Year ending March 2024 → Year ending March 2026 · 2 periods

↑ 4.4%+24 per 10,000 population

Crimes and offences recorded in Scotland per 10,000 people rose by 4.4% over the period, from 544.5 per 10,000 population (Year ending March 2024, the level when the government took office) to 568.5 (Year ending March 2026, the latest available).

  1. Inherited level Year ending March 2024: 544.5
  2. Latest Year ending March 2026: 568.5
  3. method: latest complete period before start / before end

Changes during this period do not by themselves show what the government caused. Statistics reflect many influences, including earlier decisions, the economy and how the data is collected.

Crimes and offences recorded in Scotland per 10,000 people: Year ending March 2017 to Year ending March 2026ConservativeConservativeConservativeConservativeConservativeLabourLabour020040020182020202220242026Year ending March 2017: 554.8 per 10,000 population · published 23 June 2026Year ending March 2018: 564.6 per 10,000 population · published 23 June 2026Year ending March 2019: 566.9 per 10,000 population · published 23 June 2026Year ending March 2020: 564.1 per 10,000 population · published 23 June 2026Year ending March 2021: 553.6 per 10,000 population · published 23 June 2026Year ending March 2022: 529.2 per 10,000 population · published 23 June 2026Year ending March 2023: 531.2 per 10,000 population · published 23 June 2026Year ending March 2024: 544.5 per 10,000 population · published 23 June 2026Year ending March 2025: 539.2 per 10,000 population · published 23 June 2026Year ending March 2026: 568.5 per 10,000 population · published 23 June 2026
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Definition and caveats

Crimes and offences recorded by the police in each Scottish council area per 10,000 residents in the financial year, as published in Table 4 of the Recorded Crime in Scotland bulletin, using National Records of Scotland mid-year population estimates.

Doesn’t measure: Crime that was not reported to or recorded by the police, the risk to any individual, or crime in England, Wales or Northern Ireland. The denominator is the resident population, not the number of people present in an area during the day.