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Police Service of Northern Ireland · Police Recorded Crime in Northern Ireland: annual tables

Crimes recorded in Northern Ireland per 1,000 people

Year ending March 2025 Final

50per 1,000 population

Crimes recorded in Northern Ireland per 1,000 people was 50 per 1,000 population in the year ending March 2025, down 7.4% (4) from 54 in the year ending March 2024.

▼ 7.4% · −4 against Year ending March 2024 (year on year)

  1. Police Service of Northern Ireland rate
  2. Year ending March 2025
  3. published 28 November 2025
  4. Table 9.3: Recorded crime per 1,000 population by policing district
  5. row “Northern Ireland”
  6. column “2024/25”
  7. cell value 50

The series is near its lowest recorded level. Rule: within 5% of the lowest value in the 24 periods published here.

Year ending March 2002 to Year ending March 2025

Crimes recorded in Northern Ireland per 1,000 people: Year ending March 2002 to Year ending March 2025LabourLabourLabourLabourCoalitionCoalitionConservativeConservativeConservativeConservativeLabour025507520052010201520202025Year ending March 2002: 80 per 1,000 population · published 28 November 2025Year ending March 2003: 81 per 1,000 population · published 28 November 2025Year ending March 2004: 73 per 1,000 population · published 28 November 2025Year ending March 2005: 68 per 1,000 population · published 28 November 2025Year ending March 2006: 70 per 1,000 population · published 28 November 2025Year ending March 2007: 68 per 1,000 population · published 28 November 2025Year ending March 2008: 61 per 1,000 population · published 28 November 2025Year ending March 2009: 61 per 1,000 population · published 28 November 2025Year ending March 2010: 60 per 1,000 population · published 28 November 2025Year ending March 2011: 57 per 1,000 population · published 28 November 2025Year ending March 2012: 56 per 1,000 population · published 28 November 2025Year ending March 2013: 54 per 1,000 population · published 28 November 2025Year ending March 2014: 55 per 1,000 population · published 28 November 2025Year ending March 2015: 56 per 1,000 population · published 28 November 2025Year ending March 2016: 57 per 1,000 population · published 28 November 2025Year ending March 2017: 53 per 1,000 population · published 28 November 2025Year ending March 2018: 52 per 1,000 population · published 28 November 2025Year ending March 2019: 53 per 1,000 population · published 28 November 2025Year ending March 2020: 56 per 1,000 population · published 28 November 2025Year ending March 2021: 50 per 1,000 population · published 28 November 2025Year ending March 2022: 56 per 1,000 population · published 28 November 2025Year ending March 2023: 58 per 1,000 population · published 28 November 2025Year ending March 2024: 54 per 1,000 population · published 28 November 2025Year ending March 2025: 50 per 1,000 population · published 28 November 2025
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What this measures

Crimes recorded by the Police Service of Northern Ireland per 1,000 residents in each policing district in the financial year, as published in Table 9.3 of the annual recorded crime tables, using NISRA mid-year population estimates.

What this 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 Scotland. The denominator is the resident population, not the number of people present in a district during the day.

Important caveat

Recorded crime in Northern Ireland is counted by the Police Service of Northern Ireland under the Home Office counting rules, but it is a separate series from the England and Wales figures and is never added to them. A recorded crime is one the police recorded, so a change can reflect reporting and recording as much as crime itself. Crimes are counted where the incident happened, not where anyone involved lives. Policing districts have had their present boundaries since the Review of Public Administration took effect in April 2015; the PSNI restates the district series back to 2001/02 on those boundaries and states that the earlier years cannot be placed in them, so there is no district figure before 2001/02. Rates per 1,000 are the PSNI's own, using NISRA mid-year population estimates. Fraud recorded by Action Fraud rather than by the PSNI is counted differently over the series; the workbook sets that out in Table 6.1.

Revision history

No period of this series has been revised since it was first ingested here. Revisions are recorded automatically when a later release publishes a different figure for the same period.

Source

Publisher
Police Service of Northern Ireland
Publication
Police Recorded Crime in Northern Ireland: annual tables
Release
Annual trends in police recorded crime, 1998/99 to 2024/25, published 28 November 2025
Source file
Police_Recorded_Crime_in_Northern_Ireland_1998-99_to_2024-25.xlsx
File SHA-256
ebfc71279d8b122ffae865cee44ba623ca05c35a8ebdb6d0b804a47b003e4ee6
Retrieved
3 September 2026
Sheet
Table 9.3
Table
Table 9.3: Recorded crime per 1,000 population by policing district
Row
Northern Ireland
Column
2024/25
Cell value
50
Geography
N92000002
Unit
per 1,000 population
API
/api/metrics/recorded_crime_northern_ireland_per_1000 · /series · /vintages

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Government periods

Change during each government, from the level inherited to the last complete period before it left office. Describes the period; does not attribute cause.

Conservative 2019–202453Year ending March 201954Year ending March 2024↑ 1.9%
Conservative 2017–201953Year ending March 201753Year ending March 2019→ 0.0%
Conservative 2015–201756Year ending March 201553Year ending March 2017↓ 5.4%
Coalition 2010–201560Year ending March 201056Year ending March 2015↓ 6.7%
Labour 2005–201068Year ending March 200560Year ending March 2010↓ 11.8%

Full comparison with chart

Release
Annual trends in police recorded crime, 1998/99 to 2024/25 · publication page
Last updated
28 November 2025
Next release expected
Not yet announced (estimated from the usual cadence)