Stirling Ward Overall Crime Map
We have analysed the latest crime data published by Scottish Police for the period up to the end of 2025. In the Stirling area the total number of recorded crimes in the eight council Wards was 7,183. Excluding Road Traffic crimes from the total, some 5,021 crimes were recorded. See Table 1 (total recorded crime) and Figure 2 (crimes per 1000 population). Based on total crime rate per 1000 population in each ward we found the following:
Low Crime Rate Areas:
Dunblane and Bridge of Allan :: Forth and Endrick are in the lowest crime rate band (per 1000 population).
High Crime Rate Areas:
Stirling North is in the highest crime rate band (per 1000 population).
The details for wards represented above and all the other wards in Stirling are presented in Table 4 (recorded crime per 100 population in each Ward) and on a map of the local authority area (Figure 1).
For those wishing to download a comprehensive data file for the authority see the section below: downloads. Similar data for each of the Scottish Local Authorities can be found using the Scotland Reported Crime Summary page.
Maps and Data Tables
The following section contains tables showing the recorded crimes from 2020 to 2025, data source information and methods. It includes on this page:
- Crime map for Stirling showing for each ward the relative crimes per 1000 population (Figure 1)
- Recorded crime count by crime classification group for six years (Table 1)
- Recorded crime per 1000 population by crime classification group for six years (Table 2)
- Recorded crime for six years count by ward (Table 3)
- Recorded crime per 1000 ward population for six years (Table 4)
- Recorded crime count by classification group for each ward (Table 5)
- Recorded crime count per 1000 population by classification group for each ward (Table 6)
- Percentage of Reported Crime for Stirling to Allocated as Unknown Ward (Table 7)
Figure 1: Stirling Council Wards Crime Map showing crimes per 1000 population in 2025
Recorded crime rates per 1000 population for the whole of Scotland at Local authority Ward level were calculated then ranked into 5 bands see legend; blue/purple, band 1 (lowest rate per 1000); light green, band 2; lemon, band 3; pale orange, band 4; deep orange, band 5 (the highest crime rate per 1000). If you click on the map the crimes per 1000 population for the past five years will be revealed in the pop-up. You can zoom in using the ± navigation aid on the map and drag the map around to centre an area of interest.
Summary Data Tables For Each Crime Group In Stirling
Table 1: Recorded Crimes By Category
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Table 2: Recorded Crimes Per 1000 Popn. By Category
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Summary Data For Each Ward In Stirling
The following section contains tables showing the recorded crimes for each ward from year 2019 to 2024, subdivied by the Crime category (Group_Description). Note for mobile users fewer years are displayed due to screen space constraints. All of the data is included in the file download below.
Table 3: Recorded Crimes By Ward All Categories.
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Table 4: Recorded Crimes Per 1000 Popn. By Ward All Categories.
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Table 5: Recorded Crimes By Ward Split By Category.
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Table 6: Recorded Crimes Per 1000 Popn. By Ward and Split By Category.
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Reporting of Recorded Crime Data Issues.
There have been issues with the allocation of recorded crimes to Wards by the Police for this local authority especially in the earlier years. During the period 2020 to 2024 the percent of crimes that were recorded as Ward unknown reached 13.2%. By 2025 this had dropped to an acceptable level of 0.9% which means that it is reasonable to compare of crime levels between Wards for this year. See Table 7.
Table 7: Percentage of Reported Crime for Stirling to Allocated as Unknown Ward
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Stirling Council Wards Recorded Crime Downloads
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Data Sources
Scottish Crime Data is available on the police website via https://www.scotland.police.uk/about-us/how-we-do-it/crime-data.
Shapefiles for UK Council Wards were obtained from the Ordnance Survey Data Hub (https://osdatahub.os.uk/ login required)
Ward population data was based on estimates for 2024 and no reliable source could be found for each year see https://www.citypopulation.de/en/uk/scotland/wards/.
Methods in Brief
- Multiple annual crime data files (provided as fiscal years) were combined and calendar years were allocated to the data.
- Crime Rate Bands were allocated by splitting the ward crime rate per 1000 population into five equal sized bands based on ranks.
- Some remapping of wards was carried out since the police data in a few cases did not map precisely to ward codes. E.g. the police data combined Arran and Ardrossan (wards in North Ayrshire LA. Some ward areas are missing from the maps for the Hebridean Isles since the reported areas did not match to ward areas in the published map wards for the Hebridean Isles.
- Maps were prepared using Python with Folium and Geopandas modules
- In the generation of the data for each local authority from the original seven police crime data files a further 712 files were produced: 98 data files (.csv) including some for downloads; 292 tables for the website (.svg); 290 maps and machine readable tables (.html) for visually impaired readers; and 32 web pages containing the html content for each local authority.