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Safety in Dunblane · Scottish Government, SIMD

Recorded crime in the Stirling council area is 21% below Scotland’s rate

Police Scotland doesn’t publish crimes street by street, so Dunblane has no Safety Grade and no overall grade until the 2026 Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation brings neighbourhood crime figures. What Scotland does publish: crime for the whole Stirling council area (449 crimes per 10,000 people in 2025-26), and how Dunblane’s own neighbourhoods rank for crime.

Crimes, Stirling
449
per 10,000 people, 2025-26
Scotland 569
Violence
129
non-sexual violent crimes per 10,000
Scotland 136
Cleared up
56%
of recorded crimes, 2025-26
Scotland 57%
SIMD crimes in Dunblane
102
per 10,000 residents, 2017/18
Scotland 276
What stands out · In brief

What stands out about safety in Dunblane

Crime down over ten years

Recorded crime across the Stirling council area went from 474 to 449 per 10,000 people between 2016-17 and 2025-26; across Scotland it moved +3%. Ten years ↓

Few crime-deprived neighbourhoods

0% of Dunblane’s residents live in the fifth of Scotland’s small areas with the most crime on SIMD 2020, and 51% in the fifth with the least. Its rate of SIMD crimes, 102 per 10,000 in 2017/18, is 63% below Scotland’s. Neighbourhood ranks ↓

Written from the Scottish Government’s recorded crime and SIMD figures on this page.

Neighbourhoods · Scotland-wide rank

1 in 4 Dunblane residents lives in one of Scotland’s lowest-crime neighbourhoods

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10%4
10%5
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26%9
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Higher crimeLower crime

80% of residents live in the lowest-crime 30% of Scotland’s neighbourhoods, and 0% in the highest-crime 20%. Dunblane counted 102 SIMD crimes per 10,000 residents in 2017/18, 63% below Scotland’s 276; three years before, 123 (-17%, Scotland -9%).

Scottish Government, SIMD 2020v2 crime domain and SIMD crime indicators (crimes of violence, sexual crimes, domestic housebreaking, vandalism, drugs offences and common assault, 2014/15 and 2017/18). Residents from Scotland’s Census 2022 output areas.

Dunblane’s residents by the crime decile of their small area (2011 data zone, about 800 people) in the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation 2020 (crime domain), where 1 is the highest-crime 10% of Scotland’s 6,976 data zones and 10 the lowest.

Towns its size

Dunblane is 19th of 157 Scottish towns of 4,411 to 16,534

#TownPeopleSIMD crimes per 10,000In the most crime-deprived fifth
1Westhill Aberdeenshire11,778520%
2Kingswells Aberdeen City4,776560%
…
16Clarkston East Renfrewshire9,4861000%
17Portlethen Aberdeenshire8,9651010%
18Carnoustie Angus11,3731020%
19Dunblane Stirling8,7971020%
20Linlithgow West Lothian12,5221020%
21Dunbar East Lothian10,7461040%
22Stepps North Lanarkshire7,6431080%
…
156Buckhaven Fife4,41353771%
157Stranraer Dumfries and Galloway9,72956545%

SIMD crimes per 10,000 residents in 2017/18, counting from the fewest: the towns either side of Dunblane, and the ends of the list. Described, not graded.

By type

What police recorded in the Stirling council area in 2025-26

Common assault107
Vandalism51
Shoplifting42
Fraud25
Housebreaking11
Car theft8
Drug supply6
Domestic abuse5
Serious assault3
Robbery3
Violent & sexualHomes, cars & damageOtherScotland

Serious assault and shoplifting sit below Scotland’s rate.

Show every crime group as a table
GroupRecordedPer 10,000Scotland
Non-sexual crimes of violence1,213129136
Sexual crimes2672830
Crimes of dishonesty (theft, housebreaking, fraud)1,404149213
Damage and reckless behaviour (vandalism, fire-raising)5555969
Crimes against society (drugs, weapons, justice)79384121
Antisocial offences (disorder, threatening behaviour)8168793

Scottish Government, Recorded Crime in Scotland 2025-26: crimes and offences by council area. Groups 1 to 5 are crimes; group 6, antisocial offences, is offences.

Per 10,000 people. The tick on each bar is Scotland’s rate. Every town in the council area shares these figures.

Ten years · yearly

Recorded crime down 5% since 2016-17

Scottish Government, Recorded Crime in Scotland, 2016-17 to the newest year. Since April 2019 violence includes the new crime of domestic abuse under the Domestic Abuse (Scotland) Act 2018.

Per 10,000 people each year, the Stirling council area against Scotland. 2016-17 to 2025-26: all crimes -5% (Scotland +3%), violence +15%.

Cleared up

Police in the Stirling council area clear up crime about as often as across Scotland

All crimes56%
Violence67%
Sexual crimes66%
Dishonesty33%
Damage37%
Against society88%
Violent & sexualHomes, cars & damageOtherScotland

Violence and drugs crimes are cleared up most often, because they are usually recorded with a suspect in view; housebreaking, theft and vandalism least.

Scottish Government, Recorded Crime in Scotland 2025-26: crime clear-up rates by council area.

Share of crimes recorded in 2025-26 that were cleared up: a suspect identified and enough evidence to report them to the procurator fiscal. The tick is Scotland.

1,000 people · one year

For every 1,000 people in the Stirling council area, about 16 violent or sexual crimes in 2025-26

Violent & sexualHousebreaking, car theft & damageOther theft & fraud
1,480
violent and sexual crimes, Stirling, 2025-26
728
housebreaking, car theft & damage
1,231
other theft & fraud
37
of the three, per 1,000

A crime isn’t a victim: one person can suffer several, and crimes in a city centre often involve visitors rather than residents.

And about 8 housebreakings, car thefts or acts of vandalism and fire-raising, plus 13 other thefts and frauds. Each dot is one person; each coloured dot is one recorded crime. These are council-wide figures: every town in the Stirling council area shares them.

On the roads

No one died in a collision on Dunblane’s roads in 2021–2025

Police recorded 8 collisions with injuries inside Dunblane in five years. 1 person was killed or seriously injured: 0 on foot and 0 on a bicycle.

Most UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people (81%) had no road deaths in these five years, and Dunblane is one of them.

Counting serious injuries too, a town of Dunblane’s size at the median for UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people would see about 7 people killed or seriously injured in five years; Dunblane had 1.

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people killed, 2021–2025
1
killed or seriously injured
0
of them on foot
0
of them on a bicycle

Casualties are counted where the collision happened, not where people lived: a main road through town adds through-traffic, and residents’ own risk on roads elsewhere isn’t here. Seriously injured uses the Department for Transport’s adjusted figures, which even out the police forces’ different ways of recording injuries; the towns its size are England and Wales’s. There’s no national rate here: more than two thirds of Scotland’s road deaths (70%) happen outside every town’s locality boundary. Source: DfT road casualty statistics (STATS19), 2021–2025.

Collisions police recorded inside Dunblane’s locality, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.

Neighbours

Crime in the places around Dunblane

Fewest quarterSecondThirdMost SIMD crime
TownPeopleSIMD crimes per 10,000Most crime-deprived fifth
Dunblane8,7971020%
Bridge of Allan4,744690%
Menstrie2,834920%
Stirling38,59034332%
Tullibody8,51526415%
Alva4,8202180%
Fallin2,7692930%
Bannockburn6,5872250%

Dunblane counted more SIMD crime per resident than 2 of its 7 neighbours. Bridge of Allan, 2.8 miles away, counted 69 per 10,000, against Dunblane’s 102.

SIMD crimes per 10,000 residents in 2017/18. The map colours each town by the quarter of Scotland’s towns it falls in; they are not grades. Tap a town for its safety page.

How to read these numbers

What this data can and can’t tell you

  • Council areas, not towns. Recorded crime and clear-up rates are published for each of Scotland’s 32 council areas, so every town in the Stirling council area shares them. A city centre and a quiet village in the same council show the same figures.
  • SIMD crime is town-level, but old. The Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation counts selected crimes (violence, sexual crimes, domestic housebreaking, vandalism, drugs offences and common assault) in each small area. SIMD 2020 uses crimes from 2017/18; SIMD 2026, due at the end of 2026, will bring newer figures; we plan to grade Scottish safety on them.
  • Not a grade. Nothing on this page is graded. The towns-its-size ranking and the neighbours’ colours describe SIMD crime rates; they aren’t a Safety Grade and don’t feed one.
  • Recorded, not experienced. Recorded crime is what the police record. It moves with reporting and policing as well as with crime; the Scottish Crime and Justice Survey asks people directly, for Scotland as a whole.

Questions about safety in Dunblane

Is Dunblane safe?

Police Scotland recorded 449 crimes per 10,000 people across the Stirling council area in 2025-26, 21% below Scotland’s 569. Within Dunblane, the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation counted 102 of its selected crimes per 10,000 residents in 2017/18, against 276 across Scotland; 0% of residents live in the fifth of Scotland’s neighbourhoods with the most crime. Police Scotland doesn’t publish street-level crime, so Dunblane has no Safety Grade.

How many crimes are solved in the Stirling council area?

56% of crimes recorded in 2025-26 were cleared up (someone was identified and there was enough evidence to report them to the procurator fiscal), against 57% across Scotland.

Why doesn’t Dunblane have a Safety Grade?

Our Safety Grade counts crimes inside each town’s boundary. Police Scotland doesn’t publish crimes by location for reuse, so Scottish towns can’t be measured the same way. The 2026 Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation will bring newer neighbourhood crime figures.

Sources: Scottish Government, Recorded Crime in Scotland (crimes, offences and clear-up rates by council area, 2016-17 to 2025-26); Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation 2020v2 crime domain and SIMD crime indicators (2014/15, 2017/18), 2011 data zones with Census 2022 residents · Department for Transport road casualty statistics (STATS19), collisions 2021–2025, points inside the NRS 2022 locality boundary · TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranked against UK towns only. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

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