Fall in crime reporting due to perceived inaction
The prevalence of personal, household, farm, and vehicle crime has increased between 2019 and 2025, CSO data shows.
Most notably, 19% of respondents in 2025 said they had been a victim of some form of personal crime compared with 10% in 2019.
Personal crime includes violent and non-violent theft, fraud, and physical assault.
Fraud crime affected 11% of respondents in 2025 compared with 4% in 2019 with card payment fraud accounting for 45% of such crimes.
Crime reporting rates were down in 2025 compared with 2019 with respondents citing the minor nature of the crime and the inability or reluctance of An Garda Síochána to take action as the main reasons for not reporting.
The reporting of personal crime fell from 39% in 2019 to 30% in 2025.
For household crime, the reporting rate fell from 59% to 47%.
Worried
Respondents were increasingly worried about being a victim of crime in 2025 compared with 2019.
For example, the share of people who worried all the time or often more than doubled for fraud crime and internet-related crime (such as identity theft) between 2019 and 2025.
Most people surveyed (85%) felt very safe or fairly safe while walking in their local area, whether alone or accompanied.
Effective
An Garda Síochána were viewed as very effective or quite effective at tackling crime in their local area by 57% of respondents in 2025 and this was down from 68% in 2019.
In 2025, 43% of respondents felt very or quite confident that the wider justice system was bringing people who commit crime to justice in Ireland.
The results show that people aged 18 or over were increasingly worried about being victims of selected crime types in 2025 compared with 2019.
This is evident in the higher percentage of people who reported worrying all the time or often about being a victim alongside a decline in the share of people who indicated that they did not worry at all.
In 2025, 23% of people surveyed worried all the time or often about the possibility of being a victim of physical assault compared with 15% in 2019.
Meanwhile, the share of people who did not worry at all fell from 51% in 2019 to 32% in 2025.
For crimes that could result in damage or loss of property, just under a quarter (24%) of people did not worry at all about victimisation in 2025, a decrease from 42% in 2019.
The share of respondents who worried all the time or often rose from 23% to 33% over the period while those who rarely worried increased from 35% to 43%.
The share of people who worried all the time or often more than doubled for crimes such as internet-related crime and fraud between 2019 and 2025, with fraud related concerns increasing from 20% to 45% and internet-related crimes also rising from 20% to 45%.