Regional view
Northern Ireland Dashboard
UK Societal Resilience · August 2026
A stress reading from 0 to 100. Higher means more stress; 0 is calm, 100 is crisis.
robust range 48–55 under alternative methods
A single measured reading across eleven national systems. The United Kingdom is fragile, and has risen 1 point since the previous release.
Medium · 41 of 42 indicators verified
Release movements
What changed this release
Key deteriorations
| Metric | Domain | Score | Movement | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zero-hours contracts | Work and Productivity | 86 | +21 pts | 0.75 |
| Unemployment rate (16+) | Work and Productivity | 67 | +20 pts | 0.90 |
| Public sector net investment | Fiscal Resilience | 37 | +13 pts | 0.85 |
| NI children in care | Childhood and Social Floor | 76 | +10 pts | 0.85 |
| NI households in temporary accommodation | Housing and Household Formation | 86 | +9 pts | 0.85 |
Key improvements
| Metric | Domain | Score | Movement | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NI new dwellings completed | Housing and Household Formation | 37 | −42 pts | 0.80 |
| Public sector net borrowing | Fiscal Resilience | 31 | −41 pts | 0.90 |
| Current budget deficit | Fiscal Resilience | 30 | −34 pts | 0.85 |
| Headroom against fiscal rules | Fiscal Resilience | 32 | −33 pts | 0.70 |
| Business births minus closures | Work and Productivity | 22 | −26 pts | 0.80 |
Scores are stress readings out of 100; higher means more stress. Most indicators update annually or quarterly, so a large movement usually marks a new official release entering the index, not a change that happened within the month.
Northern Ireland · measured
11 systems under review, Northern Ireland
Each figure is a stress score from 0 to 100. Higher means more stress, so the most stressed systems sit at the top.
Rows link to the UK-level detail page (per-region detail is a later phase). Scores shown are Northern Ireland-specific.
Weighting
What drives the headline figure
The headline is a weighted reading across all systems. This shows which carry the most weight once their stress score and domain weight are combined.
Historical trajectory
Northern Ireland stress over time
Systemic risk
Systemic Risk Penalty
No systemic risk penalty applied this release; fewer than three domains are in the Critical band. The penalty activates when three or more domains simultaneously reach Critical (+5 pts) or Crisis (+10 pts), reflecting the increased probability that concurrent failures become self-reinforcing.
The monthly reading
Follow the number over time
A single reading is a snapshot. The value is in the direction of travel. Once a month we send the new national score, what moved, and the sharpest findings from the data, with every figure traceable to its official source.
Data provenance
41 of 42 indicators are drawn from verified official sources, each labelled on its metric card. The remaining 1 is a provisional placeholder, marked as seed where they appear, because no clean official figure is published yet; placeholders are shown for transparency and are excluded from all scoring.