Regional view
Scotland Dashboard
Scotland: 49 indicators across 11 domains; devolved services from Scottish sources (Public Health Scotland, Scottish Government, Police Scotland, Scottish Courts / SPS), compared at the stress-score level.
Scotland Societal Resilience · August 2026
A stress reading from 0 to 100. Higher means more stress; 0 is calm, 100 is crisis.
robust range 44–48 under alternative methods
A single measured reading across eleven national systems. Scotland is under strain, and has risen 1 point since the previous release.
Medium · 47 of 49 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 |
| Rail cancellations (GB) | Infrastructure | 62 | +21 pts | 0.85 |
| Unemployment rate (16+) | Work and Productivity | 67 | +20 pts | 0.90 |
| Chronic loneliness | Trust and Wellbeing | 60 | +20 pts | 0.75 |
| Scotland new-build housing completions | Housing and Household Formation | 77 | +16 pts | 0.85 |
Key improvements
| Metric | Domain | Score | Movement | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scotland outstanding scheduled trials | Rule of Law and Safety | 31 | −53 pts | 0.85 |
| Public sector net borrowing | Fiscal Resilience | 31 | −41 pts | 0.90 |
| Scotland drug-misuse death rate | Population Health | 50 | −35 pts | 0.90 |
| Current budget deficit | Fiscal Resilience | 30 | −34 pts | 0.85 |
| Headroom against fiscal rules | Fiscal Resilience | 32 | −33 pts | 0.70 |
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.
Scotland · measured
11 systems under review, Scotland
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 Scotland-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
Scotland 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
47 of 49 indicators are drawn from verified official sources, each labelled on its metric card. The remaining 2 are provisional placeholders, 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.