Glasgow City Region

Homeless Deaths

This chart shows the estimated homeless death rate in each of the local authorities in the Glasgow City Region in 2020. The highest rate in GCR was in West Dunbartonshire, which also had the highest rate of any local authority in Scotland. Glasgow’s rate, of 94.8, was lower than those of Inverclyde and South Lanarkshire, and higher than those of Renfrewshire and North Lanarkshire. The rate in Each Dunbartonshire was much lower, at 15.1, and there were no recorded homeless deaths in East Renfrewshire in 2020, so the rate recorded there is 0.

Across Scotland, rates were higher for males than females, and highest in the age group 35-44. The majority of the deaths recorded (59%) were drug related, and 7% were recorded as suicide.

Notes

These figures are experimental. They are derived from counting death registration records where the person was living in temporary accommodation or sleeping rough before they died. An estimate is then added, as this is likely to undercount the true number of deaths of people experiencing homelessness. Rates are then calculated per million population – using the full adult population (aged 15-74), not only the homeless population.

These figures were updated in September 2022.