Official statistics · 6 of 9 measures compare directly
Glasgow City and Somerset compared
Every measure Civometry publishes for both areas, side by side. Each figure is its publisher’s own for the period named beside it, and the difference between the two is stated in the middle. Neither area is called better: which direction counts as better depends on what you are asking, and the page does not decide that for you. Where the two figures are not comparable — a different period, or nothing published for one side — the row says so instead of showing a difference.
Glasgow City
S12000049 · Scotland
Somerset
E06000066 · Avon and Somerset Constabulary
Getting better or worse
0
Civometry calculation on Home Office, ONS, HM Land Registry and MHCLG figures
3 more in Glasgow City
−3
Civometry calculation on Home Office, ONS, HM Land Registry and MHCLG figures
Population
654,330
National Records of Scotland: Mid-year population estimates time series
63,358 more in Glasgow City
590,972
ONS: Population estimates for the UK and constituent countries: historical time series
Median annual pay, full-time employees
£38,125
ONS: ASHE Table 8.7a: annual gross pay by place of residence
£1,846 more in Glasgow City
£36,279
ONS: ASHE Table 8.7a: annual gross pay by place of residence
Average house price
£193,671
HM Land Registry: UK House Price Index: average prices
£87,900 more in Somerset
£281,571
HM Land Registry: UK House Price Index: average prices
All claimants
4.8%
ONS: Claimant count by sex and age (Nomis)
2.2 percentage points higher in Glasgow City
2.6%
ONS: Claimant count by sex and age (Nomis)
All recorded crime and offences
849
Scottish Government: Recorded Crime in Scotland: bulletin tables
Not published for Somerset.
Not published for this area
House price to pay ratio
5.1 years
HM Land Registry: UK House Price Index: average prices
2.7 years more in Somerset
7.8 years
HM Land Registry: UK House Price Index: average prices
Annual rent as a share of pay
No published figure
ONS: Price Index of Private Rents, UK: monthly price statistics
No published figure for Glasgow City.
33.3%
ONS: Price Index of Private Rents, UK: monthly price statistics
Band D council tax as a share of pay
No published figure
MHCLG: Council tax levels set by local authorities in England 2026 to 2027
No published figure for Glasgow City.
7.06%
MHCLG: Council tax levels set by local authorities in England 2026 to 2027
In one sentence
In the latest published figures, population was 654,330 in Glasgow City and 590,972 in Somerset (mid-2025); median annual pay, full-time employees was £38,125 in Glasgow City and £36,279 in Somerset (2025); and average house price was £193,671 in Glasgow City and £281,571 in Somerset (June 2026). (Civometry, from official statistics; each figure is the publisher's own.)
In the latest published figures, population was 654,330 in Glasgow City and 590,972 in Somerset (mid-2025); median annual pay, full-time employees was £38,125 in Glasgow City and £36,279 in Somerset (2025); and average house price was £193,671 in Glasgow City and £281,571 in Somerset (June 2026). (Civometry, from official statistics; each figure is the publisher's own.)
Recorded crime by category
A category-by-category crime comparison needs both areas to have a full, current twelve months in the data.police.uk archive. One of them does not, so it is not shown; the crime rate above, where published, still comes from that archive.
What this comparison rests on
Two figures are only subtracted when they are the same measure over the same period. Populations differ (— and 590,972 residents on the latest estimates used here), so counts are shown alongside rates rather than instead of them. Nothing on this page is weighted, indexed or scored: every difference is one published number minus another, and the rows that cannot be compared say why.