Borrowing figures for Fife, from Borrowing Data and the Office for National Statistics.
In 2024, 277,000 adults in Fife held at least one credit or loan product.
Source: Local borrowing figures, Borrowing Data, 2024
Adults aged 18 and over; held now or in the previous 12 months. Includes regulated and unregulated credit.
In 2024, 228,000 adults in Fife held a credit card.
Source: Local borrowing figures, Borrowing Data, 2024
Adults aged 18 and over; held now or in the previous 12 months.
In 2024, 21 per cent of adults in Fife were overdrawn on a current account (now or in the previous 12 months).
Source: Local borrowing figures, Borrowing Data, 2024
Adults aged 18 and over; overdrawn on a current account now or in the previous 12 months.
In 2024, 77,000 adults in Fife had a residential mortgage on the property they lived in.
Source: Local borrowing figures, Borrowing Data, 2024
Adults aged 18 and over; residential mortgage on the property they live in.
In 2024, 24 per cent of adults in Fife used deferred payment credit (unregulated buy now, pay later) in the previous 12 months.
Source: Local borrowing figures, Borrowing Data, 2024
Adults aged 18 and over; unregulated buy now, pay later, called deferred payment credit in the survey, used in the previous 12 months.
In 2024, 6.9 per cent of adults in Fife held high-cost credit (now or in the previous 12 months).
Source: Local borrowing figures, Borrowing Data, 2024
Adults aged 18 and over; held now or in the previous 12 months. Covers home-collected, logbook, pawnbroking, payday, rent-to-own, short-term instalment and guarantor loans.
In 2024, 25 per cent of adults in Fife had low financial resilience.
Source: Local borrowing figures, Borrowing Data, 2024
Adults aged 18 and over; in financial difficulty, heavily burdened by bills or credit commitments, or with low savings.
In 2024, 25,100 adults in Fife were in financial difficulty, having missed domestic bills or credit commitments in three or more of the previous six months.
Source: Local borrowing figures, Borrowing Data, 2024
Adults aged 18 and over; missed domestic bills or credit commitments in three or more of the previous six months.
The estimated population aged 16 and over in Fife was 315,047 at mid-2025.
Source: Population estimates - local authority based by single year of age (Nomis NM_2002_1), mid-year estimates, Office for National Statistics, 30 June 2025
ONS mid-2025 population estimates (published 29 July 2026 for England and Wales; Scotland and Northern Ireland as carried in the same Nomis table), local authority boundaries as of April 2023, usual residents, as returned by the Nomis 'Aged 16+' category.
In 2024, 277,000 adults in Fife held at least one credit or loan product. In 2024, 228,000 adults in Fife held a credit card. In 2024, 21 per cent of adults in Fife were overdrawn on a current account (now or in the previous 12 months).
In 2024, 277,000 adults in Fife held at least one credit or loan product.
In 2024, 228,000 adults in Fife held a credit card.
In 2024, 21 per cent of adults in Fife were overdrawn on a current account (now or in the previous 12 months).