The article deals with the issues of socio-economic risks and their definition through the criteria of economic security of the region. The criteria for assessing the social security of the region are highlighted; the methodology for processing primary data and their translation into a point assessment is developed and justified.The purpose of this article is to review and assess socio-economic risks and threats in the economic security system of the region on the example of the Kirov region.The objectives of the work are to review the main socio-economic risks and threats of the Kirov region, to study the methodological aspects of assessing socio-economic risks and threats in the economic security system of the region, to analyze and evaluate socio-economic indicators in the economic security system of the Kirov region.The basis of the developed system is the use of statistical data and grouping of indicators based on causal relationships between indicators. Based on the results of the study, an analysis of the economic security of the Kirov region by social groups of factors based on the presented criteria was carried out.