About this data

Source: ONS, Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW), year ending June 2026; Home Office historical recorded crime; ONS, Police recorded crime, Home Office Data Hub, year ending June 2026

• The two measures cover different things, so they are not expected to match. The survey captures crimes that were never reported to the police, but leaves out crimes against businesses, crimes with no direct victim and homicide. Police figures include these, but only count crimes that were reported and recorded.
• The police series has breaks in 1998 (new counting rules) and 2002 (the National Crime Recording Standard), both of which increased the number of crimes recorded.
• Face-to-face interviews were suspended during the pandemic, so there are no comparable estimates for April 2020 to March 2022.
• Before 2001 the survey covered calendar years and was not run every year. From 2001/02 it covers financial years (April to March); the latest point is the year to June 2026.

This chart appears in Crime.