About this data

Source: ONS, Crime in England and Wales: Annual supplementary tables, July 2026 (Table B1)

• From the Crime Survey for England and Wales. Respondents are asked whether they think crime has gone up, gone down or stayed the same in the past few years.
• An earlier version of the question, asked from 1996 to 2011/12, is in the downloadable data but is not directly comparable.
• No data for 2020/21 and 2021/22, when face-to-face interviews were suspended.

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