About this data

Source: ONS, Police recorded crime, Home Office Data Hub, year ending June 2026

• Police recorded crime counts offences reported to and recorded by the 43 police forces in England and Wales and British Transport Police.
• Changes in recording practice affect the trends. Recording improved substantially after a 2014 inspection found widespread under-recording, which pushed up recorded violence and sexual offences in particular. ONS does not consider police recorded crime a reliable measure of trends in most crime types.
• Figures are for years ending March (e.g. April 2024 to March 2025), plus the latest year to June 2026.
• Homicide counts are as initially recorded by the police and can include multiple victims of a single incident (for example, the Manchester Arena attack in 2017).
• Burglary combines domestic and non-domestic burglary (residential and non-residential from April 2017).

This chart appears in Crime.