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ONS · offence category: 45 Theft from a vehicle

Police-recorded crime (excluding fraud): 45 Theft from a vehicle

4 periods to Year ending March 2026

733,655offences

Police-recorded crime (excluding fraud) for 45 Theft from a vehicle totalled 733,655 offences in the 4 periods to Year ending March 2026, down 23.7% (227,941) on the 4 periods before.

  1. ONS dataset
  2. Table A5a
  3. Theft from a vehicle [note 40]
  4. column “Apr 2025 to Mar 2026”
  5. 148537 per period
  6. published 23 July 2026

Year ending March 2003 to Year ending March 2026

Police-recorded crime by offence: Year ending March 2003 to Year ending March 2026LabourLabourLabourLabourCoalitionCoalitionConservativeConservativeConservativeConservativeLabour0200k400k600k20052010201520202025Year ending March 2003: 663,679 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2004: 603,256 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2005: 500,360 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2006: 507,239 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2007: 502,651 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2008: 432,412 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2009: 396,976 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2010: 339,170 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2011: 313,467 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2012: 300,377 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2013: 285,047 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2014: 276,366 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2015: 235,823 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2016: 239,236 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2017: 258,488 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2018: 280,300 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2019: 282,523 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2020: 285,424 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2021: 193,186 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2022: 200,463 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2023: 218,389 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2024: 192,987 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2025: 173,742 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2026: 148,537 offences · published 23 July 2026
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What this measures

The number of offences recorded by the police in England and Wales for every offence and offence group in the ONS appendix table, for each year ending March since 2003. Coded rows are individual Home Office offence codes; rows marked (subtotal) are the groups the ONS prints without a code.

Offences whose code was retired or introduced part way through the series (shown as unavailable for those years), or fraud reported to Action Fraud and Report Fraud for the latest year.

Source

Dataset
Crime in England and Wales: Appendix tables
Release
Year ending March 2026, published 23 July 2026 · sha256 9e4a930ec090b4b4…
All values
Police-recorded crime (excluding fraud) by offence category