ONS · offence category: OTHER CRIMES AGAINST SOCIETY (subtotal)

Police-recorded crime (excluding fraud): OTHER CRIMES AGAINST SOCIETY (subtotal)

4 periods to Year ending March 2026

3,503,040offences

Police-recorded crime (excluding fraud) for OTHER CRIMES AGAINST SOCIETY (subtotal) totalled 3,503,040 offences in the 4 periods to Year ending March 2026, up 4.7% (156,453) on the 4 periods before.

  1. ONS dataset
  2. Table A5a
  3. OTHER CRIMES AGAINST SOCIETY
  4. column “Apr 2025 to Mar 2026
  5. 873255 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 2026LabourLabourLabourLabourCoalitionCoalitionConservativeConservativeConservativeConservativeLabour0250k500k750k20052010201520202025Year ending March 2003: 387,821 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2004: 420,595 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2005: 453,825 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2006: 515,453 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2007: 534,159 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2008: 542,656 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2009: 539,153 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2010: 504,649 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2011: 480,330 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2012: 448,626 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2013: 402,617 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2014: 398,679 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2015: 403,758 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2016: 444,617 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2017: 534,620 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2018: 659,037 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2019: 755,470 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2020: 798,847 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2021: 850,702 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2022: 941,568 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2023: 946,910 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2024: 842,428 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2025: 840,447 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2026: 873,255 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