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ONS · offence category: TOTAL SEXUAL OFFENCES (subtotal)

Police-recorded crime (excluding fraud): TOTAL SEXUAL OFFENCES (subtotal)

4 periods to Year ending March 2026

809,978offences

Police-recorded crime (excluding fraud) for TOTAL SEXUAL OFFENCES (subtotal) totalled 809,978 offences in the 4 periods to Year ending March 2026, up 21.1% (141,399) on the 4 periods before.

  1. ONS dataset
  2. Table A5a
  3. TOTAL SEXUAL OFFENCES [note 28]
  4. column “Apr 2025 to Mar 2026”
  5. 217567 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 2026LabourLabourLabourLabourCoalitionCoalitionConservativeConservativeConservativeConservativeLabour0100k200k20052010201520202025Year ending March 2003: 56,652 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2004: 60,412 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2005: 60,924 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2006: 60,287 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2007: 56,042 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2008: 52,166 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2009: 50,185 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2010: 53,006 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2011: 53,940 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2012: 52,760 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2013: 53,599 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2014: 64,232 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2015: 88,576 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2016: 107,326 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2017: 123,058 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2018: 152,842 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2019: 164,393 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2020: 163,346 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2021: 147,742 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2022: 193,098 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2023: 194,595 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2024: 188,702 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2025: 209,114 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2026: 217,567 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